Re: [VCDImager] Newbie svcd quiestion

[Jorgensen, Jens]

Roman Hochleitner wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jorgensen, Jens wrote:
>
> > The SVCD spec requires that the mpeg video be exactly 480x480 
> > resolution. No more, no less. Don't worry about the aspect ratio 
> > though--all pixels are not square and it will look just as it should. 
> > So, just scale in the width to 480 and you're good to go.
>
> yoda says: for PAL so untrue this is
So true my good man. I need to stop thinking I live in an all-NTSC world!

> 480x480 at 29.97fps is ok for NTSC, but for 
> PAL you have to use 480x576 25fps.
>
> anyway you can use other resolutions than theese two, but then
> you leave the SVCD standard and will have a XSVCD, which probably
> no DVD player might play ;)
I've tried some non-standard resolution on my AVPhile 715. I tried to do 
720x480 for SVCD. It played but the video was awful--very garbled and 
completely unwatchable.

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Jens B. Jorgensen
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