i dont know if i am the first person to try this (i really severely doubt that i am) And i've actually known about this for a little while, but i figured just in case there were people who didnt realize it (which im sure there are) SVCD (or maybe just XSVCD) is NOT constrained to being 480x480. Now i just want to say that im assuming its most likely just XSVCD at that point because SVCD is probably very strict and specific whereas XSVCD is more versatile.. and im not sure if this works on ALL dvd players, but its worked on my PS2 and all my pioneers and from the way things seem im PRETTY sure that any DVD player that accepts XSVCD will accept it in this format. Whats nice about this "discovery" (again i apologize if someone covered this before and i missed it) is you can then use Quicktime MPEG-2 encoder to make SVCD files.. since the mpeg-2 export in quicktime is the fastest ENCODER (remeber encoder, this strikes dvd2one out of the list b/c it doesnt re-encode) it makes the process of encoding for SVCd a lot quicker. You can encode the video to whatever bitrate you desire with the mpeg-2 export and then mux that with mp2 audio with the sampling rate of 44100 as an SVCD in mplex and vcdimager will accept it, and cdrdao will burn it as a SVCD with no problem.. they display the same and work the same in any player i've test them in. Just thought i'd share that idea since im sure many of you use quicktime mpeg-2 export for a variety of things, but im not certain if anyone has ever used it to make an XSVCD. Another nice thing about doing it this way if you want that video to go from an SVCD to a dvd all you need to do is re-encode the audio to 48000 and your ready to go....

please dont ask any questions about mpeg-2 transcoding in quicktime because i dont wanna answer a question that has definitely been addressed b4, a LOT of posts on this forum cover the mpeg-2 transcoding method in QT, im sure its on some tutorial websites as well.