HD and Normal DVD player

[Stiganator]

If I were to create a short film 2-3 minutes long and render it at 1920x1080 will is scale right on a SD TV DVD player?

 

[kylebisme]

Videos of resolutions higher than 720x480 interlaced won't even play on a standard DVD player, let alone scale right. you'd have to take care of the scaleing and interlacing prior to putting your video on DVD.

 

[Stiganator]

Ok Maybe I should start from he basics. What resolution and codecs should I use if I want to be able to play this short film on A) Standard DVD player, B) Progressive DVD player, C) High Def (computer I guess?)

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Ok Maybe I should start from he basics. What resolution and codecs should I use if I want to be able to play this short film on A) Standard DVD player, B) Progressive DVD player

MPEG2, 720x480 30FPS. That's pretty much your only choice for DVD.

C) High Def (computer I guess?)

On a PC, whatever you want. MPEG2 is broadly compatible, but the files are big. MPEG4 (ie, DIVX) is fairly popular and compresses better. There's also WMV9 (H.201 codec? I think? Haven't used it to encode anything myself.)

 

[kylebisme]

Standard DVD players read 480 line interlaced MPEG-2 files with a maximum horizontal resolution of 720 pixels, and progressive scan DVD players simply reconstruct the progressive frames from the interlaced fields on such standard DVDs. However, if you want higher quality results on a computer, you should start with whatever codecs or resolutions suit your needs, and then you'll need to use DVD authoring software produce and SD version of the video playback on DVD players.

 

[Stiganator]

So say I was going to make a DVD with High Def and regular. I would make a Audio_TS and Video_TS folder and that would contain the proper video I made using 720x480 MPEG2 which I'm guessing would be converted to .vobs by DVD authoring software like DVD Studio Pro. SD DVD can play from that meaning interlaced, additionally if it is progressive scan DVD player it will create the 720p from the 720i on the fly in the DVD player. Then I'll have an additional folder to hold the HD version, maybe use the H.264, I noticed I couldn't play 1920x1080 uncompressed (1300mbit/sec). Do you think H.264 is a good codec for HD.

Did I get that all right?

 

[kylebisme]

Kinda, .vob files are actually just containers which hold the MPEG-2 files, and a progressive scan DVD player create the 480p from the 480i. 720p is 1280x720 isn't supported by normal DVD players, and there is no such thing as 720i.

 

[Stiganator]

720p and 1080p are a HD TV thing only right now? Well and I guess Bluray and HDDVD. DVD is only 480i,p. Hmm. Why does DVD look better than TV if it is practically the same resolution.

 

[kylebisme]

They are the same resolution, but video from a DVD player generally doesn't suffer the signal loss that generally happens with the broadcast over analog cable or over the air, or the extra compression often used in digital broadcasts. Also, windscreen stuff on standard TV is matted 4:3, while modern DVDs generally devote more pixels to the picture by using anamorphic widescreen.

 

[Stiganator]

I was thinking, so 720x480 is not at 4:3 or a 16:9 its 3:2. How does that work. Does it get letterboxed or does it get cut off or does it get scrunched?