DVD videos

DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD (DVD-ROM) discs, and is currently the dominant consumer video format in Canada, Europe and Australia.^[1] Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder (e.g., a DVD player, or a DVD computer drive with a software DVD player). Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination of MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often multi-channel formats as described below). Typical data rates for DVD movies range from 3–10 Mbit/s, and the bit rate is usually adaptive.

DVD-Video can consist of either MPEG-2 at up to 9.8 Mbit/s (9800 kbit/s) or MPEG-1 at up to 1.856 Mbit/s (1856 kbit/s).

The following formats are allowed for MPEG-2 video:

• At 25 fps (usually used in regions where PAL is standard):

720 × 576 pixels MPEG-2 (Called full D1)

704 × 576 pixels MPEG-2

352 × 576 pixels MPEG-2 (Called Half-D1, same as the China Video Disc standard)

352 × 288 pixels MPEG-2

• At 29.97 or 23.976 fps (usually used in regions where NTSC is standard):

720 × 480 pixels MPEG-2 (Called full D1)

704 × 480 pixels MPEG-2

352 × 480 pixels MPEG-2 (Called Half-D1, same as the China Video Disc standard)

352 × 240 pixels MPEG-2

The following formats are allowed for MPEG-1 video:

• 352 × 288 pixels MPEG-1 at 25 fps (Same as the VCD Standard)
• 352 × 240 pixels MPEG-1 at 29.97 fps (Same as the VCD Standard)