I have a many BRRipped movies that are in MPEG4 H.264 AVC format with 720p resolution. Can I play these movies (burnt on A DVD) on a Sony WEGA Trinitron 29'' TV set (model KV AR29M81A)? Does it support this resolution? Nevertheless, my DVD player supports this video format. Any ideas... ?
The TV is SD? Will the DVD player convert the disk to an SD signal? If it does this, you may be in business - otherwise probably not. Burn one and try it. If you don't want to waste a disk, invest in some DVD RW.
Hmmm... Yeah, SD... I will definitely try burning one. Anyway, whats the most suitable resolution for my TV (I think it might be 720x480), so that I re-encode these videos?
Depends on where you are. Generally, if you're in NTSC-land (The USA and others) use 720*480, if you're in PAL-land (U.K., Australia, etc,etc) 720*576. Give AVStoDVD a try, if you're looking for an all in one DVD creation tool. http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AVStoDVD
If your player supports MPEG4 H.264,even if you have to re-encode to a lower resolution, then I would use same codec instead of converting to DVD Video, better quality in a smaller size file...
doubt the player will support that codec fully.. might say it does but the only way to be really sure is to try it.. way too new.. and too proprietary.. not industry standard because of too much "hidden" M$ junk buried in it... Player manufacturers will probably implement x264 if they bother at all... which honestly I doubt very much except on portable devices.
Ok, I decided to re-encode these Brrips to XVID but I'm facing severe problems. Sometimes I get an extremely large file (but the quality is good) and sometimes I get a file size of reasonable size but very poor quality... I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I heard that XVID is an excellent compressing format. I'm using Prism Video Converter. Can you guys please tell me about the correct Encoding settings for converting a 2.02GB x264 1280x544 BRRIP to about 1.44GB(or so) XVID 720x480 format file with little or no loss of quality...? P.S. I'm converting a 2hr. 14min. movie...
Try something like Virtualdub or Avidemux. Don't choose 720*480 blindly, it's common practice to encode these avi files to a resolution that actually matches the movies aspect ratio. For example, if the movie is 2.35:1, encode it at something similar to 720*312, etc,etc. Choose an encoding mode (usually 2-pass) where you set the bit rate specifically. Only then will you be able to predict the file size. Keep in mind that to watch them on your TV via your dvd player, your player has to be able play these mpeg-4 (xvid or divx) files. Not all of the players can do so. If your player doesn't accept these files, re-encode your movies to DVD compliant mpeg-2, and author a DVD - as was kind of implied earlier. The main difference between the two, is that with the dvd mpeg-2, you'll only get 1 (or 2 at the most) movies per disk, while xvid/divx you can put 6 700MB movies on.
