DV - TMPGEnc - MPEG2 Questions

[ronbo613]

Hello everyone-I have this problem:

"I installed MyDVD that came with the Sony DRU 500A DVD burner, but am having some problems with it.
When I try to add a video clip, produced with Ulead Video Studio 6, I get a "CSS Protection Warning-This version of
Software Cinemaster does not support playback of DVD content that has a kernel debugger enabled." then "MyDVD Illegal Operation
Invalid Page Fault Kernel32.dll at 018f:bff9db3d" Ulead DVD Movie Factory spits out one DVD after another, no problems. Nero also
burns DVDs without incident."

I thought ATI MultiMedia Center, DivX Codecs, Nero or DVD Movie Factory be causing some kind of problems. However, when I encoded the video clips using TMPGEnc, I was able to add MPEG 2 clips to the MyDVD software.
So, I guess what's happening is there is something in the Ulead Video Studio 6 encoding of MPEG 2 that is denied by the MyDVD program. I tried to imitate the TMPGEnc settings with the VS6 movie production template settings, but no go.
What am I missing here? What setting on the Ulead VS6 am I missing. If the field order, data rates and other settings are the same, why will the TMPGEnc clip work, but not the Ulead clip? Is it a proprietary thing?
Also, if I produce a MPEG 2 video clip with Ulead VS6, then re-encode the file with TMPGEnc to MPEG 2, is there a quality loss or some other reason I don't want to re-encode clips?

Any ideas, tips or advice? Thanks again-Ron B

[ronbo613]

I still can't get the MyDVD to work with the motion menus, but as a sideline, I would like to know if I increase the bitrate of an MPEG 2 file with TMPGEnc, will that clip look better on DVD, or same old "junk in, junk out"? This is my first DVD burner, it's working great. The Veritas software that came with the drive has allowed me to back up files to DVD+RW, freeing up disc space for more video files. The Ulead software works all the time. The VS6 and DVD Movie Factory are pretty basic, but they almost always work.