While plenty of people dismiss video DVD & Blu-ray discs as obsolete tech, “Sales of DVD, Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray discs declined 19.5% to $1.97 billion in the US in 2021 while disc rentals declined 21.2% to $883 million.” [ flatpanelshd[.]com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1644476313 ] That’s just short of 2 billion reasons why video on optical discs still exists.
AnyMP4 DVD Creator is designed primarily to be easy to use. For mid-high range DVD video quality, you want to encode the video elsewhere as mpg2 VBR [Variable Bit Rate] and use a DVD authoring app that does not insist on re-encoding. The way an authoring app handles subtitles, if at all, can also determine your preferred authoring app. Video DVD menus & features actually get quite complicated, requiring a fair amount of learning & higher end software. Blu-ray video discs are easier because unless you’re a Java coder, all you can do at home is the simple stuff – the software used for the discs you buy retail cost thousands of dollars. Encoding Blu-ray video *to spec* may or may not matter, depending on your player [it usually doesn’t], but while the x264 encoder in the ffmpeg code this app uses can do Blu-ray spec encoding, it requires very specific settings, usually meaning a separate app for encoding & an authoring app that will use that video as-is. For video DVD & Blu-ray you’ll want to use the free ImgBurn to write the single or dual layer discs.
AnyMP4 DVD Creator adds the program’s folder, with 151 files, 18 folders, at ~190MB. You also get C:\ ProgramData\ AnyMP4 Studio\, AnyMP4 Studio & data folders in C:\Users\ {UserName]\ AppData\ Local\, MediaInfo in C:\Users\ {UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\, and AnyMP4 Studio + the Log Files folder in C:\Users\ {UserName]\ Documents. I recorded 242 new registry entries in my Win7 32-bit VM – one key for the app, one for uninstall, and several for apparently downloadable templates.