What is HQVCD (I saw this in VCDComposer)

[mvdude2001]

What is HQVCD and how can I burn one. I suppose HQ is an acronym for "High-Quality". I saw this term in VCDComposer, right when you open VCDComposer you see this pulldown menu with the title VCD type, I pulled it down and it said in order:
VCD 1.1
VCD 2.0
SVCD 1.0
HQVCD 1.0

I just want some info on other types of VCD besides the one mos commonly used at this site (VCD, SVCD, XVCD, XSVCD...)

[AntnyMD]

I'm pretty sure an HQVCD is an XSVCD with 352x480/576 resolution MPEG2. I dont know if it supports the anamorphic flag or uses 48kHz sampled audio. Almost all, if not all, players that support SVCD unofficially support HQVCD.

[vitualis]

HQVCD is was one of the putative standards before the final SVCD specs were ratified.

I believe that the HQVCD option in VCDImager is still under the bracket of "experimental" so use at your own risk...

Regards.

[hvr]

actually HQVCD1.0 is just a minor variant on the SVCD1.0...
I've just implemented it, since it was defined in the IEC62107 specs; although there wasn't written much about it, except that's it provided for compatibility with existing devices in the market... or something like that;
anyway, it's not experimental at all; the only thing experimental is the VCD1.0 support as I don't have enough information for it...