Sony DVD Arch reencodes already compliant file??

[Rychezilla]

I've had a lot of success transferring VHS to DVD and then demuxing the DVD into a M2V and WAV file, loading into Sony DVD-A and adding menus and chapters without having to reencode. In fact the whole process takes less than 40 minutes. However this one has me stumped. My friend sent me a DVD with 2 hours and 15 minutes of concert footage on it. When I try to use the same method Sony DVD A wants to encode the file and says it will take 21 hours to do. Even if I set the bitrate low. Any ideas why it won't read this as comlpiant?? Am I correct in assuming that it may be the odd bitrate he used when making the original to squeeze over 2 hours in???

As always any help is greatly appreciated.

[canadateck]

Could be the bitrate. or maybe its PAL? and you are NTSC,Maybe Aspect ratio , What are the Specs of the video file?

[mats.hogberg]

Probably not. Either the DVD you have has been authored with a non compliant mpeg, using some authoring app that let that pass, or the mpeg is indeed compliant, but Sony DVD-A has a mind of its own what's compliant and not.
"Only" way to make bitrate not compliant is to use a too high bitrate, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Try some other authoring app (like TDA) and see what happens.

/Mats

[Rychezilla]

It's NTSC and so am I. Aspect ration is good. Now that I think about, for some reason I think it reads it as 9000 bitrate when I know for a fact it can't be. I will look at it when I get home. I've tried other ways to rip it than decrypter and get the same results. hmmm?

[Rychezilla]

Probably not. Either the DVD you have has been authored with a non compliant mpeg, using some authoring app that let that pass, or the mpeg is indeed compliant, but Sony DVD-A has a mind of its own what's compliant and not.
"Only" way to make bitrate not compliant is to use a too high bitrate, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Try some other authoring app (like TDA) and see what happens.

/Mats

Thanks I will try that but my next problem is I don't have the AC3 plug-in and I can't justify buying it for this one time use and everything else will want to re-encode I believe??? (Nero,Ulead, etc)

[psx_pirate]

if the sound is already ac-3 then you don't need the plug in.. just make sure the 're-encode the audio using the output format of the track' is not selected when the dvd files are loaded (on the widow that appears just after you load the dvd files) and it should output the sound unchanged (ie ac-3 in ... ac-3 out)

[Rychezilla]

if the sound is already ac-3 then you don't need the plug in.. just make sure the 're-encode the audio using the output format of the track' is not selected when the dvd files are loaded (on the widow that appears just after you load the dvd files) and it should output the sound unchanged (ie ac-3 in ... ac-3 out)

I have version 1.6 and can't find this anywhere. It won't accept my ac3 audio. Do I have to mux first? Am I missing something?

[Rychezilla]

Ok, I muxed the streams and loaded everything in fine. It warns me that the bitrate is too high (??) and it will create a non-standard DVD. I chose to ignore but now I can't write to DVD. Tried different burining software and media ARRRGGH! This thing was doomed from the start. Something is very bad in the source. Hours wasted..... unless someone can save me.

[psx_pirate]

Will TDA not burn it?

[Rychezilla]

No, neither will Nero or Roxio. Gets to about 90% and fails each time. Tried rebuilding from scratch with same results

[psx_pirate]

Have you checked that the dvd file produced by TDA will fit on a dvd-r (ie its not larger than 4.38GB)

[Rychezilla]

Yes, it's only about 3.8 I don't get it.