What is a SVCD?
SVCD stands for “Super VideoCD”. A SVCD is very similar to a VCD; it has the capacity to hold about 35-60 minutes on 650MB/700MB CDs with very good quality full-motion video along with up to 2 stereo audio tracks and 4 selectable subtitles. A SVCD can be played on many standalone DVD Players and on all computers with a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive with the help of a software based player like ForceWare Multimedia. • What are the differences between a VCD and a SVCD? The quality of a very good VCD is about the same as a VHS tape, except VCD is usually a bit more blurry. An SVCD has sharper picture quality than a VCD because of the higher resolution video stored on the disc. For more information on VCD and SVCD, please visit www.vcdhelp.com. Video Formats • What is DivX? DivX is a proprietary video encoding format. Content is available on the internet that makes use of this format. ForceWare Multimedia can play DivX content if the proper DivX decoders have been installed on the system. For mo