Highest quality Video on DVD-R ??

[monsignor]

Hi,

Bit of a newbie question im afraid

Im after some advice to help me obtain the highest possible quality of video fitted onto a DVD-R.

I use
1) DVD Decrypter
2) DVD2AVI 1.76
3) TMPGEnc Plus 2.59
4) Spruce DVD Maestro
5) Gear Pro DVD 6.02

I made a backup of John Q and the video size was only 2.2 GB
basically only half using the Disc.
How can I get the highest level of picture quality to fit the disc?
Is this to do with calculating the optimum bitrate??

Im sure it has to happen in the somewhere in the TMPGE stage of the backup.


Many Thanks

[mattstroud]

In TMPGEnc when you click on settings you can click on the button to the right of the settings thing im not sure which tab it is in, it is like two buttons one above the other it is the top one of the two, i can remember exactly where it is and i can't check as i am at work.

But you'll know when you get hte right one there will be a scroll bar sat at 50% set this to 100% and it will keep the DVD at the best quality, although im not sure why your using TMPGEnc if the whold dvd will fit on a DVD-5 anyway.

[Will Hay]

I use TMPGEnc and there is a facility (wizard) to make the file span the entire dvd-r capacity, and as a result the quality (kbs/sec) increases the further I span the file on the disk.
For instance if you're creating a file a 2000kbs/sec and it's 45% of the file size, by spanning it to 90% will give you a quality of 4000kbs/sec.
Will

[mattstroud]

but obviousley this won't make the dvd better quality, because you can't create something that isn't there.

[Will Hay]

....although im not sure why your using TMPGEnc if the whold dvd will fit on a DVD-5 anyway.

Are you saying you can just straight copy a dvd to a dvd-r if the file size is small enough?
Just copy to copy?
I have just bought a Panasonic DVD burner and intended to use CladDVD, DVD2Avi and TMPGEnc for everyone I ripped.
Thanks,
Will

[mattstroud]

right, to save you a lot of time if the DVD is small enough to fit on the DVD then you don't have to use TMPGEnc at all, or DVD2AVI.

The easiest way (i find) is to use DVD Decrypter, in IFO mode copy the files to the hard drive but in teh stream processing tab set the audio and the video stream to demux, then you will have an AC3 file and a M2V file all you need to do then is import these into DVD Maestro compile the DVD then burn, much quicker than having to re-encode with TMPGEnc.

[mp3superfreak]

If it's a DVD-5, then use this simple guide. All you need is SmartRipper and a burning program (Nero, RecordNow, etc)

Simple DVD-5 to DVD-R Guide

[Crawl]

If DVD-5

DVDDecryptor iso read/write...

How hard can it be.....

Crawl