SVCD frame size

[Dave Knowles]

Hi,

I am trying to make a SVCD to play back on a computer but all the default size windows for SVCD seem to be the wrong proportions 480 x 576. Why is this?

[willy_annand]

Technical Info for SVCD and CVD

PAL


Video:
max ~2524 kbit/sec MPEG-2 (if the audio is in 224 kbit/s), audio + video bitrate max bitrate is ~2748 kbit/s.
480 x 576 pixels (CVD 352x576)
25 frames/second
with up to 4 Subtitles

Audio:
from 32 - 384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2
with up to 2 Audio Tracks

Extra :
Menus and chapters.
Still pictures 704x576,352x288




NTSC / NTSCFilm


Video:
max ~2524 kbit/sec MPEG-2 (if the audio is in 224 kbit/s), audio + video bitrate max bitrate is ~2748 kbit/s.
480 x 480 pixels (CVD 352x480)
29,97 frames/second
23,976 frames/second (NTSC Film)
with up to 4 Subtitles

Audio:
from 32 - 384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2
with up to 2 Audio Tracks

Extra :
Menus and chapters.
Still pictures 704x480,352x240

[Dave Knowles]

Hi Willy,

Thanks for the reply. What I don't understand is why the picture size is portrait and not landscape as it is for showing on a monitor or TV. Surely the picture then has to be stretched to more in one direction (width) than height.

[willy_annand]

just stretched one way to fit the horizontal sizing.

[Heavensent]

to play svcd on the computer you need a player that will handle it.
something like powerdvd or windvd.
if you use them you will see the movie at full screen
and it will look like it should.