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VCD And SVCD Whats the difference Just out of curiosity. I always burn VCD but want to know in the simplist of terms what the difference is
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If i ask its because i want to know, If i dont ask its because i tried it myself and messed it up and thats why im asking.:p
SVCD is higher quality, but you can only fit half as much video (time-wise) on a CD (1/2 hour vs. 1 hour, roughly)
That's about it :)
video CD
A compact disc format that enables medium-quality (similar to VHS) video recording and playback and high-quality (same as Audio CD) audio recording and playback. Video CDs hold up to 75 minutes of video.
Super Video CD
An enhanced version of a video CD developed under encouragement from the Chinese government, an SVCD can store up to about 60 minutes of good-quality video, plus two stereo channels and subtitles. An SVCD can have video compressed through MPEG-2 at a bitrate of up to 2.6Kbps and audio compressed up to 384Kbps.
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