To embrace HD, we can't get rid of Blu ray player, HD player or HTPC, but this is not very realistic for the vast majority of families in China.

For DVD players, its holding rate is much higher than that of the previous players, and will continue to play the leading role in home theater in the long run.

Can we tap the potential of DVD to make it closer to HD and become clearer? Of course, please join us in making your own HD DVD.

What is HD DVD?

We know that the DVD standard resolution is 720 x 576 (PAL) or 720 x 480 (NTSC), but in fact, the decoding power of the DVD decoder chip is higher than this resolution.

We can increase the resolution of DVD source to 1024 x 576, so that the resolution is 42.2% higher than that of standard DVD.

At present, the so-called 1024 - 576 resolution so-called widescreen HD DVD video on the market is actually achieved by raising the pixels of the source to make DVD clearer.

It has increased the resolution from the traditional 720 x 576 (PAL) to 1024 x 576, the width to height ratio has reached 16::9, the definition is 42.2% higher than the standard DVD, and it can achieve clearer playback effect on the flat panel TV, projection and computer display.

In addition, in order to save and distribute HD movies and HD DV, this format is undoubtedly more attractive.

Prepare source: compress MPEG-2 video files

To create a 1024 * 576 resolution DVD, we first need to get 1024 * 576 resolution MPEG-2 files. We can get the source from the DV on the Internet or by ourselves. The compression tool can use TMPGEnc 4 Xpress or ProCoder 3. They are all recognized MPEG-2 tools with excellent quality.

TMPGEnc 4 Xpress is recommended here. It can import mainstream HD formats such as TS, AVI and MKV. If the material is high-definition video, it will be more appropriate to use it.