THAT much more advantage in DVD over SVCD(or even VCD)?

[joeAgain------]

All I'm wanting to do is to capture my VHS family videos to disks.

Is there really much clarity advantage in burning DVD as opposed to SVCD(or even fast bitrate VCD)??

Keeping in mind I have no interest in chaptering, etc....what advantages are there in doing DVD over the others, please.

thank you
(I guess I need to be educated)

[Craig Tucker]

Well as your source is only VHS I would say no, apart from the amount of video you could get on one disc.

Craig

[joeAgain------]

That's kind of what my experimenting is showing me.

I've got a DVD burner with Veritas burning software that will burn any files I want to put on the DVD disk. Even VCD and SVCD videos.

So, I think I can put a huge amount of "time" onto a disk in non-DVD format, but still take advantage of the 4.7Gig disk size.

And have an APEX AD-1100W player(along with all my relatives)that will play anything you can burn. So I guess I may be able to put maybe 4 1/2 hrs of copied video onto one disk.

Has anybody done that?

[Sulik]

The key advantage of DVD vs SVCD is the higher maximum bitrate.
SVCD would look much better (especially in high motion scenes) if you could use the same average bitrate (2.3Mbps) but have a maximum bitrate of 4+Mbps.

(I guess you can make a non standard SVCD for that though).

[tmcmvd]

S-VCD gives a nice quality if you don't want to enlarge or watch on large screen television. DVD has a higher maximum bitrate for fast moving video. This high bitrate can be used for s-vcd also, but an ordinary cd cannot be read that fast.

Bottom line, if the source permits it and is good enough make a DVD.
Want more movie on the disk. lower the bitrate = less quality.
DVD style disc can be read in almost any dvd player.

S-VCD or VCD on DVD disk gives some compatibility problems, and is basically the same as DVD in a lower bitrate.

DVD has a higher resolution/detail...

In ten years high definition television may show the difference in quality...you cannot do it over then

Good SVCD quality takes up 800 MB for almost 30 minutes of video.

Source DVD/DV make a DVD....otherwise SVCD is good enough.

[homerpez]

VHS SOURCE and/or ANALOG (INTERLACED) TV = SVCD

COMPUTER PLAYBACK and/or HDTV = DVD

Basically, if you have an SVCD encoded well, with a decent VBR or enough bitrate, it looks like DVD on a standard TV (I don't notice any difference at all, frankly).

To me, it's as simple as noticing that CD-R's cost mere pennies, while DVD-R's cost $$$$$$$$$$