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. <div>On 6/25/06, cesera < <a href="mailto:ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org">ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- 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