Any (S)VCD books?

[lemmy999]

Are there any books that discuss (S)VCDs? I have seen many on DVD but not too many on VCD.

[timmy_boi]

yea ive been looking for a good book and found that there are verry little books, and the books that do have vcd are realy stupid.

all i say is vcdhelp all the way man

there are alot of tutorials that brought me from a brand new spankin newbie to i donno i know more about the concept now to make som decent vcds and understand the terms. ALL FOR FREE

[lemmy999]

Yeah, VCDhelp.com has really helped and I can make SVCDs that work well, but I was wanting to get some more technical details on the SVCD standard.

[timmy_boi]

yea i heard its called the "white book standard" like its a set of rules that (s)vcd should go by.

[hvr]

the whitebook is actually the 4C Video CD 2.0 specification dating back to 1995; you can only (officially) get your hands on it by signing a bloody NDA with philips eindhoven... same applies to the 4C Super Video CD specs published in 1999;
but the good news is, that the SVCD became an international standard, and as such it's been published as IEC62107 and can be acquired w/o any NDA, the downside is, that it's a subset of the full SVCD specification, on the other hand, the parts 'missing' from it are only minor parts which aren't implemented by many western DVD players anyway (OGT, menus w/ hotspots, disc changer support, virtual machine command lists)

There's Super Video CD, A technical explanation available at the philips page, which explains some technical details... maybe that's what you are insterested in...

but if you want the hard technical details, I'd suggest you take a look at vcdimager, an implementation of the VCD1.x/VCD2.0/SVCD1.0/HQ-VCD1.0 formats...