On ma, 28 jul 2003, Jason Stubbs wrote:

> 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)

Thanks. I was looking for some kind of "info" program, but this is
even better. Guess I should have looked that up with google :P 

> > 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.

Ok, I will do some tests on cd-rw for that.

> > 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.

Yep, I noticed. You can also change the video type in the burn
properties, but I will leave that as 'auto-detect'

Thanks Jason !

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