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Fryer
27th March 2006, 19:55
Hi, does any one knows how to encode a hd wmv with the same resolution (1280*720) to an svcd file?
MrTroy
27th March 2006, 20:30
You can't. SVCD is limited to 480x576.
Fryer
27th March 2006, 20:59
Okey, how about dvdr?
MrTroy
27th March 2006, 22:45
There's a reason it's called HD: it can't be burned in full resolution to the current media. DVD is limited to 720x576.

You can either
- wait for HD DVD / Blu-Ray players
or
- get yourself a DivX HD player and burn to DivX HD (a full 1280x720 fits on 1 DVD in that format)
siddharthagandhi
27th March 2006, 23:13
You can go to microsoft.com and get the WMV HD DVD authoring guide. It tells you exactly how to author your own WMV HD DVDs.
communist
28th March 2006, 22:26
You can go to microsoft.com and get the WMV HD DVD authoring guide. It tells you exactly how to author your own WMV HD DVDs.
Huh? What would be the point if the source is already WMV... and it still would only play on PC?!

Unless you have one of those HD players (are they already availabale?) that can play DivX / WMV / MPEG2 in HD resolutions, but for those you would just need to burn the file to a DVDR.
And I'm not talking about "HD DVD" or "Blu-ray".
siddharthagandhi
28th March 2006, 23:37
They're going to be avaialable soon. I'm just saying that for the heck of it. Because many people here are going to get one, so if they burn it to HD DVD and all that before the player comes out in preparation for the player they can start their HD dVd collection.
communist
29th March 2006, 00:57
I give up... its almost pointless to point out that these are merely DVD ROM with WMV (which happen to be in HD) on them. This is far from "authoring".
As for players if we are talking about current gen that can play HD content - they will play these files without the 'Microsoft authoring'. Why reencode or 'author' it (whatever this means in this case) if the file will play just fine?!

For next-gen ("HD DVD" & "Blu-ray") there arent even players / burners let alone authoring programs (publically) available so how exactly do you think people are going to burn HD DVDs without access to HD DVD writers...?

You've fallen prey of Microsoft's spin on HD.. WMV HD DVD... read it as "HD material encoded to WMV and put on plain DVDs" whereas "HD DVD" is a new media type (like "Blu-ray").