How do I convert 1080i.**.ts to DVD5 please?

[vwgolfman]

I have files from ***.1080i.0001.ts through to ***.1080i.0073.ts
They are all 100Mb in size making it (I think) a DVD9 in HDTV format?
I don't understand HDTV or what 1080i means.

All I wish to do is convert these ts files into a DVD5 (FIVE) image in order that I may burn it.

Please can you great guys explain how this can be done?

Many thanks.

[zoobie]

Let's start at the start. First, you need to read up on these terms in the glossary at the top left menu. In fact, it's best to take a few hours and read the whole thing. You'll be very glad you did.
Then others can help you once the terms are understood.

[yoda313]

1080i is 1080 interlace.

You need to convert the ts to a mpg and then downconvert to a dvd resolution - 720x576 for pal if I remember correctly (I'm ntsc so I don't know that by heart). But the process is the same whether its pal or ntsc you just have a different finish point.

Use something like projectx to demux (split apart) the audio and video. Then use a mpeg encoder like tmpegnc plus to encode the 1080i m2v video file to a 720x576 pal mpg file (again whatever the actual pal spec is I can't remember precisely). From there use mpeg tools in tmpgenc plus to mux (combine) the audio and video together (you take the new dvd format m2v file and mix together with the original ac3 file from the hdtv recording).

you need to do this with each individual file you have in hdtv format. Once you have all of them into a combined dvd compatible mpg file you have to AUTHOR them. Use a dvd authoring program like tmpgenc dvd author or any number of others and load each newly mixed mpg file into it. From there you create your dvd with a menu and whatever you want. You can then author it and burn it on to a single layer dvd.

You have to use a bitrate calculator to make sure you don't go higher than 4gb in the end result for a single layer burn. Though it sounds like your set of clips isn't very large if each is only a 100mb.


But I also agree with zoobie that you should do some reading on your own too. If you follow my steps you will get a very good looking dvd with digital surround sound - IF THE ORIGINAL HDTV BROADCAST CAME WITH DIGITAL SURROUND SOUND. If the original HDTV broadcast was only STEREO you will only get STEREO when you are done.

If you have more questions please feel free to post them. By the way everything I learned about hdtv processing came from soopafresh here at videohelp - a very knowledgeable forum member

[Baldrick]

Or use hdtvtompeg2 and make one mpg/ts file fom the ts files and then convert it to DVD with ConvertXtodvd or HDTV2DVD.

[vwgolfman]

Guys, thanks for all of your help.
I have joined the .ts files together using TSSplitter and then converted the resulting joined .ts file to DVD format using HDTV2DVD.
However, there is a noticeable (although ever so slight) "stuttering" with the resulting files.

This is nothing to do with burning to DVD as the .VOB files have this too.

It's not exactly stuttering but if there is a smooth scrolling banner going across the screen for example, then this is not scrolling perfectly smoothly. As I say it's hardly noticeable but it IS there.

What is causing this and is there any way (a better method of converting) to avoid this?

I hasten to add that the problem is not apparent whilst viewing the joined .ts file.

Once again, many thanks for any help.

[manono]

Hi-

Is your source PAL or NTSC? Is the DVD you made PAL or NTSC? A poor standards conversion (NTSC2PAL, for example) could easily account for what you see.

[vwgolfman]

Hi manono,
Thanks for your reply.

HDTV2DVD is reporting the source as NTSC.

There don't appear to be any options to convert it so I presume it is creating DVD files in NTSC format.

i.e. no standards conversion is taking place.

[manono]

Hi-

Then perhaps it encoded it as interlaced 29.97fps, rather than performing an IVTC and encoding as progressive 23.976 with pulldown (if from a movie or something else shot on film). This can look very bad on a progressive computer monitor when played through software, where it should look OK when played on your TV set. Or it may have done something very bad; deinterlaced, leaving a duplicate frame every 5th frame. To confirm or disprove, open a vob in something where you can advance a frame at a time. If you open it in VDubMod, scroll to a place with motion. Then advance a frame at a time. In every 5 frame sequence you're likely to see 3 clean progressive frames and 2 interlaced frames. Either that or 4 good frames followed by a duplicate frame. If you were to play the same vob in something like Media Player Classic, where you can also advance a frame at a time, by default it will blend deinterlace. When advancing a frame at a time, you'll see 3 clean clear frames, and 2 blurry blended frames. Or, again, every 5th frame is a repeat frame. When played at full speed, one gives a sort of strobing effect during certain kinds of movement; the other gives a definite stutter during such movement as slow panning shots.

These are just educated guesses, though. To be sure, if you can't figure it out yourself, I or others will have to see small samples of both the source TS and the output VOB. I don't know this HDTV2DVD, and don't know what it does to your TS files. To cut pieces (small pieces of only several seconds each of a motion sequence will be plenty), one way is to use DGIndex and the [ and ] buttons to isolate the small pieces needed. Go File->Save Project and Demux Video. Then upload the M2Vs somewhere.

[vwgolfman]

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