24fps vs. 30fps VCD - what's best?

[JustJay]

I’ve got a 24fps AVI that I was converting to VCD without paying attention to what I was doing I loaded it into TMPGEnc as video instead of film, end result a 30fps mpeg.
Ok so I decide lets see what it plays like, well it played fine (good pic, sound in sync).
Now I getting curious so I encode the AVI as film and burn both the 30fps and the 24fps to a CD/RW as a test, both play fine, I really can’t see any difference. Now my question – what’s the advantage of one over the other since I’m guessing the player has to convert everything to the same NTSC standard anyway before sending it out to my TV.

[Epi]

The short answer is that the 24fps should theoritically (did I spell that right?) be better quality because the bitrate is not as spread out as in the 30fps one. Hope this helps.

-Epi

Quick question what show is that cartoon character you chose for your avatar from?

[JustJay]

Epi, thanks for the quick response. Now that I think about your answer it makes perfect sense as it would seem to have the same effect as increasing the bitrate since your putting fewer frames in the same size file.

Re: "What show is the avatar from?
That's Kevin from "Mission Hill" a very short lived show on WB sometime around 1999 or so.