On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:35:01 +0200 Maarten de Boer <mdeboer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >recently, i have gotting into creating (S)VCD's quite a bit. it is rather >easy to burn something that works, though it becomes rather more difficult >once you start tweaking the command line parameters (lots!), and it involves >several applications in a row (pipes, and temp files). i have been using the >dvgrab (i've been encoder miniDV recording), mjpegtools (lav2yuv, yuvdenoise, >yuvscaler, mpeg2enc, etc), mplex, and vcdimager. capabilities of standalone >players do vary quite a bit, so you can decide to create (S)VCD's that follow >the standard to play safe, or try higher bitrates. www.dvdrhelp.com has a >rather extensive list of user-reports on player capabilities. DVD? Unless you've got a DVD recorder you can only do short stuff. The quality's much better though. And, you start getting into real standards and capabilities.