Merging VCDs to DVD

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

or you can do

# cat /dev/cdrom > dvd.iso
# cat /dev/cdrom1 >> dvd.iso
# cat /dev/cdrom2 >> dvd.iso
# sync

where cdrom1 and cdrom2 are different disk.

On 6/25/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Read about KVCD. It's a cool format that can put an entire movie into a
> single CD-R, with 30-40% improved quality than normal VCD.
>
>
> On 6/25/06, cesera < ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have a series of ten VCDs that I would like to merge onto DVD. My
> > thinking was that a CD holds about 700MB of data, a DVD about 4Gb, so I
> > should be able to put 5 VCDs onto a DVD. However I have been trying to
> > do this now for 3 days and I am still no further. I have played with
> > vcdxrip, ffmpeg, mpeg2enc, (q)dvdauthor and several other tools and I
> > have no luck.
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone got an idea on how to do this? I have found several windows
> > tutorials on this subject, so it should be possible, but I don't seem
> > to be able to do it.
> >
> >
> >
> > My problem always ends with dvdauthor, no matter what I do I keep
> > getting hunderds of lines that say:
> >
> >
> >
> > WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU...
> >
> >
> >
> > My last attempted to insert the VOBUs was something like this:
> >
> >
> > Code:
> > --------------------
> >     ffmpeg -i fromvcdxrip.mpg -target ntsc-svcd -s 352x240 -r 29.97 - |
> > mpeg2dec -s -o pgmpipe | pgmtoy4m -i p | mpeg2enc -f 8 -n p -v 0 -o
> > myvcd1.mpg
> > --------------------
> >
> >
> > I thought that the '-f 8' option in mpeg2enc would insert the VOBUs,
> > but no such luck.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am probably trying this the hard way, does anyone know of a better
> > way to achieve what I am trying, ie. reduce 5 VCDs to 1 DVD? (I don't
> > need a high picture quality, I am starting with the VCDs so I am happy
> > with that quality, I just would like to have a lot less disks.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > cesera
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> gawk; grep; unzip; touch; strip; init, uncompress, gasp; finger; find,
> route, whereis, which, mount; fsck; nice, more; yes; gasp; warnquota,
> umount; head, halt, renice, restore, touch, whereis, which, route, mount,
> more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping, bashbug, dump, make clean; sleep
>



-- 
gawk; grep; unzip; touch; strip; init, uncompress, gasp; finger; find,
route, whereis, which, mount; fsck; nice, more; yes; gasp; warnquota,
umount; head, halt, renice, restore, touch, whereis, which, route, mount,
more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping, bashbug, dump, make clean; sleep
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