I'm interested in making my own Video CDs (playable in my VCD-compatible DVD player).
I have a number of good-quality MPEG-2 movies. I gather I would have to convert these to MPEG-1. Is there any free Linux software that can do this? I read somewhere that a Video CD is simply a data CD with a particular directory structure and a set of text files for contents, menus, and so on, in addition to the MPEG-1 movie files. So can I just write the text files by hand and burn the files to a CD-R to create a working Video CD? (My DVD player can handle audio CD-Rs, so I cross my fingers and hope that it will accept a Video CD-R too.) What tools are there for working with an ISO-9660 image file on Linux? How does one create an empty ISO-9660 image file? I gather once such a file exists, you can just mount it and then treat it like any other writable filesystem. Thanks, Craig
