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In article ,
Click wrote:
Both SVCD & DVD use an MPEG2 codec, the first with a bit rate about 1/3 of
the latter. Are these 2 formats really just at either end of a continuum?
Would this mean that you could encode a video using the SVCD setting yet be
able to put 3 1/2 hours on a 4.7GB DVD disk?

You can't copy video directly from an SVCD to a DVD...SVCD video is 480x480,
which is incompatible with DVD. (DVD expects to see 720x480 or 352x480).

You can crank the bitrate on a DVD encode back to SVCD levels to fit more
onto it...you'll sacrifice some quality, but I have some DVDs with a dozen
episodes each of Good Eats on them that look OK. They're encoded at 352x480
and 2200 kbps, with AC3 audio at 128 kbps. Four hours is about as much as
I'd want to fit onto a DVD.

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