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 ! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
