DVD Architect - picture is flickering - urgent help needed!!

[arvin]

Hello folks, here is my BIG trouble which I have to solve untill tonight.
I captured video footage from miniDV to HDD using mu firewire (lower fields etc), then I converted it to MPEG 2 using TMPGEnc plus in CBR 5700 NON INTERLACED, audio MPEG layer 2, 384.

I imported that material into DVD ARCHITECT 3.0 and made DVD meny, choosing DVD PAL 720x576, AC-3 5.1 surround option.

DVD ARCHITECT showed message that it will recompres audio and video.

After makeing DVD I played it on my DVD player on my computer and the picture was OK, but when I played it on my home standalone DVD player, the picture is flickering.

I dont know what to do, oh yes, I burn that DVD using 4x speed, now I will try to burn another using 2x(slowest).

What to do, where is a mistake, I have to solve it until tonight, please help!!!! thanks

[guns1inger]

Explain flickering with a bit more detail. It could mean many things.

[Baldrick]

if the source is interlaced set interlace in tmpgenc.
try change to upper/lower field.
try author with something that doesn't recompress the video.

or skip converting with tmpgenc and import the dv directly in dvd architect.

and this is no DVD to DVDR. moving you.

[mikiem]

DVDA requires imported mpg2 to be below a set bitrate -- set header in Restream or DVD Patcher.

Also normally requires mpg rather then m2v file -- basically muxxed format without audio stream, can create using muxer in TMPGEnc Mpgetools by not supplying audio file.

Both can result in DVDA requiring re-encode, & no option to tell it not to. Anyway, if prob isn't original field order in imported mpg2, one of those 2 methods normally works so DVDA won't re-encode the file.

[arvin]

I solved problem, just importing native DV captured via Firewire into DVD ARCH and it compressed whole file.

That was only way.

Thanks for help