KDVD vs CCE

[dvfanatic]

My goal is to have a dvd-9 shrinked onto a dvd-5, will a compression using DVD-RB and CCE ( w/o messing with the mpeg matrices) offer better quality than having it encoded into a KDVD?

[UncasMS]

- why did you post in the divx section when you're asking about dvd9 => dvd5 via rebuilder (which has a subforum of its own)?

- why do you want to deal with a modified mpeg-1/2 gop structure (kdvd) when you can achieve creating a proper and decent dvd(5)?

i personally wouldnt even think about k/m/r/godknows-dvd but use plain and simple mpeg-2 dvd format (via dvd rebuilder + procoder2)

[feedback10K]

will a compression using DVD-RB and CCE ( w/o messing with the mpeg matrices) offer better quality than having it encoded into a KDVD?

Yes, IMO.

I am in agreement with UncasMS on most of the other points.

The exception being, you will acheive very good results with the freeware HC_15 encoder by hank315 in addition to procoder2 IMO.
It has been reputed to be as good in quality output as CCE, although it is slower.

Regards,

[dvfanatic]

Thx UncasMS & feedback10K for ur response.


The reason i posted in this section is cuz i thought only ppl exprienced with divx would have experience with KDVD thus giving me an answer that can be trusted.

[UncasMS]

after all a dvd9 => 5 conversion can not be compared to a dvd9 to 1600mb conversion

do yourself a favour and create proper dvd5s using the encoder of your choice

cce is fastest, but has some problems with low-bitrate-scenes
hank315's hc_enc is an excellent encoder and can cope with cce, may be better in some low-bitrate scenes but from my experience cannot cope with procoder2 when it comes to heavy data reduction

in higher bitrate conversion they are all superb