Can only fit a 350 MB movie on a 4.7GB dvd-r

BargainGalore

700mb isnt good quality for a movie either you will get around 700kbps, a decent bit rate will be well above 1000kbps

DatabaseError

700mb is good enough for most movies to be played on a standard def TV, though artifacting is likely in solid colour areas (primarily very dark or bright scenes). the quality of the re-encoding has a lot to do with it, I use convertx2dvd for its speed (200+fps), convenience and pretty good quality, though the results were better when I did it properly (strip the audio track, encode video and audio in seperate apps, then mux, create file structure and burn, maybe 4-6 hours/film vs the 10 minutes for convertx)

BargainGalore

True but its still not good quality and it also depends on the encoder used, the film to some extent as you mentioned below and the screen, the bigger the more artefacts will show up

H.264 is more efficient than Divx/XviD but it needs more processing to decode it hence why many standalone players can encode it although I hear that is to be changed soon.

Phones and many cameras tend to encode h.264 for video as you can get much more in a given file size although much of it especially on phones is only useful at that resolution

DatabaseError wrote: »

700mb is good enough for most movies to be played on a standard def TV, though artifacting is likely in solid colour areas (primarily very dark or bright scenes). the quality of the re-encoding has a lot to do with it, I use convertx2dvd for its speed (200+fps), convenience and pretty good quality, though the results were better when I did it properly (strip the audio track, encode video and audio in seperate apps, then mux, create file structure and burn, maybe 4-6 hours/film vs the 10 minutes for convertx)