Help with DVDit PE

[Flatliner]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a DVD that will play in most DVD players but I am running into some problems. I add them to DVDit and make all my menus but when I go to burn them I get:

Your project contains MPEG video that has illegal parameters for DVD video.

Then basically it tells me it wont work on anything except a DVD-ROM. The files are mpeg VCD's and I get that message when I try to burn them. I also tried reencoding them as DVD NTSC mpegs using TMPGenc and still get the same thing. What I'm asking is, what can I reencode the files as to get them to burn properly?

[thayne]

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but my advice would be dump DVDIt, it has serious issues. I switched to Ulead DVD Workshop and will never look back

[Flatliner]

Well I tried Ulead Movie Factory and I kept getting very blocky/pixelated pictures. Does DVD Workshop fix that?

[nkuperw]

It sound's like your tyring to take a VCD resolution image and make a DVD resolution image, and DVDit won't let you, but Ulead is doing the "stretching" and that's why you're getting the pixelated picture.

[Flatliner]

Is there any way to convert them to DVD resolution without getting the pixelation?

[Dennis1968]

I can not understand what the problem is? DVDit allows you to use 352x240 MPEG-1 (VCD) video. the only thing your have to change on it is the Audio track sampling. from 44.1K to 48K. i have made many DVDs of complied VCDs, the only advantage is 1 '6 hour play' disc versus 6 VCDs at 1 hour each. As for pixilation, the rule of thumb is "Garbage In is Garbage Out". you can not get a 720x480 native resolution out of a 352x240 native resolution. I have complied many VCDs into a long playing DVD. the veiwing resolution you get while watching a VCD on a TV is "blown up" to 2X. Another pixilation problem appears when you convert a 320x240 to 352x240. You have to add a border to keep the pixel in there aspect ration. Learned with many non 352x240 video sources (320x240, 352x288, 320x200, etc). Also with DVDit, all the video files you use must the same external resolution and most important, the Internal hidden Headers. you have to you the same exact profile in TMPGEnc for all your video, and all the audio must be identical as well. same bitrate, same sampling rate, even the same codec used to crate them.

DVDit is Good for me but is very picky when it start to build the project. I still swear by it.