In the Americas and Europe, we use DVDs, but in Asia, they use VCD, SVCD, DVCD, but not DVDs. Being here, I’ve learned to convert DVDs and DivX files into VCD format so it can be played on the TV.
Today I had to decide whether to convert the Home Alone DVD into either a VCD or SVCD. A SVCD is a “super” VCD and it’s quality is better than a normal VCD.
I started processing and after about 2 hours, I realized that it was going to take 4+ hours for the conversion, so I cancelled it and decided to create a VCD with only takes 90 minutes.
I’ve learned quite a lot about how to convert an AVI file into a VCD being here in Asia. And I’ve also learned how to include English (or any other language) into the finished converted VCD.
And I’ve also had to learn the hard way that VCDs must be burned at 4X or less to work in some VCD players. When I first started, I was burning VCDs like I burn other CDs, but they didn’t play in our old VCD player. After some investigation on the internet, I found out the above information — not more than 4X speed burn rate for VCDs. That was a gottcha.
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