[MEncoder-users] DVD to VCD Convertion

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:06:33PM -0700, RC wrote:
> > I think I just might go back to the drawing board. Instead of trying
> > to cram a movie onto a single CD, just keep to the VCD specs and span
> > it across two CD.
> 
> As Rich said, unless you are intent on recording VCDs to be played on a
> VCD or DVD player, you should just use MPEG-4.  If you want it to be
> playable on a DVD player, I would highly recomend making an SVCD
> instead.

If his laptop is as slow as he claims, it probably can't play SVCD...
On the other hand, it _might_ be possible to create 2-pass highly-vbr
mpeg1 streams at VCD resolution and have them still be playable on
some DVD players.

Rich