Showing SVCD?

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I spent a day making a 'video' of photos and music for my son and
daughter-in-law. (I used a program I bought recently called
MemoriesOnTV, which allows 3 options for output: VCD, SVCD and DVD; I
chose SVCD, as I don't have a DVD writer on this XP PC.) The resultant
CD-R played fine on my TV via my 2-year old DVD player. But I was
surprised to find that my son's DVD player could not play it,
presumably because, being older, it doesn't support SVCD. (No mention
of SVCD in the user guide.)

I then tried it on his XP PC, but WMP reported that it didn't have the
necessary decoder. Can I download a suitable decoder to achieve this
please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

To play an SVCD on a PC you'll need a DVD decoder.....

You can purchase the whole player or just the software codecs at
www.intervideo.com or www.gocyberlink.com.

To check what formats your son's DVD player can handle, check at
www.videohelp.com
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www.coribright.com

In Loving Memory of our dear friend Alex Nichol MVP

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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>I spent a day making a 'video' of photos and music for my son and
> daughter-in-law. (I used a program I bought recently called
> MemoriesOnTV, which allows 3 options for output: VCD, SVCD and DVD; I
> chose SVCD, as I don't have a DVD writer on this XP PC.) The resultant
> CD-R played fine on my TV via my 2-year old DVD player. But I was
> surprised to find that my son's DVD player could not play it,
> presumably because, being older, it doesn't support SVCD. (No mention
> of SVCD in the user guide.)
>
> I then tried it on his XP PC, but WMP reported that it didn't have the
> necessary decoder. Can I download a suitable decoder to achieve this
> please?
>
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK
>
>