General Information

SVCD unlike DivX is a standard. SVCD is NOT meant for PC playback. meaning, only do SVCD if you have a standalone player, or if you have an Hollywood Plus / DXR3 / DXR2 cards. Some might want to play SVCD on some sort of TV-Out cards such as Nvidia's or 3Dfx's, although, quality will not be the same this way. SVCD is meant for 3 CDs!. SVCD is burned using MODE2/XA, therefore, a 650MB CD can actually fit 745MB, and a 700MB CD can actually fit 797MB. SVCD quality is about as close you can get to DVD. SVCD Specs: 480x480/576 MPEG2 video, Audio: Stereo, MPEG Layer 1 or 2 Audio, 224kbits/sec.

[TMPGEnc] Advantages: Syncing guaranteed, Subtitles support, High quality. Disadvantages: Somewhat slow.

[CinemaCraft Encoder] Advantages: Syncing guaranteed, best quality, multipass support, very fast. Disadvantages: No built-in 3:2 pulldown.

[X-Men Guidelines] This guide explains how to properly rip X-Men to SVCD due to its complicated encoding method.

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