How much video fits on a CDROM/DVD-ROM?
Around 120 video clips, comprising about one hour of video in total. The total depends on frame size of the video and how it’s compressed. Video on our CDROMs has a frame size of 352 x 280 pixels. We use MPEG-1 compression, the most common video standard. MPEG-1 is an open-standard technology and freely available. MPEG players are included with Windows and Macintosh operating systems. A DVD-ROM has around four times the capacity of a CDROM, and the newer standards of DVD-ROM will be bigger again. page top …