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Sheldon Yip (sheld@direct.ca)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 01:17:21 -0700
At 05:13 PM 8/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> DVD is MPEG format level 3 you need a DVD player to watch the video.
>>
>> VCD is MPEG format level 2 all you need is 24x cd-rom, any MPEG viewing
>> program to watch the video and a good video card (8 meg).
>
>Um, DVD is MPEG-II, not 3. You need a DVD player or a DVD-ROM. If you do
>not have an MMX processor, then you also need a decoder card for your
>DVD-ROM.
>
>VCD is MPEG-I. All you need is a CD-ROM drive and Windows Media Player. A
>24x CD-ROM and 8MB of RAM is defintely excessive for playing VCDs.
>
>DVDs are read with a higher frequency laser, allowing more information to
>be stored on them. A DVD holds approximately 4 GBs of data while a CD
>holds about 650 MB of data.
>
>--
>Wayland Chang
>wcchang@force.stwing.upenn.edu
>http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~wcchang/
>
Thanks. Nice to know.
I was lead to believe DVD was MPEG lvl 3.