DvD question on bitrate and video quality. Expert advice is needed

[countryboy2k5]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure something out here. I'm new to all of this and my questions are this. I have several movies that are huge and can only get 48-50% video quality using clonedvd2. Now at lets say at 50% video quality is this to say the bitrate is around 2,500Kbs, considering a dvd is 5000Kbs? And if this is the case, at 50% video quality it would be close to an svcd quality since svcd is around 2000Kbs?

I'm also wondering if I could convert these dvds to svcd and use a higher quality bitrate than a standard svcd and burn them back onto a dvd disc.

Thanks to everyone who can help.

[redwudz]

That's probably about equivalent to SVCD quality. Have you tossed out all the extras, languages, subtitles, all the audio except for 5.1 audio?

If you want better quality, split it to two discs.

Converting to SVCD then to DVD will just lose more quality.

Or try DVDShrink with deep analysis if CloneDVD2 won't do it.

[countryboy2k5]

That's probably about equivalent to SVCD quality. Have you tossed out all the extras, languages, subtitles, all the audio except for 5.1 audio?

If you want better quality, split it to two discs.

Converting to SVCD then to DVD will just lose more quality.

Or try DVDShrink with deep analysis if CloneDVD2 won't do it.

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Yes, I've gotten rid of all extras, all the audios ect.

I'm not sure if I want to split it into 2 disc or not. For one I'm not sure how to do it and i'm not sure if I have the programs for it.

If I converted the dvd to svcd, then used max bitrate possible to fit on a dvd disc instead of lets say 3 cd-r's, how would that lose more quality than the 50% clonedvd2 says.

And I used to have shrink, i'll have to look for it. But, I'm not sure what deep analysis does. The only problem I have with shrink from what I remember is it asks me to use like blank pictures for files I don't need and when I play it in the dvd player it goes through each blank page until movie starts. How can I use shrink to do what clonedvd2 does and get rid of all that stuff, but not show blank pages that load when dvd is in player.

Thanks for the reply

[smitbret]

Whoops, didn't mean to post this here.
-Brett

[guns1inger]

At those bitrates I would use DVD Rebuilder Pro and resize to half-D1. This is close to SVCD in resolution, so the lower bitrate isn't as damaging, and is also DVD compliant, so you don't have to split it over multiple discs.

[Krispy Kritter]

I've found that DVD2One does a much better job on discs that require a lot of compression.