Specifications

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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: 6.8 What is Super Video-CD? for more
information.
6.8 What is Super Video-CD
Super Video-CD is an extension to the Video-CD specification, set up by the original Video-CD
licensees (Philips, Sony, JVC and Matsushita) in 1999. Super Video-CD uses DVD-quality
MPEG-2 video on a standard CD which runs at variable bit rates up to double speed (2.8 kbps).
This allows for 35 to 70 minutes of high quality video on a regular CD. Super Video-CD allows for
a cheap way of making discs that are playable on compatible DVD-Video players using a regular
CD-Recorder.
Since Super Video-CD uses MPEG-2 video compression instead of MPEG-1 that is used in CD-i,
and because of the fact that the disc can be played up to double speed of which a CD-i player is
not capable, a Super Video-CD cannot be played on a CD-i player. Therefore, the CD-i
application that is mandatory for Video-CD is not available on a Super Video-CD.