quality when burning?

[pbure0110]

i want to know how to burn movies but with out looseing quality because when i play the movie on my mac its dvd quality but when i burn it to a dvd its not the same quality. the quality on the tv is distorted and u sometimes see pixels and also it looks like its taped at the movies type of quality but its not. to burn i use toast 7 with dvd-video as the format and encoding is automatic and last the video quality is set to best

[albloom]

If your burner supports Double-Layer burning, shell out for
some DVD+R DLs. No compression. Output is the same
quality as the original.

[tomlee59]

There is a simple way to tell whether you're going to suffer decreased quality: Compare file sizes. If the source is too big to fit on the target disc by itself, then compression will have to happen first, and that will degrade quality (how much degradation depends on how much compression has to happen). Many movies don't fit on a single-layer disc, so you will have to shell out the $$ for dual-layer media if you want to avoid having to compress those. But if the original already fits on a single-layer disc (a "DVD5" movie), then you can use the less expensive media for those.

[Noahtuck]

i want to know how to burn movies but with out looseing quality because when i play the movie on my mac its dvd quality but when i burn it to a dvd its not the same quality. the quality on the tv is distorted and u sometimes see pixels and also it looks like its taped at the movies type of quality but its not. to burn i use toast 7 with dvd-video as the format and encoding is automatic and last the video quality is set to best

What are you starting with ?
Because it does not sound like you are starting with dvd's but maybe avi's (Xvid/DivX) or some other format ?

[albloom]

Excellent point, Noah. Tom and I assumed (When you assume,
you make an ass of you and me) a VIDEO_TS folder from a
commercial DVD movie.

You're right. It sounds like another kind of source.

[pbure0110]

yea its an avi

[sjk]

Maybe someone with more experience knows better, but my expectations for retaining quality have always been pretty low when transcoding from AVI (MPEG-4 compression) to DVD-Video (MPEG-1/2 compression).