[MacDV] Re: Video CD

[Charlie Reyes]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:59:04 -0600 Mark M. Florida wrote

>A.Pack is an audio-only encoding app, which Apple bought for audio encoding
>for DVD SP 1.x.  ASTARTE M.Pack is a different app altogether for MPEG
>*video* encoding -- I used to use it quite a bit years ago for MPEG
>encoding.  It does a terrific job, and produces VCD compliant files for the
>old 3.x and 4.x versions of Toast quite nicely.  (ASTARTE used to produce
>both Toast and M.Pack, so the two programs work together well)
>

The software Apple bought was CD Copy 2.0.3e which would copy audio CD, VCDs,
It copies copy protected audio CDs to this day.

Astarte (pronounced "us-tar-teh") also issued DVD Express (Windows only)
which was so good at decoding MPEG-2 that record companies threatened to
sue. Astarte took it off their servers, but only after a few thousands were
sold. A friend downloaded the 34 MB file plue 20 MB update. It can no
longer be purchased from their german language site.

Charlie