DVD to MPEG Converter
As one of the best versatile DVD to MPEG converters, Any DVD Converter can rip DVDs to MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The converted MPEG-2 videos can be burned to DVD and watched on both NTSC and PAL TV sets. And the MPEG-4 videos can playback on iPod, Zune, PSP, iPhone, Apple TV, cell phone and many other PMPs.
Any DVD Converter is also a powerful video converter. It can convert FLV, AVI, ASF, VOB, RMVB and many other video formats to MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. You can customize the video size for the MPEG videos to make sure the converted videos fit your media platform.
Convert DVD to MPEG
Any DVD Converter Pro can rip DVD and convert various types of video formats to MPEG videos.
- Supported input formats: DVDs, avi, asf, mov, mp4, m4v, rm, rmvb, flv, mkv, mpg and vob
- Supported output formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
Audio-Video Parameters for MPEG
With Any DVD Converter, you can adjust AV parameters to get the customized MPEG videos exactly what you want. Following is a brief sheet indicating selectable settings for MPEG videos.
| MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-4 | |
| Video Codec | MPEG-1 Video | MPEG-2 Video | MPEG-4, xvid, H.263 |
| Video Size | 720×576, 720×480, 704×576, 640×480, 480×480, 480×576, 480×272, 382×240, 352×288, 176×144, 128×96 | 720×576, 720×480, 704×576, 640×480, 480×480, 480×576, 480×272, 382×240, 352×288, 176×144, 128×96 | For all sizes of iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Sony PSP, 3G cell phones |
| Video Aspect | 4:3, 16:9 | 4:3, 16:9 | - |
| Video Bitrate | 1500, 1152, 1000, 768, 512, 256 | 1800, 1500, 1000, 768, 512, 256 | 2500, 1500, 1000, 768, 512 |
| Video Frame rate | 25, 29.970 | 25, 29.970 | 25, 30 |
| Audio Codec | MP2 | MP2 | AAC |
| Audio Bitrate | 224 | 128, 224, 384 | 32~320 |
| Sample Rate | 44100 | 44100, 48000 | 48000, 44100, 32000, 24000, 22050, 11025, 8000 |
| Aduio Channel | 2 | 2 | 1, 2 |
MPEG
MPEG is the audio-video standard developed by Moving Picture Experts Group. MPEG was established in 1988. Major MPEG standards include MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. There MPEG formats had underlay the solid foundation for many other video and audio formats later, like H.263 and 3GP. New standards such as MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 are being developed to meet the future requirements.
MPEG-1
The basic idea behind MPEG video compression is to remove spatial redundancy within a video frame and temporal redundancy between video frames. MPEG-1 allows video to be compressed by 50:1 to 100:1 ratios. MPEG-1 is designed to produce bit rates of 1.5Mb/s or less, and is intended to be used with images of size 352x288 at 24-30 frames per second. MPEG-1 is the standard of VCD.
MPEG-2
Soon after the release of MPEG-1, the MPEG Group completed definition of MPEG-2 Video, MPEG-2 Audio, and MPEG-2 Systems. MPEG-2 is the standard for DVD. MPEG-2 is used as the format of digital television signals that are broadcast by terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite TV systems. MPEG-2 is also used in some HDTV.
MPEG-2 Part-2 is similar to MPEG-1 standard, but also provides support for interlaced video, the format used by analog broadcast TV systems. MPEG-2 video is not optimized for low bit-rates at standard definition resolutions. All standards-compliant MPEG-2 Video decoders are fully capable of playing back MPEG-1 Video streams. MPEG-2/Video is formally known as H.262.
MPEG-2 Part 7 specifies a non-backwards-compatible audio format, which is often referred to as MPEG-2 AAC. AAC is also defined in Part 3 of the MPEG-4 standard.
MPEG-4
MPEG-4 was defined by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). The MPEG Group also set up the standards of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. MPEG-4 delivers high quality of audio and video streams, especially for cell phone and broadband. Besides audio and video, MPEG-4 also supports 3D objects, sprites, text and other media types.
MPEG-4 is able to render DVD-quality video (MPEG-2) and remain lower data rates and smaller file sizes at the meantime. MPEG-4 adopts AAC instead of MP3 as the audio codec.
DVD
DVD uses MPEG-2 video as its standard, but allows more flexible resolutions in different TV systems. DVD supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, NTSC and PAL TV systems, and various video resolutions ranging from 720 × 480, 704 × 480, 352 × 480, to 352 × 240 pixel.