11-24-2004, 10:47 PM
Hehe, I bought 50 DVD-Rs for 10$CDN, I expected them to be crap but they work quite well on all of my stanalone DVD players so far. Don't know if they will last long or not but for sure I'm going to get more.
DVD-Shrink is a good program but for best quality for compressing dual layer to single layer DVD-Rebuilder is the program to use, it uses CCE to re-encode the video and will re-author the DVD after by itself so it is pretty simple to use.
I think a PC DVD burner is alot more flexible than a standalone one but I'm not too familiar with how standalone ones work, anyways, recording TV for me is useless as I don't even have cable/satelite and still use an antenna to watch TV. I can just download TV shows with Bittorrent in DivX/Xvid, the quality is very good and my standalone DVD player can play most Divx/Xvid files in avi container. It doesn't playDivX/Xvid with Qpel or GMC nor does it play .ogm files but thats no big deal as it is quite simple and quick to convert ogm to avi.
DVD-Shrink is a good program but for best quality for compressing dual layer to single layer DVD-Rebuilder is the program to use, it uses CCE to re-encode the video and will re-author the DVD after by itself so it is pretty simple to use.
I think a PC DVD burner is alot more flexible than a standalone one but I'm not too familiar with how standalone ones work, anyways, recording TV for me is useless as I don't even have cable/satelite and still use an antenna to watch TV. I can just download TV shows with Bittorrent in DivX/Xvid, the quality is very good and my standalone DVD player can play most Divx/Xvid files in avi container. It doesn't playDivX/Xvid with Qpel or GMC nor does it play .ogm files but thats no big deal as it is quite simple and quick to convert ogm to avi.