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  • Guidelines for how much video can fit on a CD-Rom

    Posted by Jack Pitzer on January 18, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    Greetings, I’m looking for some general guidelines as to how much video can fit on a CD ROM.
    Does anybody have a general listing of what can fit in various formats, such as Flash video, WMV and QT?
    Thanks much in advance.
    Jack

    Charles Simonson replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Charles Simonson

    January 18, 2006 at 6:59 pm

    The amount you can fit on a CD really depends on what you want from an output perspective. You could fit over 4 hours of low-res low-bit rate encoded video or only 40 minutes of full-res high-bit rate video for SD. The amount of time you can encode for a CD is totally dependent upon the bit rate you choose. But overall, these days with the best WMV9, H.264, and FLV8 encoders, you can fit quite a lot at very high quality and at a nice sized resolution.

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