Is there a such thing as MPEG 3 ????

[spankey]

I have a phillips dvd 751 standalone player. When I load svcds that I encoded with TMPGEvc and ripped with nero as a normal svcd . WHen I load it in my player the menu shows "SVCD MPEG3"? Shouldn't the svcd be MPEG2???

Reason why I am asking this is because my player is playing my svcds with noise and ghosting but plays fine on other players???

Should something be changed in the players options that I may be missing???

Thanks

Spankey

[Xesdeeni]

See http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/mpeg2faq.html

Xesdeeni

[adam]

That is bizarre I don't know why your dvd player would say that. Mpeg3 only exists in theory and on paper and was never actually implemented in any hardware. If your familiar with telecommunications mpeg3 is pretty analogous to a T2. Basically they started development on it and decided that either current technology was already just as good or that the format would already be outdated before production was even finished.

Basically mpeg3 was soley developed to be used in HDTV but it was determined that mpeg2 worked just as well.