DVD writing?

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>:

> Compressed DVD on a CD? eeeeewwwwwwwwwewewwwwwwww!

I think someone said it's quality was equivalent to a copy of a VHS tape, but I 
havn't seen it myself.  I know someone who was transferring DVR recording to 
this format and was getting pretty good quality.

DVD doesn't by any means use the best available compression these days - I 
believe it's something like MPEG1 or 2; while MPEG4 is available, and there are 
other compression schemes.

Someone pointed out that dedicated hardware decompression works a lot better 
than software decompression for these formats.  Even fast PC's aren't really 
great at video processing.

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