Re: Just jumping into this

20 Apr 2005 8:20 AM

Dave Martindale

"C.J.Patten" <cjpatten@KNOWSPAMrogers.com> writes:
>NO. "DVD" cameras are gimmicks. VERY poor quality compared to miniDV. Avoid
>like the plague.

Do they encode directly to MPEG-2? I guess they'd have to in order to
write discs that are playable in a DVD player. Do they at least use a
decently high bit rate?

Dave

20 Apr 2005 4:02 PM

C.J.Patten

Yes they use MPEG-2.

NO they DON'T have a decent bit rate.

ABYSMAL quality.

The fact that you've even brought up the issue of video quality is a
guarantee you'll be disappointed with a DVD camera.

C.

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"Dave Martindale" <da***@cs.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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> "C.J.Patten" <cjpatten@KNOWSPAMrogers.com> writes:
>>NO. "DVD" cameras are gimmicks. VERY poor quality compared to miniDV.
>>Avoid
>>like the plague.
>
> Do they encode directly to MPEG-2? I guess they'd have to in order to
> write discs that are playable in a DVD player. Do they at least use a
> decently high bit rate?
>
> Dave

20 Apr 2005 4:19 PM

PTravel

"Dave Martindale" <da***@cs.ubc.ca> wrote in message
news:d453ca$egm$2@mughi.cs.ubc.ca...
> "C.J.Patten" <cjpatten@KNOWSPAMrogers.com> writes:
> >NO. "DVD" cameras are gimmicks. VERY poor quality compared to miniDV.
Avoid
> >like the plague.
>
> Do they encode directly to MPEG-2? I guess they'd have to in order to
> write discs that are playable in a DVD player. Do they at least use a
> decently high bit rate?

DVD camcorders do single-pass encoding. I don't know whether they use
constant bit rate (CBR) or variable bit rate (VBR). However, single-pass
encoding, whether CBR or VBR will not produce as high-quality a result as
2-pass VBR, which is available with most decent standalone software
transcoders.

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> Dave