Whats the difference between VCD 1.0 and 2.0?

[Jaymanz]

Whats the difference between VCD 1.0 and 2.0?

[danmanx]

Here ya go! Cut-and-pasted from CDRINFO.COM's VCD FAQ!

What is VideoCD 2.0?
AudioCDs and CD-ROMs are very different. The binary data on each type of CD is fundamentally distinct (music vs data). Now, VideoCD 2.0, a third type of CD, designed for interactive multi-media and more is here! VideoCD 2.0 is as different from CD-ROM as CD-ROM is unlike CD-Audio.VideoCD is more structurally advanced than CD-ROM or CD-Audio. It provides full-screen and full-motion video. VideoCD works in CD-ROM drives.VideoCD 2.0 also works using both TVs and computers. PAL and NTSC TV systems are also both supported using inexpensive, stand-alone players. 'Interactivity' lets you jump from anywhere to anywhere, like CD-ROM. 'Still' photos and sound in varying quality resolutions are another part of VideoCD 2.0. CD-Audio, CD-ROM and VideoCD 2.0 'tracks' can all be used together on one CD and recorded together using many existing CD-Recorders! Use VideoCD 2.0 on CD-Recordable as a new, practical, communications tool.

What is the main difference with VideoCD 1.1?
A VideoCD 1.1 CD starts and runs to the end. Or, there are selectable 'tracks'. A 'linear play' VideoCD without 'stills' is a version 1.1 VideoCD. They only work on PAL or NTSC TVs, not both. A two disc VideoCD set can contain 2 hours and 24 minutes of full-motion, full-screen video AND 144 minutes of AudioCD quality sound. Version 1.1 VideoCDs work in version 2.0 players. Software like Toast, or Adaptec CD-Creator or many others write CDs in Version 1.1, not 2.0.

[vitualis]

There's a lot of dodgy/inaccurate info in that!

Significantly:
- 2h 24min is approx. right for video (for a 2 VCD set of 74min CDs), but you definitely won't get an additional 144 min of CD quality audio on top of that. That "AND" should be "OR".

- also most software packages like Adapatec Easy CD Creator create VCD2.0, NOT VCD1.1.

For a better understand of the the differences between VCD1.1 and VCD2.0, read the VCDImager manual.

Regards.