Does MyDVD 4.5 re-encode compliant MPEG video/audio?

[n6nfg]

I am asking this for my Dad. He has MyDVD 4.5 OEM that came with his burner (purchased from the sony website, I think model DRU- 510). Sony support claims this program will only produce video that is a maximum of 1 1/4 hours long. I don't doubt that if you use this program to capture/encode/author that this maximum is true.

The question is: If he captures a 2 hour movie using ATI MMC with settings appropriate to MPEG compliant caputres that will have a small enough file size, will MyDVD 4.5 accept this video and author it without re-encoding the video/audio to its one-of-three quality choices, which will then blow up the file size so it won't fit anymore?

Thanks for my Dad

[rcb]

You could do a search on MyDVD (see top of this page) and see what other users have said.

Or, just capture a smaller clip of mpeg - note it's playing time and file size - run it thru MyDVD using best quality setting - and see if the resulting file size changes

[masterpug]

here's your exact answers, confirmed:

mydvd biggest two drawbacks are:

1. re-encodes always, unlike ulead dvd movie factory2 which has an option for "don't re-encoded compliant mpg files"

2. does not support any audio file type except uncompressed pcm!!! of course, that's huge file size vs. mpg/mpa/ac3,etc. the program automatically demuxes your "dvd compliant mpg" file that you've loaded and proceeds to re-encode the video AND convert the audio to PCM, then muxes video/audio elemetary streams back to one file and burns. the result is much larger than your original mostly due to the audio conversion, which is why you'll always get less data on a disc authored w/mydvd. other than tha, great simple program for motion menus, slideshows with time matched audio, etc. hope that helps!

[n6nfg]

masterpug:

Thanks for the answer. It wasn't the one I wanted, but it was the one I was expecting!