mpeg to DVD

[BENAMIE]

I am new to this, so please bear with me.

My brother just moved to Iceland, from USA. He has asked me to record 6-7 hours a week of TV, and burn it to DVD.

My computer has a ATI TV Wonder VE tuner card, running software v8.0, and a Pioneer DVD (-)(+) RW drive. I have uLead (not sure what version) for DVD authoring software.

I simply want to get as many shows onto 1-2 dvd's per week so I can get them to him. I have good knowledge of how to capture the shows, but i'm not so good at which format I should be recording in. I also have 80GB free on the hd. Do I need more space to do this job?

BTW, I did a trial run last week, and was able to record a 1hr TV show in mpeg2 to about 2.7gb. I then burnt it to DVD-R (which took about 2.7gb), and it worked in the standalone dvd player flawlessly! However, I do not want to send 6 dvd per week. PQ was almost as good as my first tivo!

Ben

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Re: mpeg to DVD

Originally posted by BENAMIE
I do not want to send 6 dvd per week.Ben

encode ur video at low resolutions, lower ur bitrate aswell, say round 3000. check if the quality is acceptable.[though it will be better then svcd of 2500 if viewed on tv].

my power director has 3 options for dvd
1: long play 352*288 at 1750 180 min can be fit on dvd.
2: standard play 704*576 at 3400 120 min can be fit on dvd.
3: high quality 720*576 at 8000 only 60 min per dvd.

incase of ntsc resulotion will change like 352*240 for ntsc instead of 352*288 pal..