ATI AIW 9700 Capture

[sbain]

I have been on these forums for a few months and asked for some advice that you guys provided good sound answers to in the past on setting up my system. Well I finally got it!

So lets do the relevant run down on it:

ABIT IC7 Canterwood 800 FSB, HT, Dual Channel DDR Mobo
P4c 2.6 GHz @ 800 FSB w/HT
2 x 512MB OCZ RAM 3500
2 x WD 120s w/8MB buffers
1 x WD 80 w/8MB buffer (system drive)
1 x A05 Panasonic DVD-R
1 x Panasonic DVD drive
(all drives on seperate DMA channels w/xtra controller card)
ATI AIW 9700
Thermaltake A6000A case
Enermax 465 PSU
Windows XP Home SP1A

Just got setup over weekend and did some capping with ATI MMC (whatever version came with Card)... dropped a few frames (<1% but that was only when I was running a bunch of other stuff and it didn't even show up until after I was capping for like 10 minutes so the actual number must be VERY small)

OK... Now, here is where I need your help. I am capping off DSS Dish through S-Video and HQ Audio Cables to the ATI Dongle... Direct to HQ MPEG-2. I only plan on capping TV and such off Sat and would really like to stick with direct MPEG-2 rather than AVI as I think it eliminates alot of headaches (unless you disagree?)

What software do you recommend to get this ATI-MMC-generated MPEG-2 to a DVD-R with the least amount of fuss and muss. I am so lost with the options but I know that I have to convert the .mpeg file to a VOB etc. What software do I use for that? (simple but good quality)

After that I assume I can just use Nero to burn the source files to DVD-R.

So am I correct here... Is there just one step I need to deal with?

See, I tried using TMPGENC last night but it said it wouldn't deal with my MPEG file directly. I then tried to open up the file with FlaskMPEG but have no idea what I am doing there.

Also, another couple of questions:

Is there a time limit on my MPEG-2 capture files (I am using NTFS)? I want to be able to achive movie-length captures... don't care about chapters (one big long MPEG file is fine)... I guess this means I may need to lower the bitrate on my capture to fit on a single DVD-R?

Do I need to revert to the older MMC (say 7.7) versus the packaged version? Do I need these fancy MMC Reg tools in the tools section?

So, to summarize, assuming I want direct MPEG-2 capture what software path leads me in the shortest time (with the least headaches and high quality) to a single chapter DVD-R that should work in my standalone DVD player?

Any help you could offer would be much appreciated.

[sbain]

Oops!

Sorry, my Hardware list was wrong. DVD drive should have read:

1 x A05 Pioneer DVD-R
1 x Pioneer DVD drive

Sorry.

[Sulik]

You don't need to revert to older MMC versions and you don't need the MMC reg tools with MMC 8.x.
Simply use the default "DVD High" preset. You might want to make a custom preset depending on how much you want to fit on a single DVD
(quality vs size tradeoff).