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If you have a DV camcorder and a CD (not DVD) burner, aside from exporting your footage to VHS tape, how can you share your movies with others? Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (SVCD) may be the answer... How do the formats compare? Using Nero 6 on the PC I created a VCD and a SVCD containing footage in both 16:9 and in 4:3 format. I then attempted playback on a PC, a Mac, a consumer DVD player, and extraction and conversion to alternative video formats on a Mac. VCD VCD has a 352 x 288 resolution at 25 frames per second (PAL) , MPEG-1 encoding at fixed bitrate, allowing approx. 70 mins of video, discs are playable on almost all DVD players, quality approximates that of VHS tape. On Windows, RealPlayer v.10 and Windows Media Player v.9 both recognized the difference in 16:9 vs 4:3 aspect ratios during playback; neither player displayed the disc menu. On Windows, WinDVD v.4 recognized difference in 16:9 vs 4:3 aspect ratios during playback and displayed the disc menu. On the Mac, VLC recognized the difference in 16:9 vs 4:3 aspect ratios during playback but didn't display the disc menu. On the Philips DVDR890/051 DVD re-recorder I could extract footage from the VCD (using Gumby) and convert it to other formats on the Mac. SVCD SVCD has 576 x 480 resolution at 25 frames per second (PAL), MPEG-2 encoding at a variable bitrate, allowing approx. 35 mins of video at highest quality, discs are playable on many DVD players, quality approximates 2/3rd that ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2004%2F08%2F18%2Fmaking-vcds-and-svcds%2F&seed_title=Making+VCDs+and+SVCDs/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/