On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> wrote: > Is there any point in converting a 720p .mkv image to burn onto a > standard DVD as opposed to SD?
not sure what you are asking. I think you are asking "When making a DVD is it better to start with a 720p file and transcode it down to DVD resolution, or start with a SD res file and turn it into a DVD image?" It always pays to start with the highest res available BUT there are losses on every transcode, so if you have an mpeg2 file that is already at DVD res, you shouldn't need to transcode at all and may get as good results as starting with the 720p file (and a lot less cpu intensive). But these issues are very subjective.
