VCDEasy allows you to play/watch
your videos (from DV camcorder, DivX, DVD,...), your pictures (from digital
camera, scanner,...) and your audio files (music, audio comments,...)
directly on most home DVD players without having to buy a DVD Writer and
DVD discs. How? VCDEasy allows you to easily build VideoCDs (VCD/SVCD)!
A VCD ("Video Compact Disc") is a CD (CD-R or CD-RW, so cheap)
that can contain up to 80 minutes video, up to 1980 pictures, up to 6
hours of audio (CD sound quality), or a mix of them. On a VCD, it is also
possible to have menus and chapters similiar to DVDs. You can also have
simple photo album/slide shows. The same way most of the home DVD player
and computers can play Audio CDs, a VCD can be played on almost all standalone
DVD players (only a few persons know that!) and of course on all computers
with a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive with the help of a software player.
Invented by Philips, the VCD was born before the DVD. VCD is a cheap
way to make DVD-like discs at home. As opposed to a DivX CD, a VCD can
be played on almost all home DVD players, i.e watched on a TV. No need
to have a computer, no need to configure it to play DivX films... Watching
a VideoCD is as simple as watching a DVD! The VideoCD, for example, is
a really great solution to share videos and pictures with familly and
friends, they only need a DVD Player and a TV!
All you need to do is to provide VCDEasy with MPEG files compliant with
the VideoCD specifications (an MPEG video encoder is already built into
VCDEasy, an MPEG audio only encoder will be included into VCDEasy soon;
until then use for example the excellent TMPGEnc encoder to MPEG your
videos). 'Novice' users can simply select (VideoCD ready) MPEG files and
click the 'go' button, while 'advanced' users can configure/use almost
all aspects of the VideoCD specifications (PlayBack Control based interactivity,
Chapters, Menus support, CD-i support...).
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