OT: CD vs. DVD

Lili wrote on 2/9/2006, 11:26 AM

I usually render a video in MPEG2 and burn a DVD with DVD Architect. Can I also render in (which format) and make a cd with DVDA or some other cd burning program?

Each video is almost an hour long, and I didn't think that much video would fit onto a cd.

A very quick, simple answer is all I need. .Thanks a lot.

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/9/2006, 11:46 AM

The quick answer is yes but why bother? You could use another program to create a VideoCD (VCD) or Super VideoCD (SVCD) but they will pale in comparison to DVD quality. VCD uses MPEG1 files which are extremely low quality compared to a DVD. SVCD uses MPEG2 files and is a little better quality but the bitrate is still too low and it doesn’t compare to DVD MPEG2 quality. I would just stick with making DVD’s.

All this assumes you are playing these back on a set-top DVD player. If, however, you want to burn some videos to CD for playing on your PC, then you could render to WMV, DivX, or other MPEG4 codec and get some nice quality. Some newer DVD players will even play this files too.

~jr

Former user wrote on 2/9/2006, 11:56 AM

And an SVCD will only hold about 30 minutes of video.

VCD will do about 70 minutes.

Dave T2