convert mini dv video to dvd with high quality

[jagabo]

I don't know anything about motiondv but normally "capturing" DV isn't anything more than transfering the digital data from the tape and putting it in an AVI container. A decent DV AVI editor will not reencode when saving a small piece of DV AVI as DV AVI. So your small clip should be bit-for-bit an exact copy of those frames from your camcorder.

The sky in the M2V file does appear slightly darker than the sky in the DV file on my computer. The difference appears to be that of converting the the YUV to RGB using ITU.601 vs ITU.709 matrices.

[vince49]

I don't know anything about motiondv but normally "capturing" DV isn't anything more than transfering the digital data from the tape and putting it in an AVI container. A decent DV AVI editor will not reencode when saving a small piece of DV AVI as DV AVI. So your small clip should be bit-for-bit an exact copy of those frames from your camcorder.

The sky in the M2V file does appear slightly darker than the sky in the DV file on my computer. The difference appears to be that of converting the the YUV to RGB using ITU.601 vs ITU.709 matrices.

Thanks for looking at it.
Is there anything I can do, or is this the best result I can expect ?

[vince49]

I tried to change the settings in TMPGenc to get a better result in terms of color. There's a folder called quantize matrix which apparently enable the user to modify settings related to YUV. But to be honest I don't know anything about that, so I don't really know if this can somehow fix my problem - and if yes, how to use it (like these 8x8 matrices, what does it mean to modify them ?).
Do you think it's possible to get a better result with TMPGenc (or something else), or is it the best I can get with a dvd format ?
Cheers

[jagabo]

The quantization matrix settings in TMPGEnc control sharpness and compression, not really colors. The "Output YUV data as basic YCbCr not CCIR601" is for when your RGB input luminance is already in the 16-235 range for video. All DV decoders, and most YUV converters, convert the luminance to 0-255 when converting YUV to RGB.

I'm finding that several different DV decoders are giving slightly different colors. I don't know which of them is correct. So the difference I'm seeing here could simply be the DV codec. I'm trying to figure out which decoder is doing the conversion correctly.