Before buying VCDEasy, it is important to try the trial version in order to be sure VCDEasy works fine on your computer.
Windows Media Player v6.4 (or above) is mandatory.
A working MPEG2 codec is not mandatory, but will give you some extra features.
VCDEasy allows you to play your videos (from DV camcorder, DivX, DVD,...), your pictures (from digital camera, scanner,...) and your audio files on most of the home DVD Players. How ? VCDEasy allows you to build easily VideoCDs (VCD/SVCD)! All you need to do is to provide VCDEasy with MPEG files compliant with the VideoCD specifications. 'Novice' users can simply select (VideoCD ready) MPEG files and click the 'go' button, while 'advanced' users can configure/use almost all aspects of the VideoCD specifications (PlayBack Control based interactivity, Chapters, Menus support, CD-i support...).