VCDs

Postby **wiggins** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:17 am

I know there are legal and licensed VCDs, but wht's a copy VCD?

Postby **Tycho** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:39 am

Probably just that. A copy of a VCD.

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:04 pm

Oh Oh I know this one...Here's the Lowdown

Postby **Tet-chan** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:30 am

wiggins wrote:I know there are legal and licensed VCDs, but wht's a copy VCD?

An exact copy of a legal vcd but its not legal. :sweat:

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:13 am

...unless you have it for legitimate backup purposes and it's allowed by the license agreement on the packaging...

And volt, strictly speaking DVD is not a format. DVD stands for Digital Video Disk, and it's just that. It's a media. The encoding format on the disc is different for whatever application you use it for. In this case, most DVDs are in MPEG layer 2 format (MPEG-2) which is generally speaking better quality. You CAN encode a DVD in MPEG-1 as well, and it's significantly smaller.

Just like you can encode MPEG-1 (what most VCDs use) format on DVDs, you can also encode MPEG-2 format onto VCDs. This is usually called an SVCD.

Intrestingly, some consumer DVD players allow you to play a DVD that has MP3s burned onto it, for a total of 4.7 gigabytes of audio. I'm thinking of doing that with all the Christmas music I can find, and taking that with me to my parents house. No wait! I'll take a DVD-R disc with me and burn it using THIER music.

Postby **wiggins** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:21 am

Oops... I bought some... :red:

I knew about fansubs and bootlegs and stuff, but... I feel ashamed of myself.... (must pray for God's forgiveness)...

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:02 pm

DVD format = aka = mpeg so

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