Vcds Of Only One Disc

[majagua]

Is there any way to make 1 disc VCDs of good quality? Or is it almost always necessary to make 2 disc VCDs?

Is SVCD quality far better than VCD Quality???

Thanks!

[SSIXS]

Well, "good quality" is a subjective term and differs with each individuals personal tastes. ;)

To answer your question...yes, it is possible to place a whole movie on 1 VCD (depending on the lenth of the flick) The VCD is typically encoded with TmpgEnc using the KVCD matrix templates. Further info can be found here:

http://www.kvcd.org/portal/index.php

As for how good the quality wil be, that depends on your source and your own definition of "good quality" but it is actually possible to fit an average of 120 mins on 1 CDR. Give it a test and see what you think, you'll never know until you try. :D

One thing though, you'll want to check the compatibility chart listed on the page if you want to play the CD in a standalone player. If you mainly watch your movies on PC then there's no problem with compatibility.

Concerning VCD and SVCD...it all depends on the bitrate...if using the KVCD templates, VCD looks better than SVCD at lower bitrates.

Hope this helps

[smiller667]

If you want to make a standard-compliant vcd (without any other letters involved as a prefix), then you are limited to whatever your blanks hold (i.e. a maximum of approx. 74, 80, 90 or 99 mins), as bitrates for audio and video are fixed for a standard vcd. Not all standalone players will accept 90 or 99 min. blanks, thus if you aim for universal compatibility, stay with a maximum of 80 mins.
I can't compare KVCD to SVCD, but a properly done SVCD using good quality video as source is superior to a standard vcd.

[mesmerist]

Originally posted by smiller667
If you want to make a standard-compliant vcd (without any other letters involved as a prefix), then you are limited to whatever your blanks hold (i.e. a maximum of approx. 74, 80, 90 or 99 mins), as bitrates for audio and video are fixed for a standard vcd. Not all standalone players will accept 90 or 99 min. blanks, thus if you aim for universal compatibility, stay with a maximum of 80 mins.
I can't compare KVCD to SVCD, but a properly done SVCD using good quality video as source is superior to a standard vcd.

Wow, this looks incredibly good. How is the sound quality (bitrate) on VCDs? (I -did-search!)