quality

[double07]

quality of a movie burned to a vcd is only as good as the file itself, so making it a svcd, the quality wont be any better than vcd. correct??

[ktnwin]

It does. Let's say VCD is 70% of original quality, then SVCD could be 85% to 90%. The max is obviously 100% of the original quality.

[Kdiddy]

"Let's say VCD is 70% of original quality, then SVCD could be 85% to 90%."

Just to clarify, that is only an example that may be little misleading to some people (newbs). Using STANDARD VCD/SVCD would actually translate into VCD=12%-15% of DVD and SVCD=26%-35% of DVD, IF we just use bitrate as a measurement of quality...thats very basic, but because there are many other factors, the perceptual quality difference may be higher or lower...but the overall forum opinion is that SVCD more often maintians a better quality of the orginal source (assuming that source is DVD, since you said "movie&quot

[mikewg]

What if I bought a VCD from someone? So I no longer have access to the original source. If the VCD is 70% of the original source, it's still 100% of what's available to me now. I shouldn't be able to move to SVCD and have 125% of what's available to me, can I? Can I take the current VCD file I have (and that's all I have) and resave it as a SVCD and end up with better quality? I think that's what the original person was asking, and I'm curious about this myself.

[thxkid]

You can't make a original VCD look any better than it is, possible if you were to encode over to SVCD you would loose nothing in quality from the original, but if you took the .dat file from the original VCD changed it over to an .mpg and burned it as another VCD, if this was possible, then your copy would look just like the original. The real reason a SVCD looks better than a VCD is that usually you start out with a source that is of higher quality than VCD and SVCD like DVD, Laser Disc, DV Video or Hi8mm.

[DiViNeLeFT]

to put this in laymans terms... you cant polish a terd... if you convert a vcd to svcd it wont make it look any better. it will only look as good as the source vcd.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: DiViNeLeFT on 2001-10-18 16:29:42 ]</font>