Why do DVD-VCD's need to be 48khz?

[EatMoreChickens]

Why do VCD audio files burned onto DVD media need to be in 48khz? Will newer DVD players be able to read 44khz audio files on DVD media?
http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr.htm

I want to eventually put my VCD files onto DVDs, but don't want to spend the time converting the audio, if newer players make this unneccesary. Is the 48khz intrinsic to DVD media?

If I don't convert it, will these files be playable on my computer? Or on a Apex machine?

[geek rock]

the reason they're 48hkz is just a DVD standard. it's a higher frequency than CD and so if uncompressed audio is used the sound quality will be better.

obviously using VCD-encoded mpeg's was not the intention of the standard.. it was, as i said, to provide higher-quality audio than CD.

-Mark

[wulf109]

DVD standard requires 48000 sampling rate. If your converting VCD or SVCD to DVD-R you convert the audio to 48000. No authoring program will except 44100 for a DVD and no DVD player will play a DVD made with 44100 audio.

[EatMoreChickens]

thanks for the responses, geek rock and wulf109.

If is convert all my vcd files to 48khz, will they still play if I burn them on CD-rs? Or would the DVD player not recognize it?

[0 kewl]

That depends on your DVD player - some will play your CDR VCDs with 48000Hz because it is a DVD standard anyway, others won't since it is not a VCD standard.