Video Standards
There are several standards to release movies, TV show episodes and other video material to the scene. VCD releases use the less efficient MPEG-1 format, are low quality, but can be played back on most standalone DVD players. SVCD releases use MPEG-2 encoding, have half the video resolution of DVDs and can also be played back on most DVD players. DVD-R releases use the same format as retail DVD-Videos, and are therefore larger in size. Finally DivX, Xvid and recently H.264/MPEG-4 AVC releases use the much more efficient MPEG-4 standards. However, generally only middle to top-end DVD players can play back DivX or Xvid files, with hardly any able to handle H.264 files so far.
- For more details on this topic, see Pirated movie release types.
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