About Baldrick's VCD on DVD Guide

[roach76]

In the short time I have been into Video encoding I have become hooked. I am now seriously considering purchasing a DVD Burner. I'm just learning more about it before I decide if it's worth taking the plunge.

I have just noticed that Baldrick has placed a guide on putting VCD MPEG-1 onto a DVD+/-/R/RW to fit more playing time onto 1 disc. This sounds like a good idea except for the fact it defeats one major purpose which Baldrick implies as well, that DVDs were designed for their higher quality, and not to store 7 1/2 hours of low quality video.

My suggestion is can't there be a comprimise? With DVD supporting these resolutions:

MPEG-2, 525/60 (NTSC): 720x480, 704x480, 352x480
MPEG-2, 625/50 (PAL): 720x576, 704x576, 352x576
MPEG-1, 525/60 (NTSC): 352x240
MPEG-1, 625/50 (PAL): 352x288

My question is, instead of using MPEG-1 352x240. Why not use MPEG-2 352x480. With the higher resolution you can get better picture quality, maybe not 7 1/2 hours worth but more than enough to store 95% of all movies ever made on one DVD.

[disturbed1]

Sure, that's common knowledge.

The guide is for converting VCD files to DVD.

Notice the dir. and file name.

"J:\MPEGAV\AVSEQ01.DAT"

It allows many people to consolidate 3-4 already made VCDs (6-8 cds) to one DVD.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: disturbed1 on 2001-12-22 21:23:24 ]</font>