Philips SVCD Designer

[harlequin0]

Has anybody some experience with that program and and could tell if it would be a good choice to use? I just know the Philips Video CD 2.0 Toolkit (love it because of its menu features and 100% standard compliant output)

Greetings

Harlequin0

[adam]

Well Philips SVCD Designer require NT to run. Unless that is your os or your willing to dual boot with it, I can't possible recommend SVCD Designer.

It is a good program, and I believe its free also but its just too big of an inconvenience to cater your os to one single program.

If you have access to I-Author I think you will find that it can pretty much do everything that SVCD Designer can do and will run on any os.

[Jestorius]

Or VCDComposer, VCDEasy. They are free. Philips SVCD Designer costs something like 500,- $ as I know. You must have a licence-key.

[marsmayhem]

No. SVCD Designer is free. The $500 price is attached to the SVCD builder application that takes the Designer's files, does all the encoding of stills, muxing of multiple audio/video tracks, and creates a presentation from that.

The best thing about SVCD Designer is the documentation that comes with it - if you read it, you'll get a really good understanding of SVCD, the ins and outs, and what it is capable of.

SVCD Designer supports Commands (similar to scripting on DVDs) - I haven't seen any other designers do that yet.

You don't really need SVCD anymore - VCDImager pretty much does everything you need. Designer's not that friendly anyway.

[Jestorius]

I didn't know it. I try to find it and download it. Thank you for the info.

[Jestorius]

http://www.licensing.philips.com/ordering/soft/documents199.html

I guess this the right download site.

[harlequin0]

Thank you for sharing that information, I just downloaded it, it seems to work fine under xp.

greetings

harlequin0