SVCD codec

[jparnold]

I think I will have to give up on recovering those old SVCD movie files as neither of the 'disk recovery' programs could read them both stalling at the same point.
Thanks for all you help.
John

[lata]

Its a matter of size. I use DVD's and old HDD for archiving.
I prefer to use many small buckets than to use large well so hopefully if corrosion will make a hole not the whole water lost.

Asik
at the time when I and John burnt SVCD the option to burn a DVD was not available.
Most PC came with CD Drives, DVD drives were rare and a DVD Writer was unheard of.
VHS or Betamax was the only option to play video on our tv DVD players were not available.

When DVD finally was available the cost was certainly beyond my budget until computers were providing DVD support / playback.
we are getting on a bit and can remember the old days, I think?

As for archiving to HDD, at the time a 120Mb HDD was as good as it gets.
I started using video Studio with Ulead VS5

A lot has changed in the past 20 years.

[jparnold]

Some interesting and true history Trevor.
Also there were only CRT (cathode ray tubes) monitors and TV sets and the largest TV size was about 26 inches (66cm) and no such thing as HD (high definition) in fact not even SD (standard definition - 576i). Really terrible resolution.

Here is some more trivia Trevor and for the benefit of the younger generation (I found this info in the notes I made on the CD cover insert) and what we used back in 2000-2002) -
Edited with Ulead Video Studio v4 SE (I got this free when I purchased a Firewire card (for my PC) which allowed me to connect my video camera (which used magnetic tape) to my PC to get that video into digital files in the PC).
Sharpened with Ulead Media Studio v6 SE (I also used Media Studio for video effects such as picture in picture which Video Studio v4 didn't have)
Converted/rendered to MPEG2 using TMPGEnc (I used TMPGenC for features which the rendering by Video Studio v4 didn't have)with the following
Variable bit rate with Max bitrate 2320 and Min bit rate 1800 - oh how terrible was that
Motion search precision - High Quality

Does that bring back memories?

Thank goodness we don't have to do that today and have HEAPS better definition - consumer video cameras these days cable of 4K and cheap in comparison.

[asik1]

Trevor, I'm not that young.. my first CD burner I bought also at 97-98 .
I spent over 200$ on EZflyer that used 230Mb cartridges before that.
My first PC was a used genuine 8088 IBM with 10Mb HDD in 1990 running DOS3 and later DOS5.

I did recommended it before, for archive DB I use cathy
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/
where it holds my ~300 DB files.

[jparnold]

Well can we call you Robert then?
DOS. I remember it clearly having 'migrated' from a Z80 (cpu).
Thanks for the link and some interesting software and links which I will check out later.
Bratislava is a nice place having briefly visited it a few years ago as part of a European river cruise.