question on VCD files
 

I need some help with my newly aquired VCD files (torrent). so Ive got a bunch of 'WINRAR archive files' files and a slightly smaller bunch of 'R30 file' files. if i unzip one of the WINRAR files i can view it in Windows media player but there is no sound.
so i can view the video content of each RAR file on my laptop, albeit minus sound, but how do i go about a: getting these files on a disk that i can put in my DVD player and b: getting the sound?

thanks in advance

Try Nero.

http://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/index.html

cheers, ive played with nero a while back

This doens't exactly match your description, but may help: winrar can be set to break up a large file into several smaller files (this used to be more popular in the days of diskettes and dialup internet access). It creates a first filename.rar, then several sequential files, filename.r00, filename.r01, filename.r02, etc. So filename.r30 sounds like the 30th sequential file in the entire archive. If you double-click the main filename.rar file and extract the contents (probably one large .avi file) it should automatically move on to the sequential archive files. I'm not too sure of the file structure for avi's, but maybe the audio data is stored later in the file than the video, which would explain why one uncompressed archive yielded only video.

Once you have the full avi file extracted, you'll need dvd authoring software to burn it to dvd. Some dvd players will recognize a properly formatted video cd (vcd), for which you can use a regular CDR. Older versions of Nero (like freebie versions that used to come with CD burners) can burn VCDs and SVCDs (super video CDs, basically 2 cds for one movie) but who knows what dvd players will support them. I use Nero Vision, which is part of Nero 7 - just drag and drop the video file into it, a couple more clicks, and it's burning your dvd for you.

Hope this helps!

i hate it when they rar up cd files for torrents
there's no use whatsoever since torrent breaks it up in little packets by itself.. it's totally redundant , i mean , we're long past the age of floppy and even zip disks now right?

thanks for your help guys, im gonna get nero7 and have a play

vcdplayer will play most files without burning on cdrom

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
free, no addware. doesn't use the mediaplayer codecs. so even when mplayer is on the fritz, this will keep working...

True, but not all file sharing proggs run under torrent, hence just to cover all ways to share i believe the ripper groups rar the cd/dvd files.

Pls have a look at the VLC player.
You do not even have to unrar to play a vcd/dvd
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

edit: oops you have already mentioned the VLC....well it's so good so it is worth to mention again :)