Help: Convert MP2 video to what?

[Dave]

I have several home videos on CD-R, and they are in MP2 video format.
However, I cannot play them because I do not have an MP2 encoder. I
temporarily downloaded Elecard's MP2 player to view them.

Now, the MP2's average 100-150MB in size. I would like to convert my MP2's
following these criteria, if possible:
1) A more easily accessible video format such as WMV or AVI
2) Smaller filesize
3) Minimal loss in quality
This is for the purpose of getting more of them onto a CD-R.

I think I'd like to convert the MP2's to either WMV or AVI format - or even
RealPlayer format. But I'm not sure which one(s) is/are the best idea. Can
anyone give me some pointers? Any information is appreciated. Thanks!

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- Dave
http://members.cox.net/grundage/

 

[Dave]

Awesome! Thanks for the help.

One more question. What is the difference between the VCD, SVCD, and DVD
extensions? Do they differ in filesize?

I would like to be able to play them in my DVD player one day, but what do I
choose?

 

[Test Man]

Try GX Transcoder from http://www.board-24.de/portal.php

You might want to convert them to the more accessible MPEG format (although
the file size will be larger)

 

[Peter Hutchison]

Awesome! Thanks for the help.

One more question. What is the difference between the VCD, SVCD, and DVD
extensions? Do they differ in filesize?

VCD/SVCD will use the old MPEG1 format, DVD will use MPEG2 format
which is higher quality and higher compression. Region coding uses
compression on top of MPEG2 compression.

See http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/index.html

Peter Hutchison