Fourth Stage Episodes 7+8

[Mux213]

Ivan,

Yups, VCD, SVCD and DVD all use MPEG2 encoding (although I think VCD may be MPEG1, not sure). Only SVCD is 2ce the res of VCD and DVD is 4x the res of SVCD and the bitrate is higher so the quality is better.

Also DVD has support for more sound channels and subtitling while (S)VCD is stereo + no subtitling (subtitles are encoded into the video).

Last but not least the menu system of DVD is more advanced then SVCD, although its all still the same basic setup.

But in the end the DVD decoder can play any MPEG2 stream. You only need to find DVD authoring software that leaves your MPEG2 stream in tact and then create some nice menus that startup your video.

I've only found some good text based menu editors that create a DVD image you can then burn with nero. But I dont like that to much. I'm now experimenting with some other software from Adobe but haven't had the time to really try it out.