Evan's post was about going from Movie Maker, not DVD Maker.
DVD Maker's only output is DVDs... with standard VOB files on them.
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"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:10:28 -0400, "PapaJohn"
> <papajohn@chartermi.net> wrote:
>
>>I use the DV-AVI format to maintain whatever quality is there... not
>>improve
>>it. But yes, you need to hard drive space for them.
>>
>>You're only other choice with Movie Maker is the WMV file type, which is
>>compressed. The highest quality choice in Vista is the 3 Mbps one when
>>heading to DVD. That's better than the maximum of 2.1 of MM2.1 in XP, but
>>still only about 1/2 of the bitrate of a high quality DVD MPEG2 file.
>>
>>When I don't use the DV-AVI choice, I use a custom profile to keep the WMV
>>files up at the 6 to 8 Mbps bitrate level. See my website's Save Movies >
>>Custom WMV Profiles page.
>
> Wow, that's interesting! You can't output to MPEG-2 in DVD Maker when
> that's the default source file type for making DVD's? Why is Microsoft
> so anal to force you to use WMV? I agree that 3 Mbps in WMV will give
> reasonably good quality, but why not support the standard?
>
> Damn Microsoft looks dumber every day through these eyes.
>
> Let me guess, DVD Maker probably doesn't support two pass encoding
> either. Well, I guess Microsoft doesn't take video editing or DVD
> creation seriously which is why they just include toy applications.
>