[4candles]

Originally Posted by New Homebrew

It is kind of an anomaly, but I hope everyone is converting their stuff at full DV resolution anyway. One difference I can think of is that SVCD bitrate is very low, around 1000kb/s, and the audio more compressed and even lower bitrate than ac3 minimum.

SVCDs are VBR, and can be up to around 2.6Mbit/s. VCDs are CBR at 1150Kbit/s.

Some of the poort quality commercial digital TV channels in Europe (e.g. the MTV network) broadcast channels which are very similar to SVCD specs - about 2.5Mbit/s and 544x576 resolution with 192kbps MP2 audio.

However, I agree with the "DVD only" rule on TTD - it's not a perfect rule, but it's a good generalisation. But if you're looking for "DVD-quality" footage, then don't dismiss any SVCDs you see - they could be just as good, if not better than some DVD sources.

The audio is obviously an exception - only DVDs can hold uncompressed PCM.

But poor quality audio is also possible on DVDs - either from a poor source or from encoding to (e.g.) 128kbps AC-3 or MP2.

Dave.