ATI Capture Questions

[BOXINGJUNKIE]

I have the ATI All in Wonder Radeon 8500 128 meg video card. I want to know what is the best settings to use to capture for DVD. I want the best quality possible. Im captureing at 720x480 MPEG2. My question is should I mess with the P and B frames? Right now they are set to P=4 and B=2. Also, should it be set to CBR or VBR? I have the Video bit rate set to 15mbs. This is the max. I also have the Motion Estimation Quality set to 100 (max). Any help is appreciated.

Thanks Boxingjunkie

[patrickm]

the dvd standard max bitrate is 9.8 Mbps.
usually good dvds range up to about 8Mbps avg (VBR 9.8 max)
IBP 15/3 (P=4 B=2)
copy the DVD profile and change the motion estimation as high as you can w/o dropping frames ( that <1% dropped can be a fluke, but if you see 1% or higher or choppy video then lower the setting)
make sure you're using MMC 7.7.0.1, since you need 48khz audio for dvd compliance too.