DVD Compression Questions

[Alienverse]

Hey all,

This isn't really a technical question but more of a general question. I asked my friend the other day if I could borrow one of his Star Trek boxsets and he was a bit hesitant (he's a big Trekker, 'nough said). He told me that he uploaded the entire first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation boxset onto his computer and was willing to burn the entire season onto one DVD for me. I immediately inquired about the quality and he says he will be using this program that has good quality compression (not sure what it is called). I was just wondering if maybe some experts here could tell me what kind of quality I will be looking at here. If there are 20 episodes or so on a single DVD, I can't imagine the quality being that great. If anyone could give me some more information on this, that would be great. Thank you very much!

[guns1inger]

Even if they were converted to Xvid avi, the quality would be average at best. Perhaps with x264 they would be acceptable. If he is offering you a DVD, playable in a standard DVD player, with that many episodes on it, expect it to be well below VHS standard.

[Baldrick]

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