Best file type for transfer to dvd

[Tperez2]

I need to know what i should capture in to get the best quality transfer to dvd. Should I capture in avi or mpeg 2 and what software should i use to author the dvd???

Thanks

[housepig]

depends on your capturing hardware, and what you are capturing.

are you capturing analog video or dv? are you using a capture card with hardware mpeg-2 encoding, or software encoding?

for me, since my capture card doesn't do hardware mpeg-2 encoding, I capture to avi format, using either the Huffyuv or PicVideo MJPEG codecs. Then I convert using TMPGenc and BeSweet, and author with DVD Lab.

most of my authoring is from VHS captures with an Aver EZ DVDMaker capture card.

[ZippyP.]

...most of my authoring is from VHS captures with an Aver EZ DVDMaker capture card.

According to his profile, you two have the same card.

[Tperez2]

Oh gotta change that. Replaced the ez dvd card with Ati All-In-Wonder 9800. I can capture mpeg hybrid part hardware part software or avi i know what tmpgenc is but what is besweet???

[housepig]

but what is besweet???

it's an ac3 encoder (among other things). I capture to avi, strip out the .wav file, and convert to .ac3 before authoring.

as for the 9800, if you like the quality of the mpeg-2 capture, and you don't need to do excessive editing, by all means, capture to mpeg-2 and save some steps. I capture to avi and encode because that's how I get the quality I want.