Encoding to MPEG-2 for DVD with Compressor

It is important to encode, following the DVD standard so that it plays on DVD players that follow these standards. Here is a small snippet from Wikipedia regarding MPEG-2 and DVD standards.
The DVD-Video standard uses MPEG-2 video, but imposes some restrictions:
Allowed Dimensions
720 × 480, 704 × 480, 352 × 480, 352 × 240 pixel (NTSC)
720 × 576, 704 × 576, 352 × 576, 352 × 288 pixel (PAL)
Allowed Aspect ratios (Display AR)
4:3
16:9 (1.85:1 and 2.35:1, among others, are often listed as valid DVD aspect ratios, but are actually a "letterboxed" 16:9 image)
Allowed Frame rates
29.97 frame/s (NTSC)
25 frame/s (PAL)
Here we can see that my DVD now meets the FPS specification, but I now have to encode it to MPEG-2 whilst changing the resolutioon from 720p, which is classed as high-definition, to 720x576, for a PAL DVD.

Compressor makes this an easy task with it's preset DVD profile and following the same methods as before, I used this profile to encode my DVD. This also handles the audio, producing a .ac3 alongside my .m2v.

Above: Best quality, 90 minutes DVD profile I used to encode with.

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