Ok, I rip all of my DVD movies onto my computer using #1 DVD Ripper. This program rips them into a large .mpeg file on my hard drive. With this file, I usually open up Windows Media Encoder and make it a smaller, close to about 240MB file, to fit on my pocket pc's screen and play through Windows Media Player. As a side note, I am about to start doing this differently, I want to try out PocketDivxEncoder and BetaPlayer for the Pocket PC movies. But, what I want to do, is to take this large mpeg file and use Windows Media Encoder to make it somewhere closer to 600-650MB and then burn this to a CD-R or CD-RW and then be able to play it on my DVD player. I want to do this because sometimes I let people borrow DVDs and CDs and they tend to get scratched . What type of program would I need to use to make it able to play the CD's movie on my DVD player? Is it called a VCD (Video CD)? Is that what i need to make for it to be able to play on my DVD player?
Just wondering, and interested in starting to do this to back up my DVDs.

Thanks

-Andybrown-

A VCD is what you would make. However, it will depend on your friend's DVD player as to whether they will play on that particular player. The player has to support that kind of disc just like not all DVD players will play CDs with MP3s burnt on them.

  

What kind of program would I use to make a VCD?

Any of your cd burning programs. I never used the feature myself, but Roxio CD Creator had the option although it was buggy. A lot of people swear by Nero. I use Sonic RecordNow and it works fine.

I heard from someone today that you can use NERO to rip a DVD movie to your hard drive as an .mpeg file... is this true?