[VCDImager Bugs/Devel] vcdimager - suggestion (fwd)

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:51:27 +0100
From: Wolfgang Goeller <address@hidden>
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Subject: vcdimager - suggestion

Hello Herbert

Before going to my suggestion I want to tell you the background:

I found MPEG1 standard VCDs due to limited resolution poor.
I than experimented with other resoultions and learned:
MPEG2 is at 2500 Kbit/sec - the maximum for most DVD-Players
not ideal - MPEG1 does a better job at that Bitrate.

But: That leads to XVCD - but XVCD is supported only by
     very few DVD-Players.

Then I read: MPEG2 is downward compatible to MPEG1 and gave
it a try:

I encoded an MPEG1-File to 480x575 resolution.

Then i burned it telling NERO (unfortunately no other choice
at the moment) to make a SVCD. Of course: Nero complained
about the wrong format. I set to "allow files that do not comply
to the standard" and burned.

My DVD-Player detected and treated it as SVCD - even so the
file was MPEG1 - and switched to the correct full-screen
resolution.

I tried it with a friends DVD-Player, also not ready for
XVCD but SVCD with double speed - and even his DVD-player
did a good job.

Now that you got the background, you will understand the suggestion:

Please don't check to strict for complying files.
vcdimager stops if it finds non-standard-files.
I would suggest a message saying what was wrong with
the file and the option to continue anyhow.

It would be so nice if I could get rid of my
windows-partition, that I've made only for nero.

Best wishes
Wolfgang