Hi Quality VCD and DVD stand alone player

[benedetto]

For a very good quality (better and better then the poor 1150 kbit/s of standard VCD) a 40-41 minutes of mpeg1 video and compatibility with DVD stand alone player I use the Panasonic Encoder (stand alone or plug in for Premiere ) and Nero Burning ROM (v 4.0.56 and later)

This VCD is compatible with
1 my DVD stand-alone player Pioneer DV 525
2 a stand-alone Sony DVP-S725 player of my friend
3 my Creative dxr-2 pc HW decoder
4 Power DVD pc sw player (v.2.55)
5 Win DVD 2000 pc sw player
6 Ati dvd player v3.1 and cinemaster v2.0.36.6145 engine (you must open the \Mpegav\Avseq01.dat)
7 Windows media player


VERY IMPORTANT !!! you Must set in Panasonic encoder type MPEG1 System (.mpg) and not VCD/Pal Stream .
With Nero Burning you MUST set compatibility with Video CD v2.0 (CDI).

Output File : XXXXXX.XXX
Output Format : MPEG1 System
Duration : From 1 to XXXXX
Total Data Rate : 2324 kbits/sec
--- Video Settings ---
Data Rate : 2100 kbits/sec
Image Size : 352 pixel X 288 pixel
Frame Rate : 25 frame/sec
--- Audio Settings ---
Data Rate : 224 kbits/sec
Sampling Frequency : 44100 Hz
Channel : Stereo

--- MPEG1 Parameters ---
Quantizer Matrix : Natural Image
GOP Sequence : IBBPBBPBBPBBI...
12, 12, 3
VBV Buffer Size : 100 KBytes
Motion Compensation : Half Pel
Pel Aspect : PAL/4:3
Forced Intra Frame : No
--- Image Filter ---
Noise Reduction : None
Video Filte : None
Color Tone Correction : PC
--- Crop Processing ---
Options : None
--- Interlace Processing ---
Options : None
--- Resizing ---
Options : High-Quality

You can reduce the video data rate of course.


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[pederbc]

Very interesting! I will try it at once. I've always used the VCD setting in Panasonic or else the Adaptec wouldn't allow me to burn it. So Nero does the trick? Thanks!!

[dchip]

Thanks benedetto. I too have been making VCD's using Panasonic encoder but they don't seem to play in any DVD boxes. I too will try this procedure when time permits. I guess I can save it as a new profile once I tweak all the settings in the encoder... Do you find the the resulting files are a lot larger than ones with less color?

[pederbc]

Tried it! Worked fine for the video, but the sound was garbled. Did I do something wrong or is there something to watch out for? Maybe it's my Philips 730 player...