VCD And SVCD

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S/VCD specs

image size

VCD:  352x240 (NTSC) or 352x288 (PAL)
SVCD: 480x480 (NTSC) or 480x576 (PAL)

rates

VCD MPEG video must be the standard 1151Kbps and audio must be 224Kbps MPEG-1 layer 2.

An SVCD video stream is variable bit-rate MPEG-2 with a maximum rate of around 2500Kbps and a video buffer size of 230KB.

SVCD NTSC/NTSC Film

Video:

max 2600 kbit/sec MPEG-2 (Audio + Video bitrate max bitrate is 2778 kbit/s).
480 x 480 pixels (CVD 352x480)
29,97 frames/second
23,976 frames/second with 3:2 pulldown (NTSC Film)
with up to 4 Selectable CVD or SVCD Subtitles

Audio:

44100 Hz
32 - 384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2 or MPEG2 Audio
with up to 2 Audio Tracks

Extra :

Menus and chapters.
Still pictures 704x480,352x240

VCD-NTSC 1.1

video
  1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1
  352x240 pixels
  29.97 frames/sec
  (23.976 frames/sec for NTSC-Film)
audio
  224 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2, sampling rate: 44,100 Hz.
total
  1440 kbit/sec

SVCD PAL

Video:
max 2600 kbit/sec MPEG-2 (Audio + Video bitrate max bitrate is 2778 kbit/s).
480 x 576 pixels (CVD 352x576)
25 frames/second
with up to 4 Selectable CVD or SVCD Subtitles

Audio:
44100 Hz
32 - 384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2 or MPEG2 Audio
with up to 2 Audio Tracks

Extra :
Menus and chapters.
Still pictures 704x576,352x288

VCD-PAL 1.1

video
  1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1
  352x288 pixels
  25 frames/sec
audio
  224 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2
total
  1440 kbit/sec

documented on: 2004.06.02