Hi,
I have captured a movie (Eraser, 105min) from tv and encoded it to fit on a dvd with another movie. Playing that dvd in my dvd player works but the quallity is not as good as I want it. Compared to the same movie encoded to a 99 cdr a few month ago, the cdr have the better quallity. There are lots of settings and some of them has changed between these two encoded, but I don't know which of them could result in lower quallity.
The changes are: (cdr <-> dvd)
capture resolution: 480x576 <-> 704x576
picvideo quallity setting: 19 <-> 18
avisynth version: 2.0.8 <-> 2.5.2
colorspace: no manual conversion <-> ConvertToYV12 after AVISource
both using the optimal script for that avisynth version (2.5 without MA)
both resize to the input resolution using overscan=2
encoding: mpeg-1 <-> mpeg-2 (both using FieldDeinterlace)
target size: 990MB <-> 1900MB (both including audio)
Could the picvideo setting change from 19 to 18 result in visible lower quallity after encoding (playing the source on computer I can't seen any difference between 19 and 1

?
Thx.
Holger