[TriLUG] Burning SVCD's in Linux

[John Walker]

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 03:48, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 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

Thanks Tanner.  About 1/2 hour before I saw your message I talked to my
friend that owns the camera and does the encoding.  I was telling him
about my problem and he said that he was encoding in SVCD now.  We might
have to make some VCD's until I can get a new player.  Thanks.