[TriLUG] Burning SVCD's in Linux

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, John Walker wrote:

> My friends and I are creating some home movies of our fishing trips. The
> guy with the digital video camera is capturing the video in mpeg2
> format.
> 
> I am using Mandrake Linux 9.1 and K3b to do the SVCD creation and cd
> writing.  It works fine as long as I play them on the computer, but they
> will not play in my standalone DVD player. My DVD player can play the
> ones I created in Windows before I switched to Linux.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  Is K3b writing in a format native to Linux that
> can't be read by other players? 
> 
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Are you sure your windows program was creating *S* VCDs?  Many
DVD players cannot read SVCDs (mine can't) but can read VCDs
fine.

I'd check that first.

Tanner
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