Thread: blue ray
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Old 09-03-2008   #18 (permalink)
cybmole
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Re: blue ray

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Originally Posted by charging_rhinos View Post
Sure you can!
The VAST majority of Blu-Ray discs are encoded in the old, crappy MPEG-2 format. The same MPEG-2 format as DVDs. Yep. Blu-Ray is still encoded at the same bit-rate and by the same codecs as DVDs, with very rare exception.
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You are SEVERELY limited by the smaller size of the DVD (even DVD-DLs are less than half the size), meaning that you can't fit the average length movie on one. Gotta chop it.

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those statements are contradictory - if the main movie is at DVD standard bit rate etc, then why is it twice the size of a DL blank - please explain
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