is it quicker to encode into svcd than vcd?

[bhasman]

i want to try this svcd header trick and im wondering if it is faster to encode to svcd than vcd formats

[bugster]

i want to try this svcd header trick and im wondering if it is faster to encode to svcd than vcd formats

All other things being equal, NO. SVCD is higher bitrate, higher resolution mpeg 2 compared to VCD so the encoder has to do more work to produce than VCD spec mpeg-1. It is much higher quality than VCD tho.