Need a few tips with converting an avi

[X-guy]

Hi all
I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers as on whats the best settings to convert a single avi 350MB (an episode) to a DVD (trying to get the max quality possible),i tried playing with the Q Factor and Image Quality Priority and it still doesn't look as good as it should.

Im using one pass VBR,which IMHO is enough for a single episode that short (of course if you think that a multipass VBR is preferable i would like to hear).

Im using CCE.

Thanks :)

[Matthew]

Garbage in = garbage out, not much you can do about that.

One thing you can try is to use the CCE antinoise filter, which blurs the material.

[X-guy]

Garbage maybe,but no matter what i do,the end result is lower quality than the avi movie itself.

[Matthew]

avi->MPEG2 is never going to be lossless, a re-encode=quality loss. Of course I don't know how bad the degredation is in your case.

If you are placing a ~45 min avi on a DVD then CBR should be fine if you don't care about size.

[X-guy]

Yeah i really don't care about size,ok then CBR it is.