352x480 DVD?????

[jaw2957]

I have a question. Is 352x480 dvd, in the official specs of dvd? Will it play in ALL players that play 720x480, and also play dvd-r of course? How much worse is the quality? I have hundreds of tv shows on official dvd's(friends, er, x-files, sopranos, etc.), and I want to convert them to dvd-r so I can sell the originals. At a lower resolution, you can encode at lower bit rates without getting pixelation. I want to fit shitloads of eps on a single dvd-r without haveing pixelation, which is my reasoning behind the different resolution. If anyone knows a good site explaining this, then also point me in that direction.

[Big_Jit]

352 x 480 is NOT DVD Standard.

DVD is : 720 x 480 NTSC
720 x 576 PAL

There is a tutorial listed on the Home Page of This Site for puting 480 Minutes of VCD on one DVD-R And I think one for (S)VCD too.

[AntnyMD]

352 x 480 is NOT DVD Standard.

Actually, it is. DVD supports NTSC 352x240, 352x480 and 720x480, and their PAL equivalents. The only NTSC resolution DVD does not support is 480x480, the SVCD specification.

[jaw2957]

AntnyMD, so your basically saying that if a studio released a dvd at 352x480, it would play in every single dvd player! Not just in an Apex player!!!

[Valnar]

352x480 MPEG2 is a DVD standard, although not commonplace among commerical DVD's.

[kv5]

What would the equivalent of 352x480 be in the PAL format for us UK / Europe members ?

[AlphaGeeK]

Mpeg1
NTSC 352 X 240
PAL 352 X 288

Mpeg2
NTSC
720 X 480
704 X 480
352 X 480
352 X 240 (Use progressive sequencing)

PAL
720 X 576
704 X 576
352 X 576
352 X 288

MPEG-2 video at 352 × 240 and 352 × 288 must not use the interlaced SIF format.

[Big_Jit]

I stand Corrected...