DVD Compliant Option in CCE

[kevhed007]

I'm confused as to what it does....unless I'm misunderstanding the manual...it creates a 720 x 480 stream which is great for me cuz my dvd player plays that size very well. However, it seems to do nothing. Wanted to know if I was missing something or if I had to do this long way...frameserving with resize filter in VirtualDub. Any input would be great

[RoopeT]

I think this option is there for only to make sure the bitrate doesn't go over 9.7 Mbps (The DVD maximum bitrate, if I remember correctly).

[RoopeT]

CCE doesn't resize, you have to frameserve from VirtualDub / TMPGEnc / Avisynth. VirtualDub frameserving is the worst option of these, as it doesn't allow you to do multipass encoding (which is really THE REASON to use CCE).

[offline]

CCE doesn't resize

Oh but it does.

It can do 720x576(480) to 720x288(240) or 352x576(480)

If you choose DVD compliant, it will write the frame size as
720x576(480) @ a bitrate you choose (default 6000)

[Truman]

Half horizontal resolution and half vertical resolution are the only built in resize filters. DVD compliant does not mean, that CCE will resize to a DVD compliant resolution.
VirtualDub frameserving to ccesp allows multipass encoding as well as one pass encoding.
Since ccesp is able to decode YUV source files, I recommend to frameserve with Avisynth, that is less complicated anyway.

[mole]

Heres my 2 cents on this
I've been trying to do encodes at 1/2 DV (352x480) with CCE and when my encodes were done, i would get a CENTERED image with black borders on the left and right - with OR without the half resolution options checked - when i play it in a DVD player, it WILL NOT fill the screen.
When I uncheck the DVD compliant option, it removes the aforementioned problem. So I think the DVD Compliant option is to "fill the frame" if you will. That way you can take an odd sized resolution, and it will make borders around it and make it DVD resolution. Not actually "resizing", but "bordering".

[SLK001]

When I frameserve a 704x480 MPEG2 video into CCE (without any resize filtering at all) with DVD Compliant Video checked, I get a 720x480 MPEG2 output file. I was assuming that CCE was resizing my file to the nearest DVD Compliant resolution - which it did.

[erzug]

Funny, but I thought the "DVD Compliant" checkbox meant that it kept the maximum number of GOP's per frame to the NTSC or PAL DVD standard (15 or 18).

[denoneil]

I Don't use CCE, but I suspect that the GOP (Group Of Pictures) answer is the correct one. The term "DVD Compliant" seems to mean the same thing in many other encoders.

[Truman]

Isn't 15 frames per GOP the max GOP length, that you can select in ccesp anyway?
Also I recommend to read the ccesp manual. "dvd compliant" means bitrate limitation and a compliant frame size (but no resizing) if a compliant framerate was detected.