Off topic Question about DVD recording quality

[SirJYK]

First, I would like to say that I have been so happy with GBPVR. The support on this forum is fantastic, period. Having gotten that out of the way, I have an off topic question: Where would I go, such as another forum, to find out about recording or archiving shows to DVD without losing picture quality?

Problem: I just started archiving some shows to DVD. When I play the recording from the hard drive, everything is fine. However, when I archive to DVD and play with my set-top DVD player, i notice some "smearing or tearing" during high action scenes. I am using the bundled Ulead software version 3 to record to DVD. I have Easy CD & DVD Creator, version 6, but it does not offer the editing of the front and back end of the clips as the Ulead software does. It seems as if some of the data is being lost during the recording stage. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[dgeezer]

have you tried doom9 http://www.doom9.org/ and videohelp http://www.videohelp.com/

Both of these sites have a wealth of information, almost too much at times.

[dgeezer]

I personally have used ulead in the past with decent results, but, now I use a combination of videoredo to edit my files and to save the result as a .vob, dvdauthorgui to author the DVD and then Nero to do the burning.

I've had good results with this method, however, videoredo is not free. I also use videoredo in combination with comskip to automatically cut out commercials.

[SirJYK]

I will check these sites out. As you can well imagine, I am interested in the free stuff.

Thanks so much