Mpeg2 vs. Mpeg1

rbrown3rd wrote on 3/19/2003, 9:22 AM
I have burned a number of XSVCDs (Mpeg2) and XVCDs (Mpeg1). Playing them on my DVD player, APEX600, I can't really see any difference. I know that the Mpeg1 format is more common and compatible with stand alone DVD players.

I am thinking that even though I am burning these non compliant format VCDs I should probably be doing it in Mpeg2 to enable migration to DVDs should I ever decide to do that.

Why am I making VCDs intead of DVDs? No DVD burner for one reason and the second is the cost of blanks is much cheaper.

I guess I am asking if my logic for going with the Mpeg2 format makes sense to enable migration to DVDs when I get a burner.

Comments

Former user wrote on 3/19/2003, 9:25 AM
An XSVCD and such are a lot lower bitrate than a DVD. So, although you can migrate them to DVD, you can get a better looking DVD by re-encoding the original footage.

IMHO

Dave T2
rbrown3rd wrote on 3/19/2003, 12:44 PM
Thanks. That is what I needed to know. I am going to have to get a DVD burner and do it right the first time.
barbnewbie wrote on 3/19/2003, 2:38 PM
"I am going to have to get a DVD burner and do it right the first time."

I went throught the same process. I started out doing VCD's. Then I thought: this is taking a lot of time to capture, edit, render, etc; why am I doing all this work when I know I am always going to wish that I had created a DVD instead of a VCD. So, I stopped everything . . . got a DVD burner . . . started all over and started doing DVDs. I am VERY happy I did.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/19/2003, 9:04 PM
I started making VCD’s 2 years ago before DVD burners were available or affordable. What I did was print my final project back to DV tape so that when I got a DVD burner I could just recapture the already edited footage and burn a DVD from it. I spent 100’s of hours tweaking MPEG files and never made a VCD or SVCD that didn’t have some compression artifacts. I got my DVD burner 7 months ago and still haven’t gotten around to re-burning those DV tapes to DVD. So if you can afford it, just buy a DVD burner and do it right the first time. If you can’t afford it, write your masters back to DV tape because you’re going to want to take advantage of full DVD quality once you do get a burner.

~jr