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Way back in the early 2000s before DVD burners were cheap my buddy downloaded what appeared to be a handicam rip of the Fellowship Of The Ring off limewire (or
by bonton89 2y ago
Way back in the early 2000s before DVD burners were cheap my buddy downloaded what appeared to be a handicam rip of the Fellowship Of The Ring off limewire (or kazaa or whatever was popular at the time) and burned it on 7-8 or 8 CD-Rs which we could watch on his DVD player in the living room. The quality was poor but watchable, but I think this had more to do with the clandestine source than the medium. He had above average computer literacy but probably just used a common program in a way I've never used before to do this. DVD burners became cheaper later and I never saw or thought much about this stunt again.
- rbanffy 2y agoVideo CDs employ MPEG encoding. Resolution is 320x240, IIRC, and bandwidth is the same as an audio CD.
- Symbiote 2y agoThat would be a Video CD, which has MPEG data lille a DVD, but lower capacity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_CD
- MBCook 2y agoI believe they were MPEG-1 instead of the MPEG-2 used in DVDs. I seem to remember reading that they were far more popular in Asia. There were add-ons for the PlayStation and the Saturn to be able to play them. The only time I ever remember seeing them were on a spinning bargain rack thing at the front of CompUSA in the mid to late 90s with things I had never heard of on them. I don’t remember what, maybe foreign movies or something.
- prmoustache 2y agoAt the time I owned a tv capture card and recorded a number of super video cds (SVCD) encoded in MPEG-2. The good thing is it was better quality than VHS and DVD while still using cheap CDR and it was readable by most DVD players. The bad thing is you would only store ~30-40min in a single disc, so sometimes multiple discs were needed. But it was still significantly cheaper than buying a dvd recorder and DVDR medias.