good bitrate & resolution for movie?

[OutSider]

whats the best to find out?
i know what you will say, try it ...
i'm planning on 2x42minutes on 1 700MB CDR
so that would be a bitrate of 1032kBits/s
but now the resolution ...
i record in full dvd kwality (MpegII - 720x576 - 6400kbps - 224kbps audio - VBR)
but now i'm looking for a good resolution, wich i cant seem to find
so far ive used 360x240 but then the subtitles looked extremely blurry, and the movie itself also
but what im trying to do now i want to have PERFECT!
so i'm asking your help ...

greetz

[yoda313]

Hello,

Half d1 resolution is 352x480 (NTSC) I believe. That should work for dvd captures.

Kevin

[OutSider]

after trying some resolutions i got from some recordings from a friend & some of my own
tried resolutions:
480x352
480x352, interlaced
640x368, interlaced
640x512, interlaced
720x576, (original)
the original settings came out best ....
atleast thats what i think ... if someone can tell me a tool to take screenshots with for only the screen, i'll post them, so you can see
but is that possible that the original have the best results ... i mean, i never ever saw a rip that was the same resolution .... not even at these bitrates ...
added images

[OutSider]

added photes in RAW format so they should be 100% identical

[junkmalle]

Are you looking to create MPEG files for playing on a DVD player? Or AVI files for watching on a computer?

[OutSider]

Xvid encoded AVI files
i recorded the files as MpegII because of the perfect quality, and now i'm planning to put them in AVI (350MBx2)

[junkmalle]

I couldn't view your RAW files. I don't have anything that will open them. Could you post a few as JPG instead?

I convert 720x480 (NTSC) MPEG 2 files to XVID AVI all the time. I usually inverse telecine and reduce to 640x480 for the proper aspect ratio on a computer (and my DIVX/DVD player handles that size well). If I can't inverse telecine I usually use VirtualDub's deinterlace filter and throw away one field (720x480 --> 720x240), then Resize to 640x480 with the Lanczos3 filter. That's rough on subtitles though.

~1000 kbps is a little low for 640x480 frame size unless you have a dark, low motion, low noise source. It looks like you've been trying something close to what I'd recommend: 640x480, 512x384 or 480x360. I would think your subtitles would remain readable with one of the better resizing filters at those resolutions.

[junkmalle]

I was almost able to view the file you called 480x352 non-interlaced. I see you are labeling the files with the height first, width second. All the values I suggested were width x height.

[OutSider]

ill make some new ons in 100% jpeg quality,
and its width first, then height
but i noticed that when i play them on my TV (using TV out from R9800pro) that the subtitles are almost perfect, as well on lower resolutions ...