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To: J.S. who wrote (30738)	3/11/1998 6:52:00 AM
From: John Mireley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

>MPEG-2 being a standard means -- hence decodeable by any MPEG-2 decoder Not true. I've been burning video cds and trying them out in PC-DVD systems I've found locally. While I am using MPEG1, the MPEG2 standard includes MPEG1. I've found some problems with the HP/Zoran, and Gateway/Compcore systems. The HP/Zoran system had no vcd player and the video quality suffered. The Gateway/Compcore system had a vcd player and good video quality it could not extract the audio stream. I purchased a Creative Encore to get a CD-RW drive to save my CD-R-RW burner. It's latest software upgrade has a new vcd player. It has the best video I've looked at, except for the software decoders on our SGI workstations. I've also been taking the vcd's to the discount electronics stores to try them out. I've only found one Sony and two Panasonics that will play them. A Toshiba will find the tracks and read them but displays nothing. Even the Sony and Panasonics will not play the same media. So far I've tried two CD-RW and one CD-R media types. I've got in an assortment of CD-R media with different dyes. I hope to find one, maybe the new blue/silver dye, that will play in more of the CE dvd players that are labeled vcd. Here is a link to the mpeg1 stream I'm testing. For anyone interested it was created with a Snazzi/DEC encoder and a Sony 8 mm camcorder. It is a 60 mb file. I would like to burn a vcd with a mpeg1 stream from a Dazzle/Cube encoder if any one has one to offer. mireley.tcimet.net