Hi Carsten,
going to give you miserable results. Doing the same to a high resolution picture is only going to make things worse.
I disagree, Reinhard. IMHO, Grégoire's question above is perfectly valid.
Oh, I wasn't questioning the validility of Grégoire's question.
It's just that >I< wouldn't give up quality for size. But then I watch my movies on a 315 cm diagonal ;o)) and MPEG2 artifacts are already bugging me.
Assuming that the thing must fit on one DVD, it has to be reduced in size
Sure, I understand that, but then I would span it across two DVDs. At the moment, we aren't talking about hundereds of movies in HDTV quality. Europe still has a LOOOONG way to go before that becomes reality (if it ever does).
and AFAIK, MPEG4 would be the way that loses the least amount of quality when doing that.
Sure, MPEG4 is the least lossy compression, but a compression is still a compression and it simply has to compromize quality. The problem is that video, unlike a text file, cannot be compressed to any reasonable size w/o losing one way or the other.
Regards, Reinhard