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[silverthunder]

Yeah, so, I spent most of yesterday trying to create VCDs that work. I got some info from kasra_c on how to do this, and it works! Except it had no sound... But, she told me how to fix that.

It works fine with my Digimon episodes. I can make VCDs! Of course, because I'm using the free version, it'll only let me put two files of 200MB or less on each VCD... but that's no big deal. It means one episode per VCD, or two if I can really squish them down.

And with Hikaru no Go... the sound was skewed. I think I've found something to make that work better, but we'll have to experiment a bit and see, first.

Needless to say, I kind of lost track of time yesterday with this... I didn't notice it was quarter to four until my mother pointed out that I'd better go or I'd be late.

Lucky I had my bellydancing stuff ready.

And... I work tonight. Bleh. And tomorrow night. Eck. And Sunday morning.

I can't wait until that's all over. Ah well...

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[kasra-c.livejournal.com]

Well, I went and actually looked at the site, and sure enough, he no longer offers a download of the freeware version. However, other people do, even if their websites aren't in a language I can read I can at least navigate to the download button. ^_~

http://www.fr-an.de/vcdeasy/inst115/

I just downloaded it and installed it myself on my new PC, so it's definitely a legit version. Try it out and see if it works properly for you as well.

Thanks for the tip about the corrupted sound files - I seem to recall reading a couple of years back that it had something to do with the sound being encoded as an mp3. At least, that was what happened when you tried playing improperly-encoded DivX files on a Mac, and they had a cute little "DivX Doctor" app that re-encoded the audio for you. It only worked about 75% of the time, granted... but it sounds like this'll work better in the future. Thank you!

[silverthunder]

No problem! And thanks for the tip about the free version of VCDEasy - actually, it's funny, because I went looking a couple of minutes ago and found the version myself, but on a different site. Still in a foreign language, though.

I'll test it out when I've got files to burn, and see if it works!

I'm very excited about this - my first *working* VCD. I'll be ecstatic if I can make it work.