On November 12, 2003 12:11 pm, Sean A. Walberg wrote:

A few links and projects that handled transcoding and making of [S]VCDs were mentioned last night. Could anyone who was taking notes post a summary?

Thanks,

Sean

The ones I remember are mencoder (part of MPlayer), svcd-help.com (I haven't looked at this yet), and vcdmaker (a program).

There is also a shell script called avi2svcd. It doesn't seem to work for me.

Perhaps someone can point me to a HowTo as well. There seems to be much more on ripping than there is on authoring. In fact it's almost overwhelming.

Also I did notice a useful program a few weeks ago on freshmeat. It allowed the user to create a rudimentary menu. Don't ask me what it was called.

Later Mike

According to Sean A. Walberg:

A few links and projects that handled transcoding and making of [S]VCDs were mentioned last night. Could anyone who was taking notes post a summary?

The GNU program I mentioned, but couldn't remember the actual name, was "vcdimager". If you go to their home page, it says the site is closed as a protest against software patents, and it redirects you somewhere else (swpat.ffii.org). But, you can still go to specific pages within the site if you enter their URL's. A good one to look at is this...

http://www.vcdimager.org/links.phtml

It contains links to documentation, and various other utilities and guides that may be helpful. What I haven't yet found, which would be helpful too, is a good tutorial overview of the different formats and encodings involved in VCD's and DVD's and what the layout and content of the ISO image portion is supposed to be.