For those of you who bought Vid. Fact. to make SVCD type stuff, forget it. Here is what I heard form
Ligos. I sent a question to Sonic support about a week and a half ago with zilch for a response. Too
busy I guess. I wanted to simply generate MPEG-2 files that are SVCD compliant and burn the CD's
with Nero. The software seems to be able to make compliant VCD's with MPEG-1 ok. In anycase here
is the response I recieved from Ligos:


"Although Video Factory apparently has a Super VideoCD setting for MPEG-2, it is not at all SVCD
compliant. We found out about the SVCD setting a few weeks ago, and are currently talking to Sonic
Foundry about it. At the time they licensed GoMotion, we had not added SVCD support to it, so we're
not
entirely certain why they have an SVCD setting at all. This is a Sonic Foundry issue, and you really
need to take it up with them and their support department.

We will be working more closely with our partners in the future to avoid this type of confusion. In the
meantime, there is only one application on the market that currently uses GoMotion with official,
SVCD
spec-compliant MPEG-2 output, and that is our own LSX-MPEG LE for Adobe Premiere. Other Ligos
customers
do have the latest SDK, and are working to provide true SVCD support in their products, but they are
not
yet available.

I have no idea why Nero says the stream is MPEG-1, unless there is some additional problem with
VideoFactory, or some decoding problem with Nero. Our MPEG streams are rigorously tested under a
number
of stream verification systems, and they are definitely MPEG spec compliant. I myself haven't had any
problem at all using Ahead and LSX LE to make some great SVCDs lately."