Pioneer DVR-A03 and MyDVD Issue

[fjpenney]

I recorded video from a camcorder using an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV using MPEG2 compresion. I am using MyDVD v2.3 which came with the DVR-A03. I set up MyDVD to burn the video onto a DVD-R. After demuxing and preparing the audio file I get the error message "Data exceeded multiplexable bit rate". I reduced the bit rate from High (8Mbps) to Normal/High (6.5Mbps) but still received the same error message.

The video file is 4.03GB and I am using a Pioneer DVD-R (4.7GB).

I would appreciate any suggestions as well as suggested sites which would help a newbie looking for help with the DVR-A03 and MyDVD.

Thanks.

[bugster]

MyDVD complains if the Max bitrate of the video alone is greater than 8Mbps but my version allows you to continue the burn after this message has appeared, at your own risk, I guess yours is the same. I have done this with no problems. Reducing the bit rate within MyDvd will have no effect on the original video and MyDvd will not transcode if the original is already Mpeg2. One problem you may have is space. You say your source video is a 4Gig mpeg2 file. If this contains Mpeg2 Audio, MyDvd will strip this out of the file and re-encode it to PCM which is uncompressed, greatly increasing the file size and probably making the image too large for the disk. The only thing you can do about this is re-encode the movie at a lower bitrate (thus solving your 1st problem as well) or split the movie across 2 discs.
Hope this helps

[emtownsend]

Have you found the quality to be poor with MyDVD? Maybe I rushed through without configuring it for optimal picture quality, but when I recorded from my DV camcorder to MyDVD and out again to a DVD, it looked terrible... Any tricks you found? Is there any reason why I shouldn't be able to have DV quality transferred over to DVD?
Thank you!
Eric Townsend

[fjpenney]

I have had the DVR-A03 for almost a week now and I still haven't been able to burn a DVD-R. I am working with TMPGENC to reduce the bitrate of the video file captured with the ATI All-In-Wonder. It appears that this will solve my bitrate problem. However, I can't say yet if the video quality is going to be as good as I would like to see it. I'll give you an update in two or three days.