DVD Quality

[bur_roughs]

Hey guys

I was wondering if someone could tell me the default factory video settings for a dvd. I think its in Kbps. I also would like to know if there a program out there to verify that info ...

Thank

[manono]

Hi-

I was wondering if someone could tell me the default factory video settings for a dvd. I think its in Kbps.

If you're referring to bitrate, there are no default factory settings. Each DVD video will be encoded differently. If you'd like to find the bitrate of a retail DVD, put it in your DVD-ROM and run DVD BitRate Viewer on it.

[bur_roughs]

Thanks for the reply

Is there any benchmarks, minimum or maximum?

Thanks

[Video Head]

To the left click on "What Is DVD". There is a technical section describing DVD.

[edDV]

Most DVD authoring programs default to ~4000-6000 Kb/s ave. VBR at 720x480.

Higher quality takes you up to >8000Kb/s. 352x480 can get by with 3000-4000 Kb/s.

Commercial DVD authoring can lower bit rate through various techniques. Most important is starting with a high quality source and managing pixel motion.