Neither type is really acceptable, in my opinion, unless you use more than one disc. For standard SVCD quality, I think a two hour movie would come out on 4 discs, but the quality was quite acceptable to me. Sqaushing movies to fit on one disc (high compression) really kills the video. I was going to post a link to a site that had quite a bit of information on creating these types of discs... but it seems to have disappeared.