Ulead DVD MF2 not accepting compliant files

[EpiMann]

Even if I have standard compliant files for DVD authoring, Ulead DVD MF2 wants to re-encode some of those. In fact this is a little bit strange since it accepts other files with same values. When I try to create DVD folders, it gives me a warning:

This action will take some time to render. Do you want to continue?

Is there any possibility to avoid this forced rendering phase since I know those files are fully compliant? I looked into dvdmf.ini but couldn't find such a setting.

Somehow 'Do not convert compliant MPEG files' -setting doesn't affect anything and this doesn't help in my case.

Thanks in advance!

Video type: MPEG-2 Video, Field B
Total Frames: 3289 Frame(s)
Attributes: 24 Bits, 720x480
Frame rate: 29.970 Frames/Sec
Data Rate: Variable bit rate (Max. 9300kbps)

Audio type: AC-3 Audio
Total samples: 5 267 668 Samples
Attributes: 48000khz
Layer: -
Bit rate: 192kbps

[Krzyhoo]

Im not expert in MF but video bitrate looks a little bit too high and also I really doubt MF can accept AC3 sound.

[EpiMann]

Thanks for answer. It shouldn't be a reason because as I said, there's a lot of files with same values that Ulead DVD MF2 accepts.

I suppose that standard video stream for dvd can be up to 9800kbps.

And what comes to the AC3 ... I found a solution from this forum for video clips with AC3. You just change from dvdmf.ini (hidden) all attributes concerning AC3 from 0 to 1. After that it accepts those files even without any warning.

[Specialist]

And what comes to the AC3 ... I found a solution from this forum for video clips with AC3. You just change from dvdmf.ini (hidden) all attributes concerning AC3 from 0 to 1. After that it accepts those files even without any warning.

Correct.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 will accept the AC-3 files.

Did you do any *editing* of the AC-3 material following import?

If you did any *editing,* then Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 will re-encode to either LPCM or MPEG audio - unless you happen to have Ulead MediaStudio Pro and its included "LE" version of Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2, which allows for editing of AC-3 source files without re-encoding.

If you did not edit the source AC-3, then even the non-AC-3 version of Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 will burn the file to disc without re-encoding.

Thanks for supplying the file attribute information.

That helps to evaluate the issue.

If you didn't edit the AC-3 source files, then my next question would be...

Where/how did the source MPEGs originate?

Which application was used to create them?

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[EpiMann]

I didn't do any editing for the audio. In fact I tried also to re-encode it to mp2 (192kbps) and import it with video. Same thing. So the cause has to be video but I really don't understand what could be the reason causing this. Everything seems to be right.

Those files has not been generated by me, so I cannot really tell what software has been used to produce those. I got them somewhere over the internet. They were originally .vob files but I had to do renaming to .mpg before importing. There's 19 files but MF2 wants to re-encode only two of them. It accepts other files and they have exactly same attributes.

In my opinion there should be always possibility to turn off these compliant checks

[Specialist]

If you downloaded these from the Web, is it possible they originated from commercial DVDs?

If so, the pulldown possibility might be the culprit.

Otherwise...

If you're matching the properties precisely, it should work.

But it isn't.

So let's try something else.

Try setting your project settings to be slightly higher than the actual properties of your video bitrate.

It may not make any difference.

On the other hand, maybe the properties for the SOURCE video aren't being reported accurately.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[EpiMann]

I don't think that sources are from commercial DVD so don't think that pulldown is the reason.

I cannot make Ulead DVD MF2 setting to be higher than bitrates of the sources. Highest bitrate for project is something like 8324kbps and my sources are 9300kbps. Anyhow it accepts other files that are also as high as 9300kbps, weird.

I tried to analyze these files with other softwares too (for example AVIcodec) and they also reported same bitrates.

Maybe I'll try Trial version of DVD-lab and let's see if those files can be authorised there without re-encoding.

Thanks for your help!

[Specialist]

I cannot make Ulead DVD MF2 setting to be higher than bitrates of the sources. Highest bitrate for project is something like 8324kbps and my sources are 9300kbps.

Actually, one can set bitrates higher than the 8264kbps limitation associated with LPCM audio.

1. Click the second button in the lower left corner of the interface;

2. Click the CHANGE MPEG SETTINGS button;

3. Click the CUSTOMIZE option;

4. Adjust your project settings to use MPEG audio instead of LPCM and you should be able to boost the bitrate settings as high as 9800kbps.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Specialist]

Also, I just noticed a new update patch from Ulead that is now available - FREE - at the following link...

http://www.ulead.com/tech/dmf/dmf_ftp.htm

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Robert Simandl]

Uh, oh...

I installed that update patch (2.12) and now I can't import mpegs with AC-3 audio anymore! I've never had a problem authoring from AC-3 encoded mpegs since I day I installed DMF2.0, but now that I've "upgraded" to 2.12, it tries to convert the audio every time. It won't accept the AC-3 as-is anymore.

Is this something Ulead may have done deliberately to spur sales of it's $500 DVD Workshop AC-3 program?

[MachineMan]

I had the same problem. Before it would just ignore the AC3 and author with out conversion. Now with the 2.12 upgrade it doesn't work with AC3. Although everything else seems to run smoother then before.

[Robert Simandl]

This sucks...

Apparently to get AC-3 to work again, we're gonna have to uninstall/reinstall.

Or maybe it's time to try DVDLab or TMPGEnc DVD Author...