High quality mpeg and compression?

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Brian wrote:

> I can't remember this question being asked in this news group so I'm
> hoping for some replies.
>
> Which method is likely to give the better quality picture?
>
> 1. rending at high quality and saving to the hard drive as a DVD Vob
> type files that are larger than 4.7 megs then having dvdshrink create
> a 4.7meg image (by compressing the video) that can be written to a DVD
> disk.
>
> 2. Rending the mpeg video at a lower quality so that a video will fit
> on a DVD disk
>
> Regards Brian

It's probably debatable since someone who's an expert at it can probably
make better mpegs by bypassing DVD-Shrink.

But for casual "shrinking 3 TV shows to fit on one disc" kind of thing, I
find DVD-Shrink to be fine, and much faster.