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Re: How does Hollywood make a 2 hour DVD? Why can't I?
by Tom Volotta on May 8, 2005 at 2:46:36 am

The original Hollywood requirement was to fit 133 minutes on a single sided DVD-5. This included one Dolby Digital 5.1 and two 2.0 audio streams, along with three SubPicture streams for subtitles, and a handful of relatively simple Menus. This allows for an average MPEG-2 video bitrate of 4.5 Mbps, which will yield very good quality.

In general, MPEG-2 encoders would prefer to see a 4:2:2 input source rather than 4:1:1.

There are a wide range of inexpensive software and hardware encoders that can do the job quite well.

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How does Hollywood make a 2 hour DVD? Why can't I? by Larry Watts on Apr 29, 2005 at 5:05:56 pm
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