[MPlayer-users] Okay, I am lost here....

[Andrew Konosky]

I posted here earlier today about encoding a DVD, but I am getting 
really confused on what I am supposed to do here, and what programs I am 
supposed to use. I want to Encode my DVD into a VCD compatible format 
and burn it to a CD-R.

This is what I have done so far, but I don't know it it is right...

Using Mencoder and AcidRip, I did a 2 pass Mpeg4 layer (DivX) encoding 
of a DVD. For video settings, I used vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv:vqmin=2, a 
variable bitrate, and I kept the widescreen ascpet ratio the same and 
used a 640x275 resolution so that the bits/pixel box in AcidRip wasn't 
red (I kind of guessed that red was bad, so i changed resolution until 
it was 'good'...). For audio, I used 256kbps mp3 as the compression. 
Since the movie was long, I created 2 files, and it ended up taking 
AMOST 4 HOURS to encode after making 2 passes on each of the two blocks! 
I don't know if thats normal or not, but it took a LONG time....

Now I have two ~650mb files, part1.avi and part2.avi and they are good 
quality widescreen videos. I want to put these onto a VCD and hopefully 
play them in my DVD player (If it supports VCD...).

K3B only supports MPEG files, so I need and .mpg file rather than the 
.avi files that I have now. I tried using mjpegtools to convert it, and 
I followed the instructions, but the audio won't even encode and the 
video seems to be encoding, but when I play the file its just a blank 
green screen. VCDimager also needs an mpeg file, so I am lost as to what 
I do? AcipRip has both avi and mpg as an otption, but I can't get the 
encoding to work in mpeg. I already have the avi files, but I can't 
figure out how to convert them to mpeg. I tried encode2mpeg, but I don't 
know how to use it.

This is how I thought I was supposed to create a VCD. Please correct me 
where I'm wrong.

1.) Rip DVD to MPEG1,2, or 4
2.) Use MJPEG tools to create VCD compatible MPEG1
3.) Use VCDimager to create the VCD image
4.) Burn the VCD image to a CD-R

I just got home from work and I'm real tired, so I apologize if I'm not 
making sense or if I've missed something obvious. Can someone help me out?