Captured mpeg to DVD

gagda1 · Member Joined: 14 Oct 2004

Hello,
I capture TV programs using a ATI TV Wonder pro on a Windows XP computer. At DVD quality, it produces 720x480 (NTSC) 48khz mpeg files. Then I copy this mpeg file over to my Linux computer. Now, on Linux, I want to create a dvd. I use dvdauthor. First, I try something very simple, a dvd without menu. So I only tell dvdauthor to create a dvd with the mpeg file previously captured. It creates the dvd structure. Then, when I watch the dvd with xine, it works. When I use totem, I'm getting the sound but no image. I also tried on windows with PowerDVD, I'm getting the cound wihtout image. What am I missing. I looks like the captured mpeg as something wrong?

Thanks,
David.

disturbed1 · Member Joined: 22 Apr 2001 Location: init 4

Watch the output in the terminal window. Look for the status of mplex to make sure it doesn't detect anything funky with your mpeg. Mplex may flag your stream wrong. PAL when it's NTSC, so on. Make sure your sources are correctly defined in your xml.

You could try Q DVD Author, puts a nice GUI on DVDAuthor. DVDStyler is another option, though I haven't tested this one out yet.

gagda1 · Member Joined: 14 Oct 2004

What do you mean my sources are correctly defined in my xml? mplex says mpeg-2 720x480 NTSC, mplex isn't complaining about my mpeg...

gagda1 · Member Joined: 14 Oct 2004

I used avidemux2 to save the mpeg file as an mpeg "DVD PS" and now my dvd works!

I'll make more tests tonight but it looks like the problem is solved.

Thanks,
David.