What is Video-CD 3.0?
Video-CD 3.0 does officially not exist. The only versions of the Video-CD specification released to date by the official Video-CD creators Philips, Sony, JVC and Matsushita are 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. Some Chinese Video-CD players claim compatibility with Video-CD 3.0. It is unclear what they refer to, or wether all so-called Video-CD 3.0 players refer to the same system. They should at least be able to play ‘real’ Video-CDs. 6.7 What is CVD or Chao-Ji? CVD and Chao-Ji are two of the extensions to Video-CD that were developed in China. Both systems use MPEG2 to encode video and hence the discs are not compatible with Video-CD or CD-i players. Both systems are also not interchangable with each other. In order to accomplish for a worldwide standard for MPEG-2 on CD, the original Video-CD companies created Super Video-CD. A true Super Video-CD can however be played on both CVD and Chao-Ji players, since it uses subsets of both systems. Refer to What is Super Video-CD? for more information. 6.8
