On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:05:11PM -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> Any suggestions for good video editing software which can generate VCDs
> would be appreciated; I want to transfer video from my digital 8mm to
> some sort of disc format (VCD or maybe DVD some day).
> 
> And does anybody know if VCD is a universal format, e.g. will the same 
> discs play on a generic PAL DVD player, or do you have to purposely
> encode at higher res and lower framerate?  It would be convenient for
> sending home movies to my wife's family.

Well... didn't take long to answer those questions:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2496/vcdfaq.html
and
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/mpeg.html

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