Re: VideoCD a must have

WMM2 may not be the "best thing" out there, but I also think it's pretty
decent (my biggest gripe about most other packages is that they aren't a
very "Windows like" application - I don't want fancy skins to make a program
look like a piece of hardware).

I think the lack of VCD/DVD support in WMM2 has to be the #1 complain in
this newsgroup. Microsoft may be listening; see the "DVD movie making"
section near the end of
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcas...review_2003.asp. Although
since this is part of "Longhorn", don't expect to see it anytime soon
(current estimates are late 2005 to early 2006...by then we'll probably all
have DVD writers and won't care about VCDs anymore).

Finally, note that there is *NO* hardware available (to consumers, at
least - there is probably something in a R&D lab somewhere) that can play
the HighMAT CDs created by WMM2. The HighMAT players currnetly available
only support music and images, not video.

Dan

"Mel Grubb" <not@gonnahappen.com> wrote in message
news:0bcf01c37799$c39ec610$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I wouldn't mind if due to licensing problems, I had to
> buy an add on for Movie Maker, but VideoCD and DVD
> support is an absolute must.
>
> The HighMAT format support is neat and all, but does
> anyone have a device that supports it? I'm already all
> set when it comes to DVD players, so I'm not planning to
> run out and get a new one just to support a new format.
> For the most part no-one's grandmother is going to
> either. If Grandma HAS a DVD player at all, then the VCD
> format should be usable be her.
>
> I hate every piece of software that I've ever seen
> bundled with anything. Sonic MyDVD requires the input
> files to be AVI in order to do scene detection, and then
> it doesn't work. I ran a 20 minute film through its
> scene detection, and it found only three breaks... there
> are more like 50. WMM found them all, the first time.
>
> In short WMM is the best thing I've found for editing the
> files, but if I can't share them with anyone, then what's
> the point?
>
> MG2