Since I'm typically encoding my mpegs to MPEG 4 (divX, Xvid or WMV) and those re-encodes take a long time, I am starting to adopt the policy of always doing the QSF, as cheap insurance - The time is so small compared to the overall process time. AFAIK the VRD folks have never been willing to make a flat out statement that saving accomplishes exactly the same thing as QSF although they do imply that it's pretty close to that. My best understanding is that just saving a file from VRD does most of what QSF does but there are a few files where the additional step with QSF makes a difference (my experience anyway). See this post and the posts it references for details of my experiments with MyDVD (EMC9 version).Ĭlick to expand.In the past I used QSF very seldom, like you. One guess is you need to change something on the "Settings" page of MyDVD, possibly the video bitrate is set too low. One place to learn more about it is the VideoReDo forum - search for "DVDlab" and posts by user "Anole". There is a commercial DVD authoring program that (users say) does not re-encode and has advanced menu/navigation features: DVDlab. I agree the menu capabilies of DVDStyler are not as nice as MyDVD but I still use DVDStyler most of the time even though I have MyDVD as part of Roxio EMC9. (And you already know to save as VOB from VideoReDo if you're using DVDStyler.) My advice would be to also apply the "Quick Stream Fix" processing of VideoReDo to any mpeg before putting it on a DVD - only takes a few minutes per hour of video and it cleans it up - fixing little errors that are sometimes there. ( It is very difficult or impossible to prevent Sonic/Roxio from re-encoding.) However most DVD players will play the non-compliant video and audio formats just fine, so there is no need to re-encode either of them, and you save a lot of time by using DVDStyler. Tivo file) is not 720 width (544, 480 and 352 are common) and the audio is probably mp2.
Most likely the video from your mpeg (if it came from a. Why? To get officially DVD compliant video and audio, usually 720x480 video and Dolby AC3 audio.
DVD authoring software like Sonic/Roxio and Nero almost always re-encode. That makes it very fast and also prevents any quality loss that always occurs with re-encoding. Whatever format and type of video and audio were in your mpeg file will go right on the DVD.