DVD MF2 Giving Me Huge Headaches

[LanEvo7]

I do a lot of capturing off VHS tapes. Usually to get the best quality while still maximizing space, I encode with TMPG with VBR mode.

After capturing I use DVDMF2 to author my discs. Its use to work fine, but I formatted my computer last week and I tried to author another DVD today. To my surprise DVDMF2 is giving me problems.

My videos are encoded in 352x480 resolution with VBR average of 2070. I know this will create a non compliant DVD, but my dvd player can play it. For some reason when I select my files to author, MF2 reports a larger file than it acutally is. Like a 28mb file would come out to 80gb. I already checked do not convert compliant MPEG files. Its driving me nuts. I have no idea what is going wrong. Please someone help!!!


Or maybe someone else can recommend me another program that allows you to author non-compliant files. I don't like to use IFOedit because it doesn't allow menus.

[Specialist]

I spotted a zipped file on the Ulead FTP site:

ftp://ftp.ulead.com/silent/DVD_MovieFactory/DMF2/DMF2_EstimateSize.zip

Unzip the DMF2_EstimateSize.zip file into C:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\DVD MovieFactory 2 program directory to overwrite the original CVTAV.dll and uvmpeg.vio files.

The new updates should correct the current calculation of the estimated size in the DVD MovieFactory 2 to make the estimated size closer to the burned one.

Have you spotted the Half-D1 template in the DVD MovieFactory 2 DISC TEMPLATE MANAGER?

(Thanks FulciLives!)

Here are its specific attributes:

MPEG files
24 Bits, 352 x 480, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC)
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 2400 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48 KHz, Stereo

This is designed to fit 4 hours on a single DVD disc.

There is also the CIF template:

MPEG files
24 Bits, 352 x 240, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC)
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 1500 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48 KHz, Stereo

This is designed to fit 6 hours on a DVD.

The file I mentioned is worth a try, however.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[FulciLives]

Hello

Actually a resolution of 352x480 is a valid NTSC DVD resolution. However it is usually recommended to use a VBR with an average of 2300 to 2500 for the bitrate. So you may suffer some with your lower average bitrate setting (in terms of picture quality).

In fact Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 has it's own built-in encoder than even supports this option! The setting is called Half D-1 and is 352x480 with a MAX bitrate of 2400kbps although in my reading this format can support higher bitrates.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[con999]

Hey

I use DVDMF2 a lot, and author both NTSC and PAL.
What you describe happens to me whenever I forget to change from one to the other, NTSC to PAL and the other way.

But I guess you are aware of this.
Just a suggestion.