Is VideoCD compatible with DVD?
Sometimes. It’s not required by the DVD spec, but it’s trivial to support the White Book standard since any MPEG-2 decoder can also decode MPEG-1 from a Video CD. Panasonic, RCA, Samsung, and Sony models play Video CDs. Japanese Pioneer models play Video CDs but American models don’t. Toshiba players don’t play Video CDs. VCD resolution is 352×288 for PAL and 352×240 for NTSC. The way most DVD players and Video CD players deal with the difference is to chop off the extra lines or add blank lines. When playing PAL VCDs, the Panasonic and RCA NTSC players apparently cut the entire 48 lines (17%) off the bottom and none off the top. The Sony looks better. [Does anyone know if it cuts 24 lines off the top and the bottom, or if it scales the full picture to fit?] Most DVD-ROM computers will be able to play Video CDs (with the right software), since its already possible with current-model CD-ROM computers. Note: Many Asian VCDs achieve “two” soundtracks by putting one language on the left ch
