Creating a DVD for Stand-Alone player from avi clips

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 15 February 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > It did indeed, and the resulting SVCD played on my stand-alone player. 
> > Sadly, though, neither Totem nor Xine could play it, although mplayer
> > could.
> >
> > A nice application, though, and I shall use it again.
>
> You have to be careful about creating SVCDs instead of VCDs. Some
> DVD players will not handle SVCDs, and I guess some programs also
> have problems. 

OK.  I'll bear that in mind.  The clip I experimented with was shot in poor 
light, so is somewhat grainy.  I assumed that VCD would give even lower 
quality than SVCD, so I'll have to remember whether other family members 
would be likely to borrow the disk.

> I had to add a pluging before Xine would play SVCDs. 
> (I don't remember what plugin - I added a bunch at once...)
>
Right - I'll search for info on that, thanks.

Anne
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