I have been trying to convert VHS tapes to VCD. The VHS tapes have a lot of fast motion in them (sporting events). I capture the tape using Virtual Dub 352x480 huffyuv compression. I apply the vertical resize filter 1:2 linear. I use Tempenc to encode to MPEG1 at 352x240 @4Mb/s. The file looks great on my Sony DVD Player. If I run the MPEG file through Bitrate Viewer I get a Q factor of around 1.92, which is very good. The problem is I can only fit around 20 minutes of video on a CD. Well, that’s fine I’ll buy a DVD burner and I can fits lots of Video. I think there’s a catch. What is the DVD bitrate Standard for MPEG1 VCD is it 1.15Mb/s? Can I use 4Mb/s encodes and burn them with DVD writer and still have them play on my Set top DVD Player? Should I encode my VHS tapes to MPEG2 format? I captured video from VHS with Virtual Dub at 352x480 and encoded with Tempenc. First I encoded the AVI file to MPEG1 352x240 @4Mb/s the file a Q factor of 1.99. I take the same Vdub AVI file and encode to MPEG2 352x480 @4Mb/s. The MPEG2 file doesn’t look as good. The Q factor is around a 5.12. I didn’t expect that much difference in the Quality. Should I encode the MPEG 2 at 6 or 8 Mb/s, because of the extra bandwidth required by 352x480? I am happy with the quality of the MPEG1 encodes and would like to use them for a DVD. But I’m note sure the DVD format will support MPEG1 @4Mb/s.