vcd or svcd

[heretyc]

When burning a downloaded film with a less than fantastic quality (400m for the whole film) is it worth coverting to svcd and have the file over 4 discs?

Thanks in advance for any help/opinions.

H

[banjazzer]

Unless the source quality is very good you are unlikely to see any advantage by going to SVCD. However, SVCD will give 50-60 minutes/CD, so you are very unlikely ever to need 4 CDs.

[heretyc]

Thanks, but I thought that you could only get 35 mins on svcd!

[banjazzer]

Maybe if you use constant bitrate. It makes sense to use variable bitrate which is in the specification of SVCD. This will give 50-60 minutes per 80 minute CD with quality equalling 35 minutes of CBR encoding. Many of the bits used are wasted using CBR.