A Video Compact Disc, or VCD, is a video format created in Japan that allows for 1 hour of MPEG-1 encoded video and audio to be stored on a standard 700MB CD. VCD’s are playable in almost all standalone DVD players and computer CD/DVD drives. Their visual quality is about equal to what you would expect from a VHS video. Audio Video Interleave, or AVI, is a file format designed to store video and audio data that is primarly meant to viewed on computers and played by software video players such as Windows Media Player. This article describes steps that may be taken to convert a VCD to a computer AVI file using a popular (and free) PC video processing tool known as Virtualdub.
