<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>DeVeDe, a video DVD creator</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#E8E8F0"> <p><div style="text-align: center;"><h1>DeVeDe, a video DVD creator</h1></div></p> <p><a href="index.html">Up: help index</a></p> <p><a href="main.html">Next: the main window</a></p> <h2>The selection window</h2> <p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="choose.jpg" /></div></p> <p>When you launch DeVeDe, it will show you this window, asking what kind of disk you want to create. You can choose between:</p> <p> <ul> <li>Video DVD: a classic video DVD, like the ones you rent in your videoclub or buy in your video shop.</li> <li>VideoCD: a CD with CBR MPEG-1 video at a resolution of 352x240 pixels (352x288 with PAL), a fixed bitrate of 1152 kbits/second for video and 224 kbits/second for audio. The quality is comparable to analog VHS, and a CD can contain as much compressed audio/video than uncompressed audio (this is, a 80-minutes CD can contain about 80 minutes of compressed video/audio). Is compatible with all DVD players, but video quality is medium-bad.</li> <li>Super VideoCD: a CD with VBR MPEG-2 video at a resolution of 480x480 pixels (480x576 with PAL) and video bitrates between 500 and 2600 kbits/second. The quality is comparable to LaserDisc, and a 80-minutes CD can contain about 60 minutes con compressed video/audio (more if you reduce the bitrate, but with less quality). Is compatible with a lot of DVD players, but maybe there is one very cheap which doesn't support it. Video quality is good.</li> <li>CVD (China Video Disk): identical to Super VideoCD, but with a resolution of 352x480 pixels (352x576 with PAL). Offers less artifacts with same bitrate, but image is a bit less sharper than Super VideoCD. Is compatible with a lot of DVD players, but maybe there is one very cheap which doesn't support it.</li> <li>DIVX/MPEG4: creates one-pass DIVX files, ready to be played in DIVX-compliant players.</li> </ul> </p> <p>Of course you aren't limited to theses options, since you can choose, if you want, another resolution for your CD/DVD. This allows you to create Super VideoCDs with a resolution of 352x240 (or 352x288 for PAL), which is a very good compromise if you want to store a lot of video in a single CD. I don't recomend to use other resolutions with VideoCDs, because CBR MPEG-1 is very limited. Choose the Super VideoCD or CVD option (which uses VBR MPEG-2) and use there the resolution you want.</p> <p><a href="index.html">Up: help index</a></p> <p><a href="main.html">Next: the main window</a></p> </body> </html>
