OK I know the whole bit on DVDA and recompressing. I can separate to a video stream and audo stream and use it that way.

This is a real pain in the butt.

SO I just burned a movie ignoring the recompress settings and to my surprise the movie still look very good. Perhaps there is some smarts to the whole recompression where it's not a true recompress.

I compared a video burned with MainConcept and it had more noise and overall less quality of video than done with TMPGEnc.

I would expect that if DVDA had to recompress it would use the MainConcept encoder but I dont think it is because my video looked fine.

The video (recompressed) in DVDA looks better still than the MainConcept one.

So basically I cannot tell the difference from the TMPGEnc(mpeg) encoded video and the "recompressed" TMPGEnc(mpeg)?

Any opinions?