Poor image quality encoding animations to mpeg2/dvd

[golden5]

Hello all! Have recently purchased dvd writer hoping to achieve better image resolution offered by dvd media.
The problem is that i work mostly in animation and heavily treated video (i.e.: high contrast, intense colours, high motion scenes), so if you would take a sample frame of my work it would show an image heterogenous in texture, colour and motion, which has resulted in my never being able to satisfactorily encode without avoiding compression artifacts, namely, blockiness and ringing at the edges of objects. Sometimes it's so noticeable it hurts!
I have tinkered about with every possible setting and nearly every software encoder available until i ran into the much outdated 'bbmpeg'. Alas! the image was crystal clear and no artifacts, but, just to be on the safe side i ran Bitrate viewer to check for bitrate compliancy: they went as high as 28000 mbps! No wonder the image was so good! and so totally unusable for dvd burning!...
So, in a last, desperate cry for help, i'm trying to find someone who uses mpeg2/dvd encoding for a little more than storing home movies or ripping the latest james bond.
Would be forever grateful to anyone who knows of a template or a particular setting which conforms to this situation. Cheers!

[Betamax]

I've had the same problem. While all my sources (also animation) are in DV (so : interlaced), I cannot find the best MPeG-2 (neither MPeG-1) solution to have as much of quality.

Using TMPGenc though, I found some settings which comes nearly close to 'acceptable'.
For GOP's, I use IBBPBBPBBPBB (1xI, 2xB, 3xP), but while SVCD isn't the same as DVD you should use for DVD only I's (1xI, 0xB, 0xP).
Be sure you're using 'floating point DCT' and always use best quality compressing.
Picture-size should be in full resoltion (either 720x480 for NTSC or 720x576 for PAL).
This should be it...

While DVD (and SVCD) are Interlaced, be sure TMPGenc is also set to produce Interlaced streams (use the correct interlaced-option : TMPGenc always uses "Field B-first", you must change this if you're source uses "Field A-first")