Just looking for a little input. Of course, single-layer DVD's support about an hour of video to get full quality. How much is lost when you compress the files to get 2 hours of video on the DVD? And does this effect the ability of DVD players to play it back correctly?
A little, depends on the length of the movie in general. Not usually. Quality is in the eye of the beholder and depends on many factors.
I compress my movies all the time.I try to do the things that will lessen the amount of compression,and I rarely see any difference.I have a 65in HDTV so if its there to see, I would see it. hey bilbo65,how goes it?
Can't complain too much jim_dandy. Seems like alot of others are complaining though. One would think their world was coming to an end. Haven't been on the forums as much lately. I guess because there are so few good movies to obtain these days, I haven't been too concerned about "difficulities" of copying discs. Besides almost all the current problems are self inflicted.
I really don't want to copy commercial films. I'm copying my home movies from VHS to DVD. Most of my tapes are two hours long and I don't want two DVD's per tape. But I don't want to sacrifice video quality too much.
Yes, they're good quality. I'm capturing them through an analog hook-up.......Pinnacle's MovieBox to be exact.
you can always try a dual layered dvd so no compression can be done on the movies. (along with a dual layered burner)
are you capturing these films as AVI or MPEG? If avi, check your list of codecs for one that says uncompressed. Different codecs will give you different quality. I have found that capturing as MPEG yields better quality, unless I'm not using good enough codecs myself. There's tons out there and it's tough to weed through them all.
