leirbag28 wrote:
about the CD-i Digital Video CD's...............the CD32 plays them no problem.........
You'll also find that ISOBuster on the PC is able to extract MPEG-1 video from CD-i discs - you can then re-encode it to a compliant 352x288 stream...
most DVD players play VCD today
This is true for PAL countries - Europe, Australia, NZ, etc... Even the cheapest cheapo players will do VCD with no problem...
Now.....if anyone wants advice on how to make the most excellent Quality VCD's.........it starts with first having excellent quality Footage
Always the case! Noisy footage is a nightmare with MPEG-1, but a good quality original will exceed VHS quality if it's encoded with decent software (like TMPGEnc).
Another thing you can do if you want tonnes of video on one disc is to encode a 352x288 MPEG-1 stream (with 48KHz audio instead of the usual 44.1) and burn that to DVD. That way you can get over 7 hours of reasonable quality on one standard 4.7Gb disc that'll play on most players (as it's part of the official PAL DVD spec)...
- Ali
