[MacDV] Re: Super VCDs

[Thubten Kunga]

What Video Codec and the rest of those settings on the left side of the 
interface box Dennis? I feel a SVCD coming on. Thanks.

k

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 05:53  PM, Dennis R. Cohen wrote:

> On 2/8/03 at 10:44 AM, David Thrasher <idave at earthlink.net> transmitted
> the following electronic message:
>
>> This may or may have not been discussed already but does anyone know
>> if there's anything available to make a Super Video CD on a Mac? I'd
>> like to find a way. I'm currently using Mac OS 9.22 most of the time
>> and I also have OS 10.1.5 installed (can't swing Jaguar yet). Toast
>> with make 1.0 Video CDs which uses MPEG-1 and looks a little bit worse
>> than a VHS videotape recorded in the 6 hour (EP) mode. I've check
>> Roxio's website and I've checked the vcdhelp website
>> (http://www.vcdhelp.com) but I find no Mac instructions for the Super
>> Video CD format (VCD version 2.0). Although you can't put as much on
>> each CD, the quality is close to DVD quality (sorry, can't afford to
>> do DVDs at this time either) since it uses MPEG-2 files too. Any
>> instructions or links would be appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>
> Yes, there are a couple of ways to make SVCDs, but you have a
> fundamental misimpression in your post. Super VCDs are MPEG-2 based
> encodings and VCD 2.0 is still MPEG-1 based (the major differences
> between 2.0 and 1.4 are related to the support files on the disk).
>
> I make SVCDs coming out of iMovie by exporting to Full Quality DV and
> then feeding that to ffmpeg (currently using 0.0.6e), with the output
> format set to SVCD NTSC (there's also SVCD PAL). ffmpeg does it's 
> thing,
> calling various tools (such as YUVscaler and mencode) to produce the
> MPEG-2 files I desire and the image files to burn in Toast (Multitrack
> CD-ROM XA format.
>
> --Dennis Cohen
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