TMPGEnc: VCD check?

[bebopdeluxe]

Hello again, the answer to my last post has now lead me to another question, I hope it's not an obvious one, if it is, feel free to burn me on it (get it, burn me? Yeah it's early and only one coffee) I've found out with the help here that I can't truly trust Nero to judge VCD compliancy, better to trust TMPGEnc. My question is this, if I download a file that the poster says is VCD/SVCD should I just burn away or is there a way to tell if it is really VCD? If I start to encode with TMP for example, would it tell me it is already encoded properly or would it just follow orders?

[bugster]

If you tell TmpGenc to re-encode, it will re-encode. It doesn't care about the format of the source as long as it can read it. If you are concerned about the compliancy of downloaded material, why not just burn it, CD-r's are cheap and if your player can handle them, CDRW's are re-usable if it does or doesn't work.

OR, You could try this little program:

http://www.geocities.com/cplarosa/movieid/

It does exactly what is says. When you know the format specs of your
downloaded movie then you can instruct TMPGEnc how to encode it, if it
needs re-encoding.

GoodLuck!

[bebopdeluxe]

Thank you both very much for your replies, that is a very cool little app, very handy!