Transcoding to Super VCD

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Transcoding to Super VCD

Post by Tham » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:41 am

This nursing home near my house has an old Philips DVD player which plays
only DVD, VCD and Super VCDs. It can't play Xvid or DivX.

I'm trying to convert H.264 or Xvid movies for the inmates there to watch.


As my office computer has only a CD writer, I am forced to convert them to Super VCD format,
which would require 2 CDs for an average length movie and 3 CDs for movies 2 hours or more.

Converting to standard VCD would be worse, since this is restricted to video bit rates
of 1150 kbps and audio bit rates of 224 kbps, with poor resolutions.


Super VCD has the following restrictions :

MPEG-2
Frame aspect ratio of 480 x 480 (NTSC) or 480 x 576 (PAL).
Frame rates 29.97 (NTSC) or 25 (PAL)
Video bit rates variable up to 2500 kpbs
Audio bit rates from 32 to 256 kbps


When converting a 2.35 super wide-screen movie, what settings,
especially pixel aspect ratio, and display aspect ratio, do I set in Mediacoder ?

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