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DVD vs VideoCD

DVD vs VideoCD

Submitted by Peter on Sun Mar 12 2006 17:35 over 2 years ago

Tried blowing a DVD with my new DVD Writer. Up till now my plan was to use the neglected VideoCD format but now I have the DVD Writer there is no need to compromise. The difference in the playbacks is quite noticeable, while VideoCD is VHS Tape quality, DVD is, well, DVD quality. Quite amazing to me that about £350 of cheap kit (excluding the computer, which I had anyway) can give results that would have been broadcast quality 20 years ago.

Used Pinnacle Studio 8 to create the DVD. The image it created for about an hour of video was about 3.9G, using up most of a disk that is supposed to support two hours. This was probably due to the compression settings I chose which were the defaults. It took a few hours to do the job, I left it running all night so it's not good for the electricity bill.

Filed under: pinnacle video

Anonymous Says:

Fri Mar 17 2006 13:53 over 2 years ago

350?

Peter Says:

Thu Apr 20 2006 09:12 over 2 years ago

Camera = £300

Firewire adapter + pinnacle studio = £20

DVD writer = £30

Being able to justify myself = priceless

Peter

tom Says:

Wed Apr 26 2006 03:13 over 2 years ago

You can Copy DVD movie into several video types, including VCD(MPEG-1 format), SVCD (MPEG-2 format), DivX AVI and other AVI (compressed by the selected codec, DivX codec perfered) download free at yaodownload.com

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