Is 480 x 576 possible on DVD?

[Khoji]

Here in Germany many TV stations broadcast PAL films in 480x576 instead of 720x576. My Pinnacle PCTVSAT capture card always captures in the broadcast format, so I often have films in 480x576.

I'm considering getting a DVD burner and was wondering if the DVD format is 100% set on a rigid 720x576 format or is it possible to use 480x576 as well? Converting the 480x576 films up to the higher resolution would just waste space and time and probably wouldn't bring any real quality improvement, so I figure it would be great if you could get more film onto a DVD and convert faster by using the broadcast resolution.

Possible, or just a pipe dream?

Khoji

[Two2Tango]

DVD format is pretty much set, but if you have a CD burner you produce VCD, SVCD which will also play on DVD player. TMPGenc will produce both NTSC and PAL files. Check the DVD comparison site for your model just to be sure it will play on your DVD player.

Two2tango

[Two2Tango]

DVD format is pretty much set, but if you have a CD burner you can produce VCD or SVCD files with TMPGenc which will also play on a DVD player. TMPGenc will produce both NTSC and PAL files. Check the DVD comparison site for your model just to be sure the files will play on your DVD player.

Two2tango

[Spock]

I'm not entirely sure about the 480x576 but I have successfully used my HP200i (DVD+R/RW) to produce a DVD that has SVCD encoded files in 480x480(NTSC standard size) complete with a menu that allows me to select which show I want to watch. It works great on my player!

I followed the guide on this site to put SVCD on DVD but I didn't use SpruceUp or the other DVD Authoring software mentioned. In my case I chose to use Pinnacle's Impression DVD Pro.

Spock

[Khoji]

I'm not entirely sure about the 480x576 but I have successfully used my HP200i (DVD+R/RW) to produce a DVD that has SVCD encoded files in 480x480(NTSC standard size) complete with a menu that allows me to select which show I want to watch. It works great on my player!

Cool...that would definitely be a good solution for these low-format movies, which I'm currently storing on 3-4 SVCDs... I imagine it would also be possible to improve the quality by upping the data rate a little on the DVD format.

[Khoji]

I'm not entirely sure about the 480x576 but I have successfully used my HP200i (DVD+R/RW) to produce a DVD that has SVCD encoded files in 480x480(NTSC standard size) complete with a menu that allows me to select which show I want to watch. It works great on my player!

Cool...that would definitely be a good solution for these low-format movies, which I'm currently storing on 3-4 SVCDs... I imagine it would also be possible to improve the quality by upping the data rate a little on the DVD format.