Making MPEG-2 CD's to Play on Home DVD Player

[Lab Monkey]

Well, here's the bottom line. I want to capture video on my computer, convert it to MPEG-2, and burn to a CD that will play on a home DVD player. I am not happy with the "VHS" quality of MPEG-1, so Video CD will not work for me. Can you tell me what setup I will need to do this? I have a G200 with a Rainbow Runner G-Series capture card. I am using Easy CD Creator Deluxe 4.0 to burn my disks.

I was looking into using the LSX MPEG Encoder to convert to MPEG-2, but what would I need to do from that point to burn this to CD and make it play on my home stereo DVD player? The main motive for this is to archive my home videos from my HI-8 camcorder.

[elister]

What you need to do is encode it to encode it to a SuperVCD format. Of course, not all DVD players will play a CD-R disc & what a VCD will hold 70 minutes of AV on a CD-R a SuperVCD will hold about 35 minutes.

I am not sure what DVD players will actually play the SuperVCD format.

[KwOkOMoLe!!!]

Where do u get a superVCD encoder or whatever it is?

[elister]

I have no idea other than its a new standard in Asia. Do a power search with WebFerret (www.ferretsoft.com) and you'll find some links.

It still a new format, but its exactly what your looking for.

[DrMordrid]

The SVCD software was available from the Philips licensing site, but seems to have been removed. Just in case this is temporary here is how to find it;

http://www.licensing.philips.com/

Once on this pages menu click on MPEG.

On the next page click on "MPEG CONSUMER APPLICATIONS".

Near the bottom of the next page click on the word MORE after "Video CD and Super Video-CD".

On the next page click on "GENERAL ORDER PROCEDURE".

The files you want are "SVCD verifier" and
"SVCD authoring system".

They make it easy, huh? No direct link at all.

Both currently run only under WinNT4.

Dr. Mordrid