To CS2014, Dafydd B. & SteveK!
It appears you three still don't really understand my intentions! I tried once to burn a DVD at DVD-HQ grade, but the result was a disc that stuttered and froze in spots throughout the duration of the video as it played on a domestic player. When burning again the same clip in DVD-SP, the disc played smoothly with
NO GLITCHES! It appears you'e always running down DVD-SP because of YOUR perceived loss of video image quality. I see no such loss, to be quite honest -
AND I'M NOT BLIND!(I'll get that in quickly before someone else makes that comment). A DVD, burned in SP, when viewed on a typical flat-screen TV at a normal distance across a room, really doesn't look as poorly as you try to make it out. And, quite frankly, you're selling a product short by saying that.
One of you mentioned using dual-sided discs, I've only seen commercially-made feature movies put on such, but have, as yet not seen dual-sided blanks, either in DVD+R or DVD-R, they're not that widely available. As to dual-layer(DVD-9, 8.5Gb discs), these are okay to store data, but for burning videos they are NOT compatible with a great number of domestic DVD plyers, even the most-recently-manufactured ones! So it's pointless to suggest them! I'm looking for overall compatibility plus trouble-free playback, even on early model players(and yes, provided they are
single-layer, a lot of earlier model players can cope with home-burn discs). So now I hope the three of you, and anyone else who has likewise criticised my methods, finally get my point!
It's no good making a DVD of 2 hours on a dual-layer disc if a domestic DVD player won't accept it(and most won't!) and it's a futile excercise burning a one-hour DVD-HQ disc if it's going to stutter and freeze at verious points through the "movie", such behaviour ruins the presentation.
Now I've had my say!
Neil.