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Title: DVD Conversion Guide Description: A guide that covers background information and links about converting your DVD movies to other formats, such as VCD, SVCD, MiniDVD and DivX Author/Publisher: Digital Digest Ease of use: Not Rated Page Viewed: 178735 times	Printer Friendly Version User Rating: No ratings recorded - Vote Now User Comments: Post Your Comments
Page Select: Page 1: Introduction Page 2: Choose your format Page 3: DivX MPEG-4 Page 4: VideoCD MPEG-1 Page 5: Super VideoCDs MPEG-2 Page 6: MiniDVDs MPEG-2 Page 7: More Help

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Page 6 of 7: MiniDVDs MPEG-2

MiniDVD is an unofficial format which basically allows you to have DVD content (complete with interactivity) on a CD media. Of course, this means that you'll only have a limited amount of video per CD (around 15 minutes of DVD quality video), but may be perfect for your DVD trailer collection or DVD music videos. You can also choose to downgrade the quality by decreasing the resolution/bitrate, and hence increase the amount of video per CD. And with increasing popularity, some new standalone DVD players will also now support this format (please refer to the "How to playback MiniDVDs" section for more information).




STATS




Below are some useful statistics : Resolution : PAL - 720x576 ; NTSC - 720x480 Bitrate : 650 MB stores up to 15-20 minutes Quality : VIDEO - DVD quality ; AUDIO - DVD quality (Dolby Digital AC3)




CONVERSION AND BURNING PROCESS



Below are some guides for the conversion and burning process :




Conversion Tools

DivX Tools	Many DivX tools such as DVD2AVI can also be helful for the MiniDVD conversion process
DVD Tools	Many DVD tools such as DV-Tool, ReMPEG2, VOB Merge, can also be helful for the MiniDVD conversion process





Guides on this site

Odedia's MiniDVD Guide

A step by step guide on DVD to MiniDVD (with downgraded video quality) conversion





Guides not on this site

MiniDVD Tutorial	A Brazilian Portuguese MiniDVD guide
Robshot's Creative Corner	Contains guides for DVD to SVCD and MiniDVD conversion





HOW TO PLAYBACK MiniDVDs



Below are some players for MiniDVDs




Players

DVD Decoders Cards	Some decoder cards, like the Hollywood+, can also support the playback of MiniDVDs
Software DVD Players	Most software DVD players, except PowerDVD, can playback MiniDVDs.
Standalone DVD players	A few DVD players now supports MiniDVD playback - for more information, please refer to Robshot.com

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Page 1: Introduction Page 2: Choose your format Page 3: DivX MPEG-4 Page 4: VideoCD MPEG-1 Page 5: Super VideoCDs MPEG-2 Page 6: MiniDVDs MPEG-2 <-- Page 7: More Help

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