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Originally Posted by nibbles
Any detailed info would be helpful. I figure the
whole thing hinges on the quality of the internal A/D, and the bitrate. Do some
recorders do this better than others? Does VBR help or hurt?
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If you are using a standalone unit you are encoding directly to mpeg-2 which is burned on your DVD. The standalone will have several modes (SP, LP, EP, etc) which have a predetermined bitrate and audio codec. There are some "hard drive" standalone recorders that are better quality and more flexible. Panasonic makes one.
If you are capturing to a PC, bitrate is irrelevant to capture. You capture as uncompressed avi which has a fixed massive bitrate. Then you encode that mpeg-2 using software. The only reason to use VBR when encoding is if you are trying to squeeze extra material onto your DVD at submaximal bitrate. Otherwise, encode at max CBR, which will get you about one hour on a DVD5.
Save yourself the the time and expense and pay someone to do it.
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