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.