Posted by Charlie+ on 01/25/06 09:05

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:34:15 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote as
underneath my scribble :

Interesting, your 'helluva lot smaller' remark -- How much smaller in
practical terms for the same quality can you achieve?
The way I test for subjective comparison is to put the DVD player on
4x zoom which highlights any quality problems instantly! I use a
hardware MPEG encoder which allows one to change the capture bitrate
for DVD from 6K to 5K or 4K etc for long stuff, and that gets me over
the length/packing quality curve quite nicely without using Shrink
often.
Keep us posted as to your final method with MPEG4 as result of your
testing! Always interested in real practical experience!!
Charlie+

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>That's exactly how I do it.
>
>Recently I have been playing with MPEG4 (AVI, DivX, etc.) because the
>quality is just as good as DVDs but a helluva lot smaller. My ILO
>DVDR05MU1 can play most and if it can't I use WinAvi or
>TotalVideoConverter to fix it. Eventually I am going to go to
>AVI/MPEG4 on a hard disk and network the player - then no more tedious
>DVD authoring or shrinking.

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