Burning a movie on a DVD

[T 3 X]

Howdy

I wish to purchase a DVD burner however my question is:

1)Can I rip a DVD using programs like DVDx and then burn a SVCD type quality movie onto a DVD removing the need to use 2 - 3 VDs?

T 3 X

[mijman]

SVCD is not a supported frame size for DVDs. VCD is, however.

[JHebert]

Acceptable formats to my knowledge include mpeg-2 at 720x480 or 704x480 or 352x480 (max 9.8Mb/s), and mpeg-1 at 352x240 (max 1.8Mb/s) for authoring a DVD.
You can't use 480x480 as mijman said. So if you are converting existing SVCD to DVD you would have to re-encode the movie. Also some XVCD may not be have valid streams for DVD. For new conversions just use one of the accepted standards.
DVD also requires audio at 48Khz whereas VCD and SVCD use 44Khz audio.
If you meant creating a VCD or SVCD file and directory structure on a DVD-R disk, I don't think the DVD player would know how to handle it so it may not work at all.

[T 3 X]

Thanks for that.

At the moment I'm using DVDx to create (X)SVCDs etc to play on my Pioneer standalone DVD player. Im ending up with exceptional quality disks but sometimes if its a big movie I might get 3 disks. Im not complaining at that because I prefer quality as opposed to quantity (only using 1 cd).

My point is that would there be any benefit in buying a DVD burner where I dont have to use 3 CDs?

Im sure there are a lot of other people out there that are thinking the same.

Cheers... T 3 X