gspot help

[natty]

can someone here just remind me where is video bitrate in gspot on a movie as when I tried to add a .mpeg-2 movie to dvd author pro it said this error also can anyone point to or send a snapshot of gspot and where these things are please many thanks all btw i am using gspot v2.70a

[daamon]

All the video info in GSpot 2.70a is on the right hand side - the top 80%.

* Codec info at the very top.
* Frame info under that.
* Length, number of frames, bitrate (kbps) info under that.
* Resolution and aspect ratio info under that.
* Any resizing needs at the bottom of that pane.

If you go to the GSpot page in the Tools section and click on the screenshot, you'll get this:

https://www.videohelp.com/toolsimages/gspot_115.jpg

It's of v2.60, but essentially the same.

[natty]

so the video bitrate on that snapshot of gspot is 407 kbps then yes and length is 23 mins 5 secs and 705 frames so how do i change the video bitrate as it said in snapshot on my dvd author to 15Mbps showing here as its not kbps but mbps

[daamon]

1 Mbps = 1024 Kbps with 1 Kbps = 1024 bps

Some work on 1000 instead of 1024. Either way, the result is close enough.

That means that your MPEG file is around 104Mbps - which is insane! I'd say that there's something wrong with the file. What is it? Where did you get it / how did you make it?

[Abond]

I believe this is mpeg1 VBR file. You need to use authoring program that would accept non-standart mpegs.

[tinker]

You have to re encode your file. Use Bit rate calculator to find out the bitrate.
https://www.videohelp.com/calc
Maximum bitrate of DVD file (Video+Audio+Subs)should be no more than 10.08Mb
If you use variable bitrate for encoding than safe is not to go over 8Mb because of peeks at fast motion scenes.
Calculator will help.

[natty]

the movie is in .avi format I used Im TOO mpeg encoder to convert to mpeg-2 in this bitrate calc it dont allow for .avi so how do i do this i have placed gspot snap of orig .avi movie before i converted to mpeg-2 with Im TOO mpeg encoder then tried with dvd author to convert to dvd

[tinker]

Your file is DivX (Mpeg4) type. I do not know Im TOO encoder, I am using TMPG Enc for this. But you have to encode to Mpeg2 DVD compliant file, not only to any Mpeg2 file.

[psx_pirate]

You need to re-encode the file .... it does not meet the required specifications of a Pal dvd ... incorrect resolution ... bitrate too high .... it must match the specs listed here

PAL

Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbps* (9800 kbps*) MPEG2 video
Up to 1.856 Mbps (1856 kbps) MPEG1 video
720 x 576 pixels MPEG2 (Called Full-D1)
704 x 576 pixels MPEG2
352 x 576 pixels MPEG2 (Called Half-D1, same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 288 pixels MPEG2
352 x 288 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
25 fps*
16:9 Anamorphic (only supported by 720x576)

Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 kbps
Up to 8 audio tracks containing Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have MPEG-1, DD or PCM Audio.

[daamon]

@ natty: You're wanting to put this movie to a (presumably) single layer DVD, right? Here's some basics and background that will help the info people are giving:

* A DVD disk has a finite amount of storage space.
* In essence, a video DVD is just a load of files that are arranged in a special way such that they're recognised by DVD players and play the DVD and all its contents.
* These files take up storage space.
* The size of the video and audio files are only determined by the bitrate and running time used to encode them to the acceptable formats. The running time of your movie is fixed (1h 36m 29s from the GSpot screenshot) and so you can only change the bitrate to get the right size files so they fit.

Basic steps on what you need to do:

1) Go to the bitrate calculator that tinker gave the link to, and put in the running time. Make sure the DVD type is set to 1 x 4.37Gb (DVD 5).

2) From GSpot, the bitrate of your VBR (Variable BitRate) MP3 audio is 134kbps. So I'd pick an audio bitrate in the calculator of 192 - that's a decent minimum bitrate for either the (valid) AC3 or MP2 audio formats.

3) As the movie is only around 1.5 hours long, you'll get a video bitrate that should be OK to get good results at full DVD resolution - 720 x 576 for PAL land, where you are in the UK.

4) Re-encode the movie with the video at a resolution of 720 x 576 and a bitrate of about 200 less than what came out of the calculator, and the audio at 192kbps (from above) for either AC3 or MP2. The slightly lower bitrate for the video leaves room on the disk for menus etc., as well as a margin for error.

Don't select WAV audio - it'll give huge files (compared to AC3 or MP2) for very little obvious gain in audio quality and therefore leave less room for the video file. Less room = lower bitrate must be used = lower quality.

5) Now author with the new audio and video files and all should be OK.

Good luck!

[natty]

daamon

how did you get to those figures from using that bitrate calc as it put in what you said and at bottom of bitrate calc it says below so how did u work out from 6125kbits/s I dont understand what this kbits/s means






also just did a test with Im TOO mpeg encoder converting as mpeg-2 when I went to put test movie into dvd author I get this error again





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