Digital Video

DVD SVCD VCD DivX
Resolution (PAL) 720 × 576 480 × 576 352 × 288 640 × 480
Video Compression MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-1 MPEG-4
Audio Compression MPEG-2 / AC3 MPEG-1 MPEG-1 MP3 / WMA
Average Length / min - 15 Mb/min 10 Mb/min 5 Mb/min
Desktop DVD Yes Most Almost all Most recent (*)
Quality (1 to 5) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group

  • Moving Picture Experts Group
    MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    • MPEG-1: Initial MPEG video and audio compression standard, used for Video CD (VCD); includes the popular MEPG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) audio compression format.
    • MPEG-2: Standard for generic video (moving pictures) and associated audio coding, for broadcast-quality television. Used for digital television difusion/distribution, Super VCD (SVCD), and with slight modifications, as the .VOB (Video OBject) files on DVDs. MPEG-2 was the second standard developed by the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) and is an international standard ISO/IEC 13818, Parts 1 and 2, developed in a joint collaborative team with ITU-T: MPEG-2/System: ISO/IEC 13818-1, ITU-T Recommendation H.222.0; MPEG-2/Video: ISO/IEC 13818-2, ITU-T Recommendation H.262.
    • MPEG-3: Originally designed for HDTV, but abandoned when it was realized that MPEG-2 (with extensions) was sufficient for HDTV.
    • MPEG-4: Expands MPEG-1 to support video/audio "objects", 3D content, low bitrate encoding and Digital Rights Management (DRM). Several new (newer than MPEG-2 Video) higher efficiency video standards are included, notably: MPEG-4 Part 2 (Advanced Simple Profile) and MPEG-4 Part 10 (Advanced Video Coding or H.264). MPEG-4 Part 10 may be used on HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs, along with VC-1 and MPEG-2.
    • MPEG-7: a multimedia content description standard.
    • MPEG-21: a multimedia framework.
  • The MPEG Home Page
    The Official Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Committee site, by Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, Multimedia and Video Services, Italy.
    MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination. So far the group has produced:
    • MPEG-1: the standard for storage and retrieval of moving pictures and audio on storage media
    • MPEG-2: the standard for digital television
    • MPEG-4: the standard for multimedia applications
    • MPEG-7: the content representation standard for information search.
  • MPEG Industry Forum
  • MPEG.ORG - MPEG Pointers and Resources
  • Visible Light - MPEG Plaza
    An extensive site devoted to MPEG information, including FAQs, clips, software and more.
  • MPEG Archive
    FAQ, Utilitários, Streams, Layer 3, Áudio, Novidades, Links. The Internet MPEG CD-Rom.
  • MPEG-2 Archive
    MPEG-2 - ISO/IEC 13818. Documentation, Streams, Video, Audio.
  • MPEG X
    MPEGX.com Daily News of MPEG audio & video related software. VCD, DVD, DivX, MP3 and CD-R/RW Software.

DVD Video

DivX ;-) (MPEG-4)

DivX is a video compression technology based on MPEG-4 format. DivX codec is a open standard for MPEG-4 video, very popular worldwide, providing high quality and low bitrate. DivX is often called "the MP3 of video". The original release of the DivX ;-) video compression technology was developed by Jérôme Rota (aka "Gej") in September 1999.

DivX is specially adequated for delivery of full screen, full motion, DVD-quality video over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, video-on-demand (VOD), and home/personal video. The patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than DVD MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. MPEG-4 format takes usually only a fraction (around 10-15%) of the size of a standard DVD.

Subtitles

  • DIVXSubs
    DivX Subtitle Directory.
  • DivX SubTitles
    Great place on the net for search/get/upload DivX and DVD subtitles.

Video CD - VCD (MPEG-1) & Super Video CD - SVCD (MPEG-2)

  • Video CD FAQ
    By Russil Wvong.
  • VideoHelp.com (DVDRHelp, VCDHelp)
    Forum, Guides, Tools and hardware lists. This site will help you to make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs or DVDs that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX, MOV, RM, WMV and ASF. They also have an extensive list of standalone DVD Players with compatibility information such as CD-R/W, DVD±R/W, VCD, SVCD, MP3 and more.
  • VCDHelp.us
    FAQ, Tutorials, Help Area, SmartPAR, Downloads, Glossary, Links, News.
  • DVD2SVCD & DVD2DVD
    Freeware software bundle to rip DVDs for conversion into SVCD.
    DVD2DVD Guide & Download.
  • TMPGEnc
    TMPGEnc came from Tsunami MPEGEncoder. TMPGEnc converts *.AVI file to MPEG-1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality. TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate movie file depends on your purpose.
    Freeware version of TMPEnc, by Pegasys Inc.
    AVI to VCD with TMPGEnc, Nicky Pages' Digital Solutions.
    • TMPGEncCalc
      TMPGEncCalc is a simple GUI enhancement for TMPGEnc which attempts to get the size of the output file and remaining free space on the target drive while encoding (all in real-time). By "my GUI guy", Wandering Minds.
  • Cinema Craft Encoder
  • Ligos - Codecs
    • GoMotion MPEG SDK
      GoMotion, MPEG software codec (MPEG-1/2/4) that delivers high-quality video on Windows-based PCs.
    • Indeo
      Ligos Technology has acquired the rights to old Intel Indeo media streaming software.
      Intel Indeo Support.

Apple QuickTime


Video Software

Media Player

  • VideoLAN
    Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS. The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX. VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License.
    VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Video Edition


3D

3D Software

  • Blender
    Ferramenta de criação e edição de imagens e vídeo 3D. Blender is a fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility - all in one tidy, easily and free downloadable package.
    Created by NeoGeo studio, Dutch. In 2002, Ton Roosendaal (NeoGeo co-founder) started the non-profit Blender Foundation, buy back the rights to Blender and freely released it to the world under the GNU GPL.
    Blender open source development, by Blender Foundation.
  • Discreet
    The Autodesk multimedia division. Products for digital image creation, manipulation and editing.
  • Corel: Bryce
  • Caligari TrueSpace - 3D modeling. See also: Caligari Art Gallery - Images and Animations.
  • Ulead: Cool 3D