Example Please !

[monster]

Does anyone have a VCD compliant clip (maybe around 30 seconds to 1 minute) that they captured from a VHS tape. I'd like to try it in my standalone DVD player.

Thanks...

[windstar]

it will take about 5 mb for 30 sec.i'm in north america(ntsc)if it is compatible with you email me.
mmachado99@home.com

[kitty]

Burn the sample of your choice at http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcd.htm#sample
and test it. The VCDimager test disk is also good at
exercising a DVD player.

Da Kitty

[monster]

Windstar, I already downloaded http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcd.htm#sample and it looks fine. The problem is that it's in like a letterbox format. Since it's shrunk down in size and using less area the quality improves. My point, since the bitrate on a vcd needs to be fixed at like (115,000 kbs or something like that) the less shown (black part on the letterbox) the more bandwidth to use towards your video being played, hence great quality, but thick black lines on top and bottom. Does this make sense anyone ? Am I thinking right?

[ktnwin]

monster, you are right. Movie in letter box format has less area for picture therefore the 1150Kbps is more effective than with a full screen picture.
However, lots of movies come out this way nowaday. They help to make VCD look better

[monster]

Great, I thought so. So here is my question. Let's say I capture at a very high MPEG1 setting (320 x 240) and I want to convert it to VCD format. I'm assuming I can use TEMPGenc. How can I get it to be smaller (I want better quality) and keep the aspect ratio (same ration as the orginal source)?

Thanks ...

[monster]

Does anyone know how to do what I asked from my last post with TEMPGenc?

[mac]

VCD is 352x240 using non square pixels, itu something, that makes better quality.