¿Is it worth authoring a DVD?

[gnola14]

Hi folks, this is my first post, so go easy on me

I have 3 avi files of ~700 Mb (approximately 92 minutes long) each. Instead of just burning them into a DVD, I thought it would look neat to have a menu where you could choose which movie to see, choose subtitles, etc.

So I created said menu (in DVD Styler) and when I was about to burn the project, it turned out the current bitrate (3000 kBps) was too high so I had to lower it to 1800 KBps. The result was a movie with a quite crappy quality (on an LCD monitor, not so much on a regular TV).

I ended up quite dissappointed, so I want to know your oppinion ¿Is it worth authoring a movie DVD?
¿When should I do it (only with homemade videos, with movies, etc)?

Thanks!

[hech54]

3 full-length movies on one DVD will always result in crap quality....especially when you are starting off with terribly compressed/quality-compromised material to begin with.

[lowellriggsiam]

I only author DVDs when I intend to share them with others, with all this new technology (HD media players) I have had little reason to author anything. In your case the dvd authoring program seems to weigh heavily on the outcome. You might try the same thing using convertx2dvd to see if you get more favorable results.

[Kerry56]

If you still want all three on one dvd, you can make a DVD-9 and burn to a double layer dvd. Only use Verbatim brand DL +R media by the way.

The size is not double, it goes up to 7.9gb from the 4.3 you can put onto a single layer dvd, but the quality will be much better than what you got on your first attempt. I'd use AVStoDVD for this project and the HC encoder that is included.

[gnola14]

Thanks for the replies! I guess I'll have to stick with plain AVI's for now