On Monday 28 July 2003 06:27, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > I have some MPG videos which I want to burn with K3B. So I create a > new video project, drag the MPG file to it, and K3B gives me the > message that the MPG file already has to be in VCD format. How can I > find out if the file is already in VCD format ?
The formats for VCD and SVCD are as follows: VCD PAL 352x288/25fps 1150kb/s MPEG-1 (Audio 224kb/s MPEG-1 L2) VCD NTSC 352x240/29.97fps 1150kb/s MPEG-1 (Audio 224kb/s MPEG1 L2) SVCD PAL 480x576/25fps <=2600kb/s MPEG-2 (Audio <=384kb/s MPEG-1 L2) SVCD NTSC 480x480/29.97fps <=2600kb/s MPEG-2 (Audio <=384kb/s MPEG-1 L2) Note the combined bitrates for SVCDs must be less than 2778kb/s. For further information on these and other video formats check www.dvdrhelp.com. Any video player should be able to tell you what the video format currently is. You will then need to use some utility such as transcode to recode the video accordingly. > If the file is already in VCD format, is it bad to re-encode it to > (s)vcd again ? It is not the best thing to do to recode a (lossy compressed) video with a lossy compression if the original source is available. > Regarding the fact that K3B wants to burn it as VCD, is there an > option to let it burn the file as SVCD ? K3B will detect if the mpg file is in VCD or SVCD format and make the cd accordingly. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
