converting to dvd using "DVD ffmpeg" rather than "DVD mpeg2e

[jboyd]

to convert a movie to a burnable by toast and playable tv dvd i have always used the 'DVD mpeg2enc' setting and all's generally been fine. i have a movie i want to crop (because it's sqaure with loads of black on the top and bottom). i see the crop doesn't work with mpeg2enc, so i tried using 'DVD ffmpeg'. after a while Progress was showing a few percent done (and it was a fairly large movie), but there were no output files.

was it working and i was just too impatient or was i right thinking it wasn't working? if it wasn't working is there a way to get it working?, if so what?

thanks.

[tomlee59]

The best way to figure out the answers to those questions is to click on the blue "i" in the Progress window. Out will pop a bunch of messages describing what ffmpegx is doing. You'll be able to figure out whether the thing has crashed, or is just slow by examining the messages. Cropping forces re-encoding, so that will be a compute-intensive operation. If your computer is slow, or low on RAM, etc., it could indeed take a very long time.

[jboyd]

right, thanks for the info.

i've done the settings a bit differently, and this time there's an output file being made, so all's fine now. great, thanks.