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I have had a lot of experience in writing Mini dvd's on the PC, ALso vcd and
SVCD.

Yes its true only a handful of dvd standalone players play SVCDs and Mini
DVDs.

SVCDs is just a compat issue.

Mini DVDs, Quite easy to explain, DVD or DVD-Video are a standard for which
video is encoded to a disk in a specific format like ISO 9660, DVD Video
uses a content/video format called M-Udf Bridge.
When you make a mini dvd it does not burn it as an M-Udf file just content.
99 percent of dvd players look for Video First (Video Content) and so the
player recognises it as a dvd.
Content first is rarely read first so most arnt recognised at all.

Almost all dvd rom drives recognise dvd-content or dvd-video so you will see
most work on pcs or mac.

To make mini dvds (DVD-content first) on the pc, You can author in most dvd
packages and save the whole complete dvd as Video_TS folder on your hard
disk and burn to cd as is.
Or create a image which can be burnt using a dvd writer.
Some cd writers can write udf images and thus create video first but there
is only one i know of.

SVCDs Are made quite easily on the pc using nero 5.5 or videopak 5.
Simply import your footage and edit in your favorite package, Output to full
resolution and import into your mpeg encoder.
On the PC the choice for me was TMPenc which could encode varible Bit rates
and give me some absolutle stunning results.

I have 2 solutions to edit and author dvds on.
PC has a matrox G400 marvel svideo in and sb live 128.
Editing on adobe premier 5.5 and after fx and boris, Hollywood Fx bronze.
Output to card as svideo to Formac DV Bridge plugged into either G4
Superdrive or New Imac.

These are edited if needed on final cut pro 2.
Then authored at the moment in idvd2 but soon DVD STudio Pro.
(NE One know where I Can get it cheap?)


Hope this helps everyone and clears the mini dvd thing up...

Mike

Visual Solutions
"Steve Fenwick" <no-return-address@see-below.invalid> wrote in message
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> In article <4bW18.8060$Ln2.2799204@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net>,
>  "David McCall" <david@techshop.net> wrote:
>
> > One thing to consider is that some of the new
> > slot loading CD players that have no tray, can't
> > use mini CDs. I don't know of any slot loading
> > DVDs yet, but they will probably be coming soon.
>
> The DVDs on the Titanium PowerBooks are slot-loaders, and are (at least)
> DVD-ROM drives.
>
> Steve
>
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