Naruto on VCD or DVD???

[VTEC9000]

I have some episodes of Naruto in AVI(divx) format and wish to convert it to a format which allows me to play on my DVD player.

Can someone tell me which format is the best to use, i want quality and be able to fit quite a few episodes on one DVD disc.

Thanks, for anyone who can help me.

[Gazorgan]

i want quality and be able to fit quite a few episodes on one DVD disc.

Is Oxymoronic. You get one or the other.

What are the details on the source files? Garbage in = Garbage out

[VTEC9000]

OK. Let me put it a different way.

Answer this question if u convert divx(animations) to VCD or DVD.

Pls give me an opinion to which is better(or you prefer) conveting to VCD on a DVD-R or converting to DVD(mpeg2) on DVD-R.

[VTEC9000]

some help pls

[teegee420]

Let's assume first that your source files are of decent quality, in which case you will want to convert to DVD mpegs. If you use a target bitrate of 4000kb you can fit about seven 22 minute episodes on a 4.7 GB DVD. If you want quality, you're not going to squeaze much more eps than that on a DVD. However, if your AVI's are "just ok" quality, you might want to consider VCD, which can fit about three 22(or so) minute eps on one 80 minute CD-R.

[VTEC9000]

Thanks for the info Teegee420, just what i need to get me started. There should be more helpful people like u, unlike some idiots.

[Kane]

I would suggest you convert the episodes to SVCD. This way I burned 9 episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist on one disc. I think it is much better than VCD because you can read the subtitles better.

[bugster]

Thanks for the info Teegee420, just what i need to get me started. There should be more helpful people like u, unlike some idiots.

I would be careful who you are calling an Idiot, what Gazorgan said was absolutley correct, Garbage in = Garbage out. If your source is excellent quality (and that is subjective anyway), then DVD with full D1 (720 * 480 res, high bitrate) is the way to go. Then we go to DVD with 1/2 D1 res (352 * 480, lower bitrate) and then you can go SVCD or VCD.

Higher bitrate = higher quality = lower playing time.

As an example, a 2hour divx movie that is 1.4Gb is probably worth a full 4.7G DVD with an average bitrate of 4500Kbits. If your two hour divx movie is only 700Mb, I would encode it at 1/2 D1 resolution with an average bitrate of around 3Kbits, leaving room for another hours worth of equivalent quality material on the disk if I so wished. (these are my personal guidelines and not hard and fast rules)

I know you are talking episodes, not movies, but the same principal apllies as it is overall playing time that matters. If you have a DVD burner, I wouldn't bother with VCD or SVCD on CD media. VCD video is OK for DVD, but SVCD is not compliant. In all cases your audio should be at 48Khz sample rate.

Hope this helps.

[Kane]

@bugster:

Why do you say thar SVCD is not compliant? That depends on your DVD Player. I have no problems with SVCDs on DVD.

[bugster]

@bugster:

Why do you say thar SVCD is not compliant? That depends on your DVD Player. I have no problems with SVCDs on DVD.

Just because your DVD player will happily play SVCD on DVD does not make it part of the DVD-Video standard. See here .

Your current player is happy with them, but what happens when you replace it, there will be no guarantees these same DVD's will play correctly or at all.

FYI, my DVD player is happy with them too, but I only use SVCD on DVD-Video if the source material is in SVCD spec to start with. I will never encode it that way myself.

[ZippyP.]

FYI, my DVD player is happy with them too, but I only use SVCD on DVD-Video if the source material is in SVCD spec to start with. I will never encode it that way myself.

And the difference between SVCD and 1/2 D1 isn't that great anyway.