Problem Burning DVDs

[gmando27]

I was using DVD Flick and IMGburn yesterday to burn an animated show to a DVD. The files were MKV. However, once they were burnt to the DVD and I tried watching them on the TV, at times, the image would be a little blurry. It looked like some videos do on Netflix's streaming when they are starting to buffer. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix the problem or and ideas for new DVD burning software that I should use?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Welcome to VH.com and don't take this personally:
It's not ImgBurn, it's the crappy DVDFlick authoring program you are using. Get yourself a real encoder and stop converting lossy content if you are serious about making DVD's. Crap in...crap out.

[gmando27]

haha, no offense taken and thanks for the advice. I thought I would also point out that I tried playing the DVD on my xbox. That may also contribute to the reasoning of the slightly dipped quality.

[Kerry56]

I prefer AVStoDVD over DVDFlick. Use the HC encoder that is included. This will help a little, most likely, but you are still going to lose some picture quality in conversion.

[Hoser Rob]

avstodvd is way better than dvdflick, though I yanked it because I don't like using 3rd party codec packs. In fact I haven't burned a dvd in ages.

I found, after using it many times, if you want good, consistent quality with avstodvd you want to always use 2 pass variable bit mode (vbr). That uses hc enc. 2 pass should fix that occasional 'blurriness' you mentioned, which sounds to me like pixelation occurring when scenes change.

Some of the gazillion video files out there on the web are poorly encoded to begin with. You cannot make good quality dvds out of them. With any software.

In fact, the reason I used to use avstodvd was because it was the only one that worked at all decently with many of those files and kept the video and audio in sync.

And, yes, it's never going to be as good as the original file. All reencoding loses quality.