Keeper of Hellfire wrote:The only CD that can be played on every DVD-player is a VCD.
Actually, not all DVD players accept Video CDs. The one sitting on my dresser doesn't, and it's a Sylvania combo VCR/DVD model. Th only surefire way to know that it supports VCD is if it has the 'Compact Disc Digital Video' logo on it. Any others might or might not.
It is possible to author MPEG-1 VCD-spec files (or heck, full SD MPEG-1), mux them with AC3, and shoot them through a DVD authoring program. The result is perfectly spec compliant too, and no MPEG-2 (not that I think using MPEG-1 is a good idea, but if the person don't want to shell out for an MPEG-2 encoder like the one in TMPGEnc...).