Ok, which one of those three (CCE, ReMPEG2, TMPGEnc) is best?
Quality-wise, I would say CCE SP, but it costs around $2,000 which makes it slightly hard to get for most of the people. ReMPEG2 on the other hand has certain problems maintaining average bitrate (http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/abr.cfm) — it tends to use “too much” bitrate for the beginning of the movie and has to “catch up” towards the end and uses less bitrate for the end parts, making the quality of the end part to drop more. TMPGEnc is probably the best solution as a compromise — it costs $48 and produces good quality, 2-pass VBR (http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/2-pass.cfm http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/vbr.cfm) produces quality that almost matches to that of CCE’s. Q: What’s the difference between DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM? A: DVD-RAM is useless, it doesn’t work on (stand-alone) DVD players at all. DVD+R discs barely exist yet, DVD+RW discs are costly, DVD-R discs are extremely cheap and DVD-RW discs are moderate price. “Plus” drives can
