Cucusoft Mpeg to DVD Burner 3.21 - User Guide and FAQ

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Frequently Asked Questions - Cucusoft Mpeg to DVD Burner

1. What is 'AVI to VCD / DVD'?
   'AVI to VCD / DVD' is a Windows based program to encode avi files to CD / DVD / SVCD compliant mpeg files for recording to VCD with a VCD creation program. The resulting VCD/DVD/SVCD can be played on VCD players, and many DVD players.
   
   
2. I made a VCD, but my DVD player cannot play it.
   Not all DVD players can play VCDs. Some DVD players that can play commercially stamped "silver" VCD's cannot play VCD's on CD-R. You need to try both CD-R and CD-RW media. I have found that even different brands of CD-RW get different results.
   
   
3. Why is 'AVI to VCD / DVD' so slow?
   Depending on your computer system, you may experience anywhere from 1 to 10 frames (more or less) encoded per second. Some systems will be slower, some faster. This means it might easily take from 3 to 30 hours to encode 1 hour of video to mpeg. Mpeg encoding is a computationally intensive, and slow, process. The characteristics of the video also have an effect. If your video is 720x480, for example, 'AVI to VCD / DVD' needs to resize each frame to 352x240 (or 352x288 for PAL), which adds to the time required. Some codecs are also slower than others.
   
   
4. When I encode a video the resulting mpeg is larger than the source?
   The resulting mpeg will always be 176400 bytes x # of seconds in source video. This is a result of the VCD standard
   
   
5. When I encode a screen capture sequence, or a computer generated animation, the resulting mpeg is not very clear?
   Mpeg was intended to compress real world video images, not artificial computer generated images