On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:19:47AM -0800, Jon Pennington wrote: > Is it possible to transcode a high-bit-rate MPEG1 stream to a lower one > without trying to completely uncompress it and recompress it? > Don't know. > Secondly, are the VCD (NTSC and PAL) standards so tight that you /must/ > use a specific bitrate for a `legal' VCD image? > Standalone VCD players will barf on streams with a bitrate that is too high. Since they are equipped with only a 1x CDROM drive, they just can't read the data fast enough to play it. Almost every DVD player that also play VCD's can play VCD disks with much higher bitrates, usually at least double the standard bitrate. But there's no guarantees. -- Brian Ristuccia brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx bristucc@xxxxxxxxxx
