I have spent a lot of time reading these forums as...

I have spent a lot of time reading these forums as a way of educating myself on the best way to produce a high quality DVD from a digital video camera. It seems that TMPGenc is highly recommended as a encoder. I have been using Movie Maker 2 to capture and edit. Today I downloaded a trial version of TMPGenc Plus and used it to convert a dv-avi type movie I saved in MM2 to an MPEG file. Next I used the Sonic MyDVD application that came with my PC to author both the dv-avi movie (from MM2) and the MPeg file (from TMPGenc). I played the two movies back to back on my stand alone dvd player/TV and could not see any difference in quality between the two movies. My next question is why is TMPGenc so often recommended? I seem to get the same results with MM2 that comes free with Windows XP. What am I missing? Thanks!