Been trying to figure out why the dvd authoring programs were ending early. It turns out that apparently if you put tcexctract and mplex at too low of a priority they get upset and just abort early. I now have a 3.4GB iso that was 1.95GB before. I think the movie ended sooner than close to the end too... Been tweaking a bit too. Going off current figures, it also looks like I can push up the average bitrate from 4.5Mbps to 5.5Mbps and still fit a 3 hour movie on a DVD. I'm sorta questioning how accurate this listing of bitrate is as well - I think it's using a semi-vbr over a few seconds and actually uses a slightly lower rate. Anyways, hopefully that'll help high motion a bit (the only place it seems to run into problems that degrade it from cable quality anyways, and artifacts are pretty easy to spot since my screen is so big)... Unfortunately changing bitrate currently requires a driver recompile so I can't bump it up. I'll have to look at how long most of my recordings are now that I'm not planning on keeping them on the local drive for very long even if I don't get around to watching them quickly (they'll go on either DVD or DDS tape). Maybe I can bump up the bitrate even more...