What is the difference between VCD, SVCD, DVD, and MiniDVD?
- VCD is short for "Video Compact Disc". A VCD is basically a CD that contains digital video and audio files on it. Both the video file and audio track are in MPEG-1 quality.
- SVCD stands for Super Video CD and is similar to a VCD in that it holds digital video and audio files on a CD. However, it differs in that it offers better quality video than a standard VCD because it uses MPEG-2 video.
- DVD stands for "Digital Versatile Disc" and can hold about 2 hours of very high quality MPEG-2 video and audio, due to its average 4.7 GB storage capacity. DVDs use a different type of CD to store data, as opposed to the normal 650MB CDs used by VCD and SVCD.
- MiniDVD is basically a DVD disc, but stored on the smaller 650MB CDs. On average, only around 15 minutes of video can be stored using MiniDVD.
