Using Handbrake to play on Phillips 642 or 5960

[videohelp99]

I used Handbrake to fit 4 movies into a dvd-r.
I created the disc by dragging the 4 mpeg4 files from my hd to dvd-r.
When I inserted the disc to my phillips 5960 it says disk unknown.
I tried to put a smaller mp4 created by handbrake to a thumbdrive and it cannot see the mp4 file but it can see my other files like jpegs.

[ffooky]

Not what you want to hear but the DVP5960 will not read MP4 files, only AVI ones (DivX/Xvid/MP3/AC3).

I have a 5960 as well and it plays everything I've ever compressed with Handbrake (and nigh on everything else I'd expect/hope it would)

[albloom]

If you want to play on a consumer DVD player, it has to be
in the right format. Toast (7+) will happily do all that stuff
for you.

[videohelp99]

ffpooky,

I encoded with avi and it works but it is very blocky when there are a lot of movements. I encoded using 1000kbps.
Anybody knows how to do this right?

[ffooky]

Going with 2-pass encoding should certainly improve that situation and I favour a 1500kbps ave. bitrate. Conventional wisdom is that using ffmpeg as the encoder is quicker (definitely) but produces slightly lower quality results compared with xvid at the same bitrate (?).

As I look at it, you're only encoding things once so it's worth the extra time with 2-pass/xvid