Rui CarmoVideo CD, a pre-DVD format that is very useful for making digital photo albums without recording expensive (and near-empty) DVDs. It’s the best of both worlds: You can hand out something cheap that people can slot into their DVD player and view right away, and they can view the full-resolution photos in their PC or Mac.
The VCD 2.0 format lets you display 704x576 or 352x288 stills or video clips (the PAL MPEG-1 stream format is 352x288 at 25fps - a 1150Kbps bit rate), and you can add another top-level folder with whatever files you like (I usually create an “Originals” folder with the full-res photos).
Links
- http://www.svcdhelp.com (DVD compatibility and format information)
Tools
- Missing Mpeg Tools (tools for [MPEG][mpeg] manipulation and VCD menu creation)
- iMovie and Toast
- vcdtoolsX
- VCDGear ([CLI][cli] version for Mac OS X)
- Nero (for Windows, generates basic menus automatically)
- GNU VCDImager
- VCDEasy
- HandBrake
- DivIllusion