Posted by Veggie Dave on 09/10/06 14:24

John Howells <john@howells-99.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>At 8Mb/s the maximum recording time on a standard single layer DVD is about
>75 minutes. For 2 hours the bit rate needs to be about 5Mb/s.

Absolutely. Of course, there's always the option of two-pass encoding,
which will bring the final size down a little.

Anyone really interested in this should do a search for a bitrate
calculator. Excellent, simple HTML-based bitrate to file size
calculator.

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Veggie Dave
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