Hello All,

I'm just curious to know what encoding formats people have had good luck with. Here is my situation.

I have yet to get into the HD world of home video. I am using a JVC Everio camcorder that records in MOD format. It isn't the greatest, but for an SD camcorder it does pretty well.

Within the last year or two I have stopped burning discs altogether. For sharing with family I upload to youtube and all of my TVs either have DirecTV with Mediashare, which allows me to view my home videos over my home network on any TV in my house, or Sony blu-ray with DLNA. (The blu-ray plays better quality and seems less buggy.)

Before purchasing CyberLink I'd used Windows Movie Maker so most of my videos up to this point are WMV format. It's decent and has always worked fine but I recently took a vacation to Hawaii and want to do this video in the best SD format possible while not hogging a ton of disc space.

I've obviously tried most of the relevant WMV options for DVD quality as well as MP2 DVD HQ, SP, etc. as well as MP4. I wasn't impressed with how my videos came out encoded with MP4. MP2 DVDHQ looked pretty good on my TV but for some reason on my computer it seems to confuse Windows Media Player and it alternates back and forth between 4:3 and 16:9 playback even though the entire video is 16:9 and was produced as such in PD10.

I have not experimented much with H264 but I did do one short test and it looked really promising.

Sorry for the novel. Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone in a similar situation with a non-HD camcorder and you've found an encoding format that gives really good results?