I was just curious, is it possible to make a VCD with any format other than mpeg? Or do they need to be mpegs to burn? I'm a big fan of independant shorts, and was trying to find a way to watch them on my player, but most are in Quicktime .MOV formats, or other types of formats.

-- Joe Quigley (loki@owt.com), May 20, 2000

Answers

hey Joe their are mov to avi converters out there, or if you are using the newer quicktime 4, if you register the product (or search for a crack which i dont support), this will then give you an option to convert the .mov to an avi. once its in avi just run it into your favorite encoder and then you can turn this into a vcd

-- DOUG (MAZINZ@AOL.COM), May 21, 2000.

Well, VCDs need MPEGs with the follwing properties:

For US NTSC 352x240 @ 29.97 fps 1120-1150 kbits/sec video, stereo 224 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio.

For PAL 352x288 @ 25 fps 1120-1150 kbits/sec video, stereo 224 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio.

Your best bet is to find a utility that converts the format you have to AVI, then use the Panasonic MPEG-1 Encoder to encode to VCD format.

Good luck.

-- Michael S. Gilmore (mgilmore@san.rr.com), May 22, 2000.