On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:00:42PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:<snip>
I have a 3 hour long VHS I need to convert / encode to a digital mediaYou want to fit a 3 hours long VHS to 1 CD, that means a good (or should I say OVERKILL) compression. A 3 hour Video will not look so good under 650-700MB video (specially if you have lots of motion)..
format that can fit on a CD (so it can be distributed).
Considering that the input is VHS, 700Mb should suffices.
Where this information comes from ?
I would submit that compressing even VHS to under 700MB will be of such a lousy quality that will make watching the Video unbearable to anyone who's ever seen a DVD.
As a rule of thumb, you can store an hour and a half (that is a full length feature film) on a VCD (MPeG1) w/o too heavy degredation of quality, and about 45 min (half a full length feature film) to get a quality comparable to a good TV signal.
SVCD (MPEG2) will give better quality, so a full length feature film on a CD becomes a possibility, but not many hardware players support this standard.
3 hour of TV signal quality video under 700MB only becomes feasable using a very good MPEG4 encoder, and then it would only be playable on a modern PC with a good software set - no hardware player currently available on the consumer market can play MPEG4.
-- Oded
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