Hiya's

I'm doing up a DVD video thingi out of a friends set of wedding videos.
I've captured the vids onto my harddrive, and encoded them to mpeg-2 PAL, Layer 2 Audio mode.
The resolution before encoding was 640 x 480
After encoding I have them at 512 x 408 Or 352 x 288
I then created a DVD menu and whatnot and it all works fine. Sort of.

The 352 x 288 version has slight pausing every 3 or so seconds. I can reduce the pausing by playing the DVD on my PS2, however it dosnt stop. What have I done wrong?
Another problem is that the edges of the TV screen, maybe 1cm all around is off the screen, is this because I chose the incorrect resoultion?
I'm currently encoding a 512 x 408 version to see if that fixes it, however it takes a little while.

Other then those problems everything else works just fine.

Are there any tricks or important bits of information I should know to make a better quality DVD video thingi?

Could the pausing be due to the burning process going a little wrong? or the DVD's?

Cheers.

Hey man, I don't know what you are using to capture and author to DVD but with most DVD programs I find that 720x576 25 frames per second is pretty compatable, with players and displays.

I use primarily use Adobe Premiere Pro for cutting/effects/transitions/authoring and sometimes Nero6/Nero Vision Express3 for the menu's and stuff.

I was avoiding 720x576 as it takes aagggges for this PC to encode. Might have to just do it the long way :(