mpeg to avi to video_ts with what settings?

[RioCreations]

Hi everyone,

I used a PVR to record a TV program into my Mac. I would like to convert it to into AVI XviD. To preserve the best possible quality, what setting whould I use in mpeg2enc > Options?

Once it's converted into AVI XviD, I will use either Toast or iDVD to convert it to VIDEO_TS and ad chapter markings.

Does anyone have suggestions on which mencoder XviD options to use:
High Quality
Use B-frames
4 motion vectors
Two-pass encoding
Trellis quantization
Quarter pixel ME (qpel)
i-frames

fast bilinear, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos or bicubic spline?

Help!?!

Rio.

[Case]

Does anyone have suggestions on which mencoder XviD options to use:
High Quality, Use B-frames, 4 motion vectors, Two-pass encoding, Trellis quantization, Quarter pixel ME (qpel), i-frames

Did you read what the developer wrote about these options?

fast bilinear, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos or bicubic spline?

Testing scaling methods

[mats.hogberg]

You don't go mpg -> XviD -> mpg -> DVD.
You go mpg -> DVD. Taking a detour over compressed AVI will only take away lots of quality.
If you can capture to mpg, capture to DVD specifications mpg - Then it's just a matter of authoring it to DVD.

/Mats