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Both SVCD & DVD use an MPEG2 codec, the first with a bit rate about 1/3 of
the latter. Are these 2 formats really just at either end of a continuum?
Would this mean that you could encode a video using the SVCD setting yet be
able to put 3 1/2 hours on a 4.7GB DVD disk? If you did this would there
be a problem in playing the disk on any DVD player that can currently
playback SVCD?

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Thanks in advance

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Whether or not this will work is dependant on which machine you want to play the SVCD...

A stand-alone will expect a DVD structure for any DVD disk inserted into it.

(MOST)Stand-alones will play an SVCD as long as it is on CD media. As soon as you move it to
a DVD the machine will refuse to recognize the file structure.


Larry Lynch
Mystic, CT