Help with Creating Compliant VCD's

[madA]

Plz dont fry me with this question BUT I will state I've used DVD2SVCD about 12 times now & its Bloody Great! BUT

I have a 2nd standalone that refuses to play SVCD's (Sanyo DVD1500) & would like to try doing a few VCD's. Is it simply a case of setting ALL the BitRate settings at the bottom to 1150 & setting the Audio to 128@44khz with CCE set to CBR OR have I just lost the plot all together.

semi finally - Excellent Prog :p :p

[Bob01605]

Although virtually ALL standalone DVD players will play the VCD format as well as DVD - Only about 70% or so will play the SVCD format. Your Sanyo is probably one of the 30% or so of standalone DVD players that do NOT support the SVCD format.
I recently bought my son a new DVD player for Christmas. I brought an SVCD with me to WAL MART. They had two basic (about $125) models - A Philips and and a GE (Shinco). The Philips would NOT play the SVCD - The GE played it just fine - You know which player I bought for my son ..

Bob

[madA]

Thanks Bob, Your correct that the Sanyo will not play SVCD's as I checked & they all freeze on startup. But I was hoping that DVD2SVCD would actually allow me to encode to VCD (sort of like DVD2VCD :-] )

Ive searched thru the forums before asking & cannot find this type of question asked before. I can get the programme to work very nicely for SVCD's BUT I'm a little suspect if CCE 2.50 will do it.

While Im posting this question I am currently trialling a encode to VCD (using CBR-1278max including 128kbit-44khz stereo) but for me to test it I have to do a 5hr return car trip to test the results (the 2nd player is about 160km away).

Basically I love the way the program is & Im not complaining one bit -Its only for the sake that I can play back my home DVD's at the other location.

thanks

[Labersack]

VCD needs 1150kb/s Video and 224kb/s audio, you can set this in DVD2SVCD. BUT you will get an MPEG2-stream, and VCD needs an MPEG1... (CCE can do MPEG1, but not with the best quality.)
You can't set DVD2SVCD to do an VCD, you just have to do this by hand.

[Mozart]

try DVDx.

[madA]

:) Thanks for the info -trust it to be the commercial package to let me down...