what format to play in home DVD player

[bspider]

What format, VCD or SVCD must I burn to in order to play in home DVD player? By the way, when I explore the CD which i burned in VCD format, all i see are folders and when i click in the folders there are no files recognized by my computer. Thanks.

[az3ar]

if your dvd player supports svcd, then i would go for svcd, since you will get a much better pic,...
i would recommend you try both, and see the difference

[alkieman]

Check your DVD players manuals to see which formats it supports.

VCD.
maximum 74 mins on a 650mb CD-R.
Quality is better than VHS in terms of colour bleed etc. but a bit less than VHS overall due to some blockiness that will be visible on larger TVs. You can muck around with the MPEG encoding parameters to try and improve things but remember extra encoding takes longer.


SVCD.
Maximum is 39 mins on a 650mb CD-R.
Much higher quality than VCD and VHS, on most average sized TVs you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference between a well encoded SVCD and a DVD. The downside is only 39 mins per disc so you'll need several for a full length movie.

Your DVD player must also support CD-R or CD-RW discs, you would be surprised how many still don't.

There are a number of things you can do to try and fit more on one blank but generally these have an impact on picture quality.

xVCD is the generic name for non standard VCD discs. The VCD standard has a fixed resolution, bitrate and audio sampling rate. If you deviate even slightly what you create is an xVCD disc which may not play in your DVD player. Some will play it so it is worth experimenting with. Some people here have been able to squeeze as long as 150mins or more on one CD-R using variations in the video and/or audio bitrates.

SxVCD is the higher resolution equivalent of xVCD. Start with the SVCD templates and play around with them altering bitrates etc. Again you may be able to fit more on one blank without affecting picture quality too much but be aware that many SVCD compatible DVD players will not play SxVCD.

Experiment, experiment, experiment and have plenty of patience.

You'll find all the help you need in the guides on the left and in this forum.

[bspider]

Thanks!

[bspider]

thanks!