LB
12th October 2002, 00:41
I've been wondering this for awhile and did a few tests and now am at the conclusion that SVCD is pointless. I love the quality of them, so I figured why not just just make minidvds instead? Basically, its identical to the SVCD creation process except for that you have to encode at 720x480 or a dvd compatible resolution (not 480x480), use 48khz sound, and mux it differently... But, using the same bitrate for a SVCD (~2100) and the same bitrate for the audio (224) you can create a dvd compliant movie that is the same size as a SVCD with almost identical quality. Benefit? Well, when you eventually buy a DVD-R you can just copy over all your minitDVDs to it.
Again, this is assuming you don't mind the quality loss between a SVCD (minidvd in this case) and an actual dvd. I would much rather have 5 movies on 1 dvd with slight quality loss than 1 movie on 1 dvd.
So, what do you guys think? Why not miniDVD instead of SVCD? I see no benefit except a loss of compatibility on the SVCD->DVD conversion compared to a minidvd.
Oh yea, 1 more question. Compatibility? Wouldn't ANY DVD player on the market play these too? So there wouldn't be a reason to buy a special apex player?
**EDIT: This is also assuming you are content with 224 svcd quality audio.
Again, this is assuming you don't mind the quality loss between a SVCD (minidvd in this case) and an actual dvd. I would much rather have 5 movies on 1 dvd with slight quality loss than 1 movie on 1 dvd.
So, what do you guys think? Why not miniDVD instead of SVCD? I see no benefit except a loss of compatibility on the SVCD->DVD conversion compared to a minidvd.
Oh yea, 1 more question. Compatibility? Wouldn't ANY DVD player on the market play these too? So there wouldn't be a reason to buy a special apex player?
**EDIT: This is also assuming you are content with 224 svcd quality audio.