VCD at about 2,500kbps - will it work on a standard PC

[Ron Cahill]

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can assist me?
I make occasional interactive CD-ROM's with video encoded at standard VCD specs of 1150kbps via TMPGEnc which plays OK on Windows 95+.
If I encode the video (VCD) 'out of spec' at about 2,500kbps, would it have greater clarity and run fluently on a PC with Windows Media Player 6.1/6.4 or better?
Thanks for any advice which may be forthcoming!

[Baldrick]

If you do it right it and if your source is good enough it should look a bit better. It should also work fine on most computers using media player. If you only want it to play on computers you may wanna checkout divx or some other mpeg4 compression.

[vcdfreak]

Are you using Macromedia Director's MPEG plugin to play the VCD in your interactive multimedia? The plugin should play MPEG-1 of most bitrate well as long as your CD-ROM keep up with or it will result in jerky video.