Poor and inconsistant DVD quality from HD footage

I have read endless discussions on how to get the best quality DVD from HD footage but here is my specific issue:
After testing and tweaking dozens of compressor settings with a short 16 sec clip of my footage, I found a setting that looked the best (though still not great). . . 90min best quality, de-interlaced, switched to progressive. I saved the setting and then applied it to the full 30min sequence but it looks like junk even before sending to DVD SP (pixelated, horizontal lines)?! I'm totally baffeled? Why does my 16 second sample look fine but my 30min sequence look awful using the exact same settings using the same footage?

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HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
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Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
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unclemano wrote
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