MPEG1 vs MPEG2

[Olli]

Currently Im creating XVCD's from DivX avi's.
My player (Sony DAVS300) does not play SVCD'

My settings are:

Res 480x576 (PAL)
Bitrate max 2300 (found through trial and error)
CQ method at 90
Audio at 128K

The results are very good. I know that I could try to create SVCD and use the header trick to get it to play but I have a couple of questions

1) Seeing as my res and bitrate are nearly SVCD spec, what is the point of encoding using MPEG2 rather than MPEG1 ? Is MPEG2 noticeably better quality ?

2) If I use the header trick to get a SVCD to play in my player will I need to drop the bitrate to 2300 ?

thanks

Olli

[Craig Tucker]

One difference is SVCD(mpeg2) supports interlaced video. VCD(mpeg1) does'nt.

Craig

[Truman]

http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/research/mpeg/faq/mpeg2-v38/faq_v38.html#tag15