DVB to DVD

[rhys87]

Hi, i have read through alot of these forums and havent seen any questions about DVB to DVD. As i record TV using a TV card and edit out ads etc... the video file is still over 4.3gb somewhere close to 5-6gb. I read that procoder seems to give the best results with DV footage does that mean it would give the best results here or would something else?

[lordsmurf]

DVB is generally as compressed as it's going to get. Best to split it onto more discs.

[rhys87]

I wanna put AFL (australian rules) on DVD which is normally 120-150mins, would i see a quality difference if i did encode?

[Baldrick]

is your dvb source dvd compliant, www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech ? then you can author and shrink it using for example dvd shrink.

or convert as usual using the best mpeg2 encoders, procoder,cce basic,mainconcept mpeg encder, tmpgenc plus,hcenc,quenc.

[rhys87]

ok, thanks ill try out the procoder 1.25 demo and see if i can see a huge quality difference, isn't procoder suppose to do interlaced video the best?

[SatStorm]

You can author "as is" any DVB source that has a 352x288, 352 x 576, 704 x 576 and 720 x 576 framesize of ANY bitrate.
(for NTSC, change 576 vertical lines to 480)

TMPGenc Author is perfect for this task

From personal experience, I can say that Shrinking ~5.5GB of a typical DVB broadcast, won't show any picture quality degration on DVD, especially if the source comes for a 704/720 x 576 broadcast with ~6.5kb/s bitrate.