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Activity Forums Compression Techniques 376 minutes in a DVD?

  • Daniel Low

    September 4, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Not that I know of.

  • Gregorio Pellegrino

    September 8, 2009 at 11:20 am

    What bitrate calculator do you suggest to me?

    Greg

  • Eric Olson

    September 16, 2009 at 1:14 am

    There are two free encoders that can create compliant mpeg2 dvd streams

    https://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/

    https://ffmpeg.org/

    Both will allow really low bitrates. At really low bitrates rescaling to 352×480 half-D1 frames can reduce compression artifacts and increase quality.

  • Andrius Simutis

    September 17, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    You can do this.
    If you use a DL DVD+R, your bitrate will be 2.7 for the video only, assuming you use a Dolby AC3 stereo track for audio.
    This will look pretty bad in Compressor because it has a max of 2 passes. Using something that will do more passes will give you more opportunity to save some quality. I’d suggest Cinemacraft’s CCE-MP encoder which works as a plug in to Compressor. It’s $800 and does a good job, but I’ve never gone as low as 2.7 with it. 3.5 looked pretty good and that was fast action stuff with a lot of detail whipping by with camera pans and quick edits.
    Keep in mind too that some DVD players may have trouble playing back a burned DVD-9, so your other option is to make this a set of DVDs and split the program over two or more discs.

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