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Originally posted by joemailey
yea it does do 4hrs of video easy lol
Yes it may do it easily but the quality will be shit house. I've done many compressions with DVDs and if you try to fit 4 hours of video onto a single layer DVD the quality will be terrible.
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Originally posted by joemailey
remember you probably using normal mode for compression on that tv ep.
I tried it with the highest setting.
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Originally posted by joemailey
TV eps don't decrease in quality much. hence why you can fit alot on to dvd with out any problems.
Yes they do. First of all, if you're talking about the ones you download then first they are captured, they stand at around 4gb, 25mbit bitrate, compressed down to 350mb, 1014kbps bitrate. Now that's a huge difference!
Then you want to put them onto a single layer DVD, 7 episodes you said. You load them up into the program and convert, they are being encoded to a different format which will have some quality loss. Now because they are too big to fit on a single layer DVD, they are compressed again. From the 'original' 1014kbps I had on my video, it will go down to make room for the other six episodes. More quality loss.
I watched one episode I converted with this program and while the quality was watchable some parts made me cringe. Some 'red' scenes bleeded causing big, square blocks of pixels to appear more so than the 'original'.
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Originally posted by joemailey
Edit: why temp its TV shows? you can't get any better unless you buy the dvd.
or download HD eps.
These are HD eps. I buy my TV eps because I want a good case, box, extras and the quality to be a lot better. Not done by some second rate encoder. I would only use this program if I want to watch something that night on my DVD player. Then I would put it on a RW so I can erase the next day.
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Originally posted by joemailey
Most people aren't bothered to much by quality as long as it is respectable its generally good. i have HD TV so standard stuff doesn't look as good on it anyway 
I am bothered by crappy quality. So far from what I've seen the encoder can be improved on immensly.
All in all, if you're happy with the conversion then good for you. I personally would only use it for temp jobs.
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