From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: MPG Video Format Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:12:47 -0800 Message-ID: <43797C5F.9050008@bcgreen.com> References: <20051115105214.25290e02@Peter.meridiantelekoms.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20051115105214.25290e02@Peter.meridiantelekoms.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Peter , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Are you trying to just burn the file to a CD to move it to another machine (or just have an offline copy)? or are you trying to creat a Video CD that can be played on a dvd player? If the former, then you should be creating a *DATA* cd project, not a video CD project. If the latter, then you need to have your mpg file in a format appropriate to creating a VCD, and I have no idea how to do that -- I'm just barely managing to burn DVD videos. Peter wrote: >Hi, > >I downloaded a video clip of 270 MB in mpg format. I would like to burn it >onto a CD, however, I get the error message with k3b: > >"unable to handle the file due to unsupported format" > >The program graveman tries to write and stops just saying: failed. > >Changing the file.mpg to file.mpeg made no difference. > >The video clip plays nicely with Totem. > >Is there a way to burn it onto a CD? > >Thanks & regards > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs