author a dvd with over 7 hrs of footage?????

[gears429]

my friend recently acquired a DVDr with over 7 hours of cartoons on the one disc, he tried to find out what program had been used but could get no info. Please could you help me work out how to author a DVD with so much footage on the one discs

[Bodysurf]

my friend recently acquired a DVDr with over 7 hours of cartoons on the one disc, he tried to find out what program had been used but could get no info. Please could you help me work out how to author a DVD with so much footage on the one discs

A valid DVD-Video using CBR MPEG-1 video of 1150Kb/s and Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio of 192Kb/s would allow around 450 (7 1/2 hours) minutes of playing time.

The quality would be almost identical to VideoCD.

[gears429]

hi mate, this is probably really dumb but how to i encode that and then author that.

I dont mind about the quilty being about videoCD, the source material isnt all that great to begin with

[Bodysurf]

hi mate, this is probably really dumb but how to i encode that and then author that.

I dont mind about the quilty being about videoCD, the source material isnt all that great to begin with

Read the HOW-TOs on the left, particularly those dealing with AUTHORing and CONVERTing.

Additionally, the GUIDES and newbie ARTICLES are very helpful.

[Thomas Davie]

Taje this with a grain of salt, since I'm not an expert, but I've got 2 methods, and it depends on whether or not I'm talking about recoring to my All In Wonder card, or to my set top DVD recorder.

ATI Method: In MMC, make a new mpeg-2 preset with the following characteristics. VBR, selected target rate 1.15 mbps (peak of 2 mbps), and 48khz 128 kbps audio. Record, edit out commercials with mpeg-vcr, and then author with Ulead DVD Moviefactory 2 (I suppose 3 might work, but haven't tried it yet), making sure that 'do not convert compliant videos' is selected, and that yuou set your quality to high (1 hour). The latter is very important in order to avoid re-encoding I find, because of course, MF2 can't re-encode your 6 hours of material to fit on one DVD at the 1 hour quality bit rate! Create your menus and test burn on a DVD+RW if you want.

Set top method: Even easier. Set your recording length for 6 hours. Record, and then rip your DVD to your computer. Use mpeg-vcr to edit out commercials. Repeat as above.

It works for me

The key is to have compliant material, and to have an editor that doesn't screw up synching.

Tom

[duhmez]

cOUPLE WAYS.

1) eNCODE VIDEO USING VCD TEMPLATE.
encode audio using ffmpeggui

Import into your favorite authroing package tmpgenc dvd author for example
burn.

2) Encode mpeg 2 352,240 2 pass vbr, average 1150 max 2000 min 500
Encode audio with ffmpeggui
Import into your favorite authroing package tmpgenc dvd author for example
burn.

3) Start with a standard vcd template, copy t, and change the audio samples to 48000. Ffor your capture, edit out comercials with womble mpegvcr or tmpgenc. Author with nonstandard mpeg audio (which the vcd template will use), works most of the time Make sure to run the vid throug tmpgenc merge and cut one time; it will ensiure the video has valid sequence header for each gop.