TMPGEnc and high quality settings for DVD

[Stile]

Does anybody know how I can get the highest quality of DVD file when I code with TMPGEnc (from DV to MPEG-2)? I get blocks on 6 Mbit/s (1-pass CBR, 10 bit precision, motion precision is set to highest quality) and I want to get more quality picture. Can someone write options for advanced setting (GOP structure, number of I,P and B frames) so I can get the more quality video and this video has to be DVD compliant DVD, of course, so I can play it in my stand-alone DVD player.
Thanks...

[Lamont Cranston]

What is your source? It sounds like the source has a lot of noise, or the image is waving like a flag, which is using up your video data rate.

I have used this template:

http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0165394101/tmpgenc_template.html

[bugster]

Home video is notoriously difficult to encode. Lots of movement due to camera shake eats up the available data rate. Try using the supplied DVD template except change the encode to CQ or 2pass VBR, with max bitrate set to 8000. This way the encoder can allocate the data where most needed and not waste data on less shaky images. I don't think you can do much if anything with the GOP structure without going outside DVD specs. You can always try extending the GOP and see if your player will handle it but generally speaking, more B and P frames within a GOP will cause a loss in quality.

Anyway, hope this helps.

[Stile]

What is your source? It sounds like the source has a lot of noise, or the image is waving like a flag, which is using up your video data rate.

I have used this template:

http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0165394101/tmpgenc_template.html

Well, the source is Digital8 video...

[Stile]

Home video is notoriously difficult to encode. Lots of movement due to camera shake eats up the available data rate. Try using the supplied DVD template except change the encode to CQ or 2pass VBR, with max bitrate set to 8000. This way the encoder can allocate the data where most needed and not waste data on less shaky images. I don't think you can do much if anything with the GOP structure without going outside DVD specs. You can always try extending the GOP and see if your player will handle it but generally speaking, more B and P frames within a GOP will cause a loss in quality.

Anyway, hope this helps.

Yes, but with same settings (CBR 6 Mbit/s) I get much better picture with built-in MPEG-2 coder in Premire 6.5. Bur the video is choppy when I play it on my stand-alone DVD player. It has pauses for 0.5 sec...

[Lamont Cranston]

Choppiness? Let me ask the obvious you do have the encoder set for b frame first?

Blocking, Look in the encode log in the first pass of the two pass vbr for TMPGEnc and see what the video data rates are.

[Stile]

Choppiness? Let me ask the obvious you do have the encoder set for b frame first?

Yes, the GOP starts with B. Example: BBIBBPBBP... etc. But I can't change this GOP in settings in build in Premiere encoder. Do you know how to change it?

[Lamont Cranston]

Stile I should have said B field first not B frame first. Sorry. If the interlace fields are encoded in the incorrect order it will cause jerky motion.