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Is it possible to unshrink a mpeg 2 movie to DVD and improve the picture quality?

deano59 (Competent) posted this on Friday, 28th October 2005, 17:43

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?

KaTz (Elite) posted this on Friday, 28th October 2005, 17:56

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?

Jemson (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 28th October 2005, 18:27

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?

MADTheOgster (Elite Donator) posted this on Friday, 28th October 2005, 19:05

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?

KaTz (Elite) posted this on Friday, 28th October 2005, 20:47

no worries ogster
suprised i got there before u tho! :p

KaTz

www.myspace.com/kattri

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