Capturing in Real time MPEG2...

[i-on-s]

and i am using TMPGENC DVD Author program to make menus and what not and export to DVD and it is giving me a error that says the GOP is too long and i was wondering do i have to capture all this video again or is there a program i can use to change the GOP or what? this is the first time i have expirenced this and i am using the same settings as i always do.

thanks.

[bugster]

You don't have to recapture, but you will have to re-encode. Try Tmpgenc for this.

Then check your capture software settings and try and make sure they are DVD compliant for the future.

[FOO]

Womble has a fixit button that claims to fix Gop length problems.
I have never had a illegal gop so I dunno if it works.
I don't see how it could avoid re-encoding most of it though.

[Roderz]

I’ve had TDA report this problem before (GOP size) but always ignored it and had no problems with playback on dozens of standalones.

Material was mostly mpeg1/2 vcd/cvd 2pass vbr – done using TMPGEncm, imported to make DVD's in TDA.

Not advocating that you should break the standards – just saying from my experience it didn’t give me any problems.

Now when I encode I make sure I force the ‘max number of frames in gop’ to be correct.

[i-on-s]

Thanks.