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Is it possible to unshrink a mpeg 2 movie to DVD and improve the picture quality?
Heading says it all really - any advice grealy appreciated.
Kind Regards
Dan
RE: Is it possible to unshrink a mpeg 2 movie to DVD and improve the picture quality?
mpeg is what dvd video is. its just that its at a higher bit rate and higher quality sound. not sure of the figures myself,
once a source has been compressed u can not add to it to get the extra information which would make it up to dvd quality.
so in short the answer is - No. :B
KaTz
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RE: Is it possible to unshrink a mpeg 2 movie to DVD and improve the picture quality?
DVD Video specification is MPEG2. The bitrate is the publisher`s choice, though typically it`s 9600 kbits/sec (about 1.2 mbytes a sec) for feature films. The MPEG2 specification does not specify bitrates, it`s just a standard, i.e. it defines the method of compression, not how aggressively you carry out those methods.
You do not need to uncompress it, and as alluded to earlier, you`ll gain nothing from doing so (although I suppose you could perform some post processing sharpening or whatever, but that`s gonna take a while). If you have a compliant MPEG2 stream it will be very simple in any DVD authoring software to plonk it on a DVD.
RE: Is it possible to unshrink a mpeg 2 movie to DVD and improve the picture quality?
the short & accurate answer would be no.
:)
EDIT= heh, sorry katz, i didn`t see the end of your post :) ya beat me to it ;)
general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.ukformerly known as Chris Ogden
This item was edited on Friday, 28th October 2005, 20:06
RE: Is it possible to unshrink a mpeg 2 movie to DVD and improve the picture quality?
no worries ogster
suprised i got there before u tho! :p
KaTz
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