Posted by Savant on August 17, 2000 at 04:26:24: In Reply to: Re: OG on CD posted by Merijn on August 17, 2000 at 03:27:24:
: I know it is possible to make video CDs. However I had a look at it and found
: that there would only fit two episodes on each CD.
: That is then in a quality only slightly less than on videotape.
: At the moment I donīt have the time and my rewriter is in for repairs.
: But otherwise I could startup a project to put it on a video CD from a first generation copy of
: the broadcast in Australia.
: But I agree converting to any other format is very time consuming.
: So please give us info.
I've already been though this already. If you want BROADCAST quality, you would have to do 1 episode per CD. Even then the quality would still not equal the original. I did my own test last year, and converted episode 1 to CD. Here was the result.
Audio: PCM 22,050hz, 16 bit stereo
Video: 352x240, 12 bits, 20863 frames, 15fps, 314KB/sec AVI compressed
Size: 437 MEG
Even at this size, you can still full screen it and sit 6 feet away and watch it like TV.
However back in late March I converted the entire series into RealPlayer files. Using the G2 compression I was able to get 9 episodes per CD, with the entire series on 9 CDs. The encoding was the same for screen size, 352x240, but with 30fps & overall data rate of 350Kbps. Each file is about 60MEG.
I found the difference in quality between the RealPlayer version and the CD version negligible, which was why I never bothered with a CD version.
If the price of DVD recorders and blank DVDs comes down, I might consider putting the series on DVD. However the price is cost prohibitive at present.
Regards,
Savant