A question re bitrate

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richmondfloyd

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Hi,

I have been trying to burn some VHS to DVD for a while. So many problems using the Elgato software, wish I had invested in a player. But the reason I didn't is I thought they couldn't burn dual layer disks as told by both curry's and hughes! - but they can!! The latest try at using the elgato made the DVD out of sync!

Anyway, have now employed someone to do it, but there recorder only burns to single layer.

My question is for 3 1/2 hours the bit rate is 4mbps. The quality is understandably not great. How better would the quality be if I quickly invest in a dual layer DVD burner?
 
4Mbps is incredibly low for SD MPEG2; for something like a menu, or a scene that barely moves, it might be "acceptable", but despite VHS's terrible perceived resolution, it ironically is very bitrate heavy due to the noise and signal interference of the original video. Most DVDs hover in the 6-8Mbit range, depending on the shot, so you can see how this would affect the quality...

I can't really say that it will look "x amount better", but it will undoubtedly look better to some degree if you give it a more appropriate bitrate.
 
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