Can you convert Flash to play on VCD/DVD player?

[seanpc]

Hello...

Quick question for anyone to ponder....

I have a client that wants to take a simple Flash intro I did him and make it 'playable' on a DVD/VCD player. The client will have a DVD player/TV set up at a conference, and want's the intro to loop for however long....

Is there a simple way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks much,

seanpc

[geneinabox]

Hi ! Export your movie to AVI format and convert it to MPEG VCD-compliant format. Then use a CD-burning software such as NERO to burn it to VCD.

Hope this helps.

[Konings]

Geneinebox, thank you for your posting,

I use TmpgEnc (VCD-Template) or Xing-Encoder (VCD-Template) to make VCD-compliant MPG's out of AVI's produced in Swish 2.

The MPG files are very choppy as compared to my avi's.

I have used "Full frame" as well as "Cinepack by Radius Compression" to export to avi within Swish-2 but both result in choppy mpg's.

Any idea ?

[geneinabox]

Hi there !

Based on my experience with Flash and video export, your settings should be fine. VCD-compliant Mpgs are rather 'blocky' on your PC monitor, but they look really sharp on TV. Try it and let me know

[Konings]

Hi, Geneinabox,

Thank you very much for your lightning-fast reply which is highly appreciated. I will burn a VCD on the basis of my vcd-compliant-mpegs's tonight and then try it on my DVD-player.

Sure, I will post my findings right here in this thread. Stay tuned.....

Thanks again!

[Konings]

Hi, Geneinabox, again,

As promised, my results:

Titles produced in Swish-2 and exported as avi (compressed with cinepac by radius codecs) and encoded to mpg with tmpgenc (vcd template) and burned on vcd with roxio ecdc 5.0 play on my dvd-player without loosing any quality.

If the background is not an uniform "black" but a "jpg" picture, the text of the title is getting blocky. This I have experienced with all video-editing software as well (adobe, ulead and mgi).

Thus, refrain from background pictures in a lossy format and only use an uniform background color ?