Hi, I"m hearing alot lately from friends that an SVCD is much better than a VCD. They are saying the picture quality is better. If you download a movie and it's not a dvd rip...then the quality is only as good as the downloaded movie isn't it? Or is it? Should I be making SVCD's instead? I have made VCD's from DVD ripped movies and they are awesome. I tried making a SVCD but I couldn't with my TMPGE encoder..it kept saying I needed an MPEG codec....should I download this? Also, do you know of any other sites besides KaZaa to download movies from?? Thanks, Cirsinn
SVCD as a format is more advanced than VCD, but has a small problem, in that it takes up more space, so you often need 3 CDRs. You are correct that downloaded movies are as good as they are, but if you encode them again, like making them a VCD or SVCD if they were a divx, then you will make them even worse. You need to pay for TMPGEnc if you want SVCD (MPEG2) facility. And please don't ask us where to download movies. Paul.
Sorry, forgot that I'm not supposed to ask that......it's illegal..gotta remember that..ha ha. Thanks again, cirsinn
