Bit-rate limitations of mini-DVD?

[evilclive]

I have taken a set of digital photos from a recent holiday and used DVD-lab Pro 2.5 to create a slide-show of them, accompanied by recordings of my own piano playing.

As the resulting VOB file was just 120MB, I was strongly tempted to burn it to CDR, rather than DVD+R. However, the resulting mini-DVD skips quite a few slides with the cheaper of my set-top DVD players.

It plays perfectly in a computer (with 48-speed CDR read access), and I concluded that the mini-DVD's bit-rate either peaked too high or was too variable for the cheap DVD player to cope. After all, there's no formal specification for the mini-DVD format.

I'm wondering what alternatives are there to simply burning to DVD+R instead?

[um3k]

Well, you could burn to a DVD-R.


(sorry, couldn't resist)

[setarip_old]

@evilclive

Hi!I'm wondering what alternatives are there to simply burning to DVD+R instead?In light of the fact that burnable DVD media is typically as inexpensive, or even less costly than burnable CD media, I'd just use burnable DVD media...

[mitsubishi]

AFAIK most DVDs players will go to a maximum 2x, which would be about 2.4 Mb/s, although the VCD specs only allow 1x (and the SVCD 2x), but they get a slightly higher data rate by burning data in a denser mode. Have you tried a plain mpeg file, might make a tiny difference.

Although Setarip's right, DVDs are cheap as chips, how much are CDs these days? I still have half a pack I bought about 4 years ago, they only ever get used when I want to burn a radio show or something for someone who is too old-school to have bluetooth or USB in their car stereo.