I just got back from reviewing my dvd at a friends house. It was shot 24 fps and I have struggled getting a good quality video with an mpeg-2 – in wmv player as well as on youtube. So I found the thread, and rendered out the mpeg-2 as stated with the exception as keeping a CBR at 9.5MB instead of of 8. I have had decent luck with wmv files also as another guy stated.
Essentially, I had two dvds. One with the wmv conversion through dvd architecht and the other with the mpeg-2 with ac3 as I mentioned above. The quality was pretty well the same I noticed between the two. The file with the mpeg-2 was much smaller. However, in the middle of the MPEG dvd it starts to lag and I loose sound.
Not sure what’s going on. Is it the 8-9.5MB difference? I thought I would get a better quality out of a 13 min short film.