dvd or hdtv

[chris98007]

Hello all.

Just a quick question that i have been thinking about. I have been backing up my DVDs to divx and putting them on a server. Quality is good, not quite dvd but still good for the file size.

I was over at a friends house and we were talking about the show 24. He had missed an episode so he downloaded one. the file size was about 350megs or so. The quality was awsome, encoded with divx or xvid with a file tag suggesting it was recorded in hdtv.

I decided to backup an episode from the 1st year and compare it to his one. I swear his looked better. They were both around 350megs and divx.

So here is my question. is there a difference in a 350meg episode from a dvd or a 350meg episode from hdtv?

Anyone?

[Pinstripes23]

yes, the hdtv cap has higher resolution than dvd.

[guns1inger]

Not really. Both will have been resized down to standard resolution. The HDTV version has arguably better source, but the bottom line will be the encoder settings and the matrix used. I have seen some stuff taken from HDTV broadcasts that looks very very average when encoded to Divx.

[chris98007]

Yeah i guess my question is on the source material. Since hd is higher, will that yield a better quality then dvd if encoded to xvid or divx?

[Pinstripes23]

If you were to apply the same settings on an hdtv-source and a dvd-source and convert to XviD, the hdtv-sourced encode will look better.