MPEG-1 - the father of the MPEG family - was a revolution in video formats over 15 years ago. It offered a comparatively good quality video with a low bit rate. Satellite broadcasting grew fast and MPEG-1 had to be changed. The improved version of MPEG-1 was introduced in 1992 and called MPEG-2. MPEG-2 had a better compression scheme yet the resolution and the number of frames per second was higher than in MPEG-1. How was that possible?
The developers of MREG group found out that 95% of the video data is often more than once repeated in other frames. Such data was thought redundant and was cut off and replaced by one source piece. This replacement can be done without prejudice to the video quality. Besides, MPEG-2 had improved audio compression scheme.
MPEG-2 is so good to compress video retaining highest quality that now people can store hundreds of movies on the hard drives. One needs just a good video converter like Total Movie Converter from CoolUtils. No matter what format your movie is Total Movie Converter is sure to recognize it and convert to MPEG-2.
The output quality depends not only on the target format but also on the settings. Common video converters do not offer a wide choice of settings; their settings are often limited to the destination folder. Total Movie Converter is very flexible. Users can set all the settings themselves. For example to set the output image size (from 352x576 to 720x576) or select the output MPEG file format (DVD NTSC, DVD PAL, SVCD NTSC, SVCD PAL, VCD NTSC, VCD PAL) or select samplerate and channels for the audio. Such flexibility helps to reach the best result in every particular case. Besides, Total Movie Converter fastens the process of conversion using all your CPUs or just the one that you set. No wonder Total Movie Converter soon become very popular with both advanced users and beginners.
