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What is the difference between DVD (MPEG2) and CD-Rom (MPEG1)?

April 26, 2017CD-ROM DVD mpeg1 MPEG2

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What is the difference between DVD (MPEG2) and CD-Rom (MPEG1)?

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The main difference is the amount of information each can hold, and the resulting difference in picture quality. A CD holds up to 700mb while current DVD storage is 4.7Gb (over 6.5 times more!). Encoding your video to DVD means you can have up to 100 minutes of Mpeg2 quality video, at about twice the resolution of CD quality Mpeg1. DVD is best suited for playback on television and maintaining as much picture quality as possible, though encoding to CD is great for inserting video into Powerpoint presentations, web sites, interactive CD-Roms and playback as VCD.