Thanks for the detailed answer!
As for the 352x480(576) templates:
They should be fine for fitting 90 min movies to one CD I guess.
Or fitting monumental movies with ~3h playtime on 2 CDs.
It's the same ratio per cd, so I guess you don't have to make two different templates.
It's a matter of solving the task to fit the movie:
(a) lower resolution
(b) lower relative quality
You could just chose optimal quality for each resolution and chose the resolution according to the number of minutes you want to fit on one CD.
for example:
120 min per CD: 352x240
90 min per CD: 352x480
60 min per CD: 704x480
One would have to find the optimal trade-off between
(I) bitrate
(II) resolution
(III) quality/compression settings (quantization etc.)
And I guess you already did that with your templates, so a 80 min movie on one cd would look better with the 352x480 than with a "down-tweaked" 704x480 template.
On the other hand, a 60 min movie(-part) would look better with the 704x480 template than with an "up-tweaked" 352x480 template.
Since I only tested your standard PAL resolution template, I am not speaking from experience. I just wanted to share my "train of thought".
Guess it's time to buy myself a decent (=KVCD supporting
) DVD player.
Keep up the good work!
mfG, (German ~ "with friendly greetings")
b00n