Video encoding & vcd

[knutp]

Imtrying to make a movie with some home made stuff, I have edited it in the pinnacle studio dv program, and what kind of file should I save it as to get it viewed on a stand alone dvd player? mpeg1, mpeg2, avi? Are there any k/bit rates I must be within to be able to view it, and the audio must be 16bit, 44.100 or 48.000?

And when burning the vcd is it just to select the file in nero and burn it as vcd? or is there something else I have to do as well?

 

[mjquilly]

Check out vcdhelp.com, they have great walk-through's there. If you need more clarification, post back here since I seem to get better answers from this forum than the ones there.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Well for PAL vcds (you're from Norway, so I assume that's what you want), you need the video to have a resolution of 352x288, 25 frames per second, an aspect ratio of 4:3 (625 line), and a constant bit rate of 1150. Get tmpgenc.. it has a pre-made template that will do it for you 🙂 Be sure to decompress the audio first, if your source is .avi

Josh

 

[knutp]

Actually I want both pal and ntsc. One of the ones I make will be sent to the states. What kind of file do that have be be?

And the compression is mpeg2? and the audio should be pcm?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

For vcd, the compression is the older and not-so-hot mpeg1.

However, if I remember correctly (you have to check this out on the site you were provided with), you can make a PAL VCD, and it still will play in North America, except for losing a few lines on the top and bottom of he screen. And I've yet to see European TVs (even cheap, humble brands) that aren't able to display NTSC signals. So you don't really need to encode it twice.