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VCDEasy
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Version
2.0.1
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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