Originally posted by: MaximRecoil
One more thing; MPEG-4 would be saturated for a 2 hour movie at something under 3 GB; probably around 2.5 GB, so a 4.3 GB MPEG-4 file (XviD/DivX/WMV/MOV/ect) for Star Wars is not likely even if you tried nor would it be of any benefit if you succeeded.
One more thing; MPEG-4 would be saturated for a 2 hour movie at something under 3 GB; probably around 2.5 GB, so a 4.3 GB MPEG-4 file (XviD/DivX/WMV/MOV/ect) for Star Wars is not likely even if you tried nor would it be of any benefit if you succeeded.
About that, I did a quick test converting captured LD footage in DV format to XviD format, the only thing I did to the LD footage was undo the 3:2 pulldown, the XviD was encoded at 100% image quality with each frame being a keyframe, had I gone ahead and encoded a 2 hour capture the avi would be an estimated 9-10gb in size, so it's perfectly possible to have a 2 hour 4.3gb XviD avi by having 1/2 or 1/3 the number of keyframes.
The main reason I started this topic is because whilst waiting for my PAL LDs to arrive I'm still trying to work out what format(s) I eventually end up putting my set onto, anamorphic PAL is a very high consideration for playing on my 28" widescreen tv and giving a copy to my friend who has a 42" plasma, both setups have the same DVD player and are multiregion so NTSC playback is not a problem except PAL has a smoother playback. But there's also my PC powered projector (5 foot wide image) so I'm toying with the idea of producing a 1024 width XviD for playing back on that.