This may be a daft questiom

Maverick wrote on 1/1/2003, 7:08 AM

Hi & Happy New Year

I have a short project (only around 20 minutes) which I want to put to VCD. Could I render as mpg2 and still burn to VCD or does it have to be mpg?

Thanks for any advice.

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/1/2003, 8:07 AM

VCD only supports MPEG1 at a bitrate of 1150 kbps. You could make a Super Video CD (SVCD) which accepts MPEG2 up to a bitrate of 2520 kbps but you would need other software to burn it.

~jr

Tyler.Durden wrote on 1/1/2003, 8:27 AM

Hold the phone jr...

I do believe VV has SVCD as an option in the Tools>Burn CD>Multimedia CD menu...?

MPH

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/2/2003, 8:13 PM

Ya, but when you use that option, it creates a multimedia CD (read: “plain ole data CD”) with the MPEG2 file stuck on it. It doesn’t have the SVCD disc structure and doesn’t play on a DVD player. It’s really just an SVCD “quality” MPEG file on a data CD. (i.e., a multimedia CD just like the menu says)

Perhaps I wasn’t clear in my post. I wasn’t implying that VV3 couldn’t make an SVCD compliant MPEG2 file. You could make that from the File->Render As menu. You just need another program to burn the file as an SVCD image on a CD.

~jr