Why do my burned dvd's look bad quality?

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    I have tried using dvd flick and convertx to dvd amongst other software to burn my downloaded films to disk but the quality always looks shocking, like a cheaply made film, they are also jumpy, and i'm talking about good films that were out years ago such as 'signs' and 'leon' what am i doing wrong? I am using a hp pavillion dv6 laptop with windows 7, someone please help I've wasted so many disks, tried so many programs and they always turn out the same...
     
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    If the downloads are highly compressed AVI files originally from a DVD, then converting them back to DVD is one more quality hit.

    When the downloaded files are converted to DVD format (sitting in a folder on the HDD)and played back on the PC, are they low quality?
     
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    Thank you for the reply attar, just tried playing back a converted dvd and it's still slightly jumpy on the pc but much better quality, so is there no way around this?
     
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    - not the DVD disk - the files that were output to the HDD folder after conversion and before burning.

    You might try converting with FAVC instead of DVD Flick - it uses a different encoder.
     
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    yeah it was the files that were output to the HDD folder that I tried, I'll see how I get on with FAVC.
     
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    Does favc work with windows 7 as i can't seem to be able to download? Note I'm ok with computers but not the best :)
     

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