My experience with VS8 was/is frustrating to say the least.

I captured into Mpeg with LPCM, so it IS DVD compliant (VBR 7000 or so). If I then, with no editing, slicing etc. go to the share tab and begin the process to burn and it reencodes the whole thing. This happens regardless if I have chosen to convert the audio to AC3.

Now, if I capture, close VS8, reopen VS8, go directly to the Share tab, add the file I captured in the first step above, and choose to output it goes right to the muxing (not sure about the verbiage there) step and does NOT reencode.

NOTE: I do have the do not reencode if compliant option checked.

any suggestions on the above would be appreciated,
Bob