I know this post can fit into several forums, so if this is the wrong one, please let me know.
I have just gotten a DVD+RW and WinDVR to go with my ATI Radeon 7500 AIW. I want to record shows and back them up to DVD. I've run into a few snags and can't quite find the answers in the how to guides on this site.
1. If I record at SVCD quality, the files are much bigger than I expected from my experience with DVD2SVCD. With DVD2SVCD, I can get a 60 minute movie onto 1 CD with Great quality. With WinDVR, the recorded MPEG-2 is over 1G in size. I think this has to do with WinDVR using CBR and me using 4 pass VBR with DVD2SVCD.
2. Also when recording at SVCD, the audio is 1 second behind the video.
3. If I record at DVD quality in WinDVR, then use the DVD2SVCD "hack" of tricking DVD2SVCD into thinking this recording is a DVD, it errors out on me (forget the part, but I think it is "BeEasy" or something like that?).

I would like to record the shows, cut out the commercials, then convert to SVCD (since the quality is great and I figure I should be able to get like 6 or 7 shows per DVD in that format (figuring DVD2SVCD gets a 60 hour movie to 1 CD or about 700 megs, then divide 4.7G by 700 megs would be 6.7 shows per DVD plus whatever I can save by cutting out commercials) Once I have them in SVCD, I would like to put them on DVD+R with a menu that would let me select which one to watch.

I know there have to be other readers of this site that are doing the same thing and can point me in the right direction.

TIA for your help.

Craig Tompkins