Size problem with Sonic DVD Producer

[fyreboltx3]

Hey guys, I'm having a problem with Sonic DVD Producer that I thought you might be able to help me with.

I encoded some videos using TMPGEnc (system video+audio file- 720x480 @ 2000kbit/s CBR MPEG2, Mpeg Layer II audio @ 160kbps, 48KHz). I import the video fine and I get a seperate video icon and audio icon. It plays fine on the PC. Each file is at about 800MB.

When I add the video to the playlist, there is no audio (after it's burned on to a DVD+R). So I try again but this time, I manually add in the audio track icon for the video (in the timeline area). But when I do this, the audio file takes up another 500MB of space!

I tried Demultiplexing the file into seperate audio and video files but even then, it takes up more space than it should.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated!

[Baldrick]

No audio on your pc or standalone dvdplayer when you use the burned dvd? some players need some changes to get mpeg audio.

And the audio is probably converted to pcm when you manually add it, around 10MB/minute.

I would get an ac3 encoder and convert to ac3.

[non-linear]

720x480 @ 2000kbit/s CBR MPEG2

I know this is irrelevant to your situation, but what are you thinking encoding your video at that resolution and bitrate? For 2000Kbps, you'd be better off using 352x240 (even at 352x480, it'd be crap).

As to your situation, do as Baldrick suggested, try encoding the audio as AC3; I recommend using ffmpeggui, since it's fast and free.

[jman98]

In the past, I would have agreed with non-linear's comments. However, a guy sent me an SVCD sample that he had from some guy who had a "secret" process for converting DVDs to single disc SVCDs. It sounded absolutely crazy to me, so I took a look at the sample and examined it. I'm working from memory here, but it used VBR and it had normal GOPs. The guy who made would say only that he ran it through CCE to encode it and used something like 9 passes on it. While it wasn't as good as the orignal DVD, it really was pretty good and much better than it should have been. So given the right tools, I do think you could get good quality video out of a 2000 Kbps encode, although VBR and a lower resolution would help. The range on the encoding was crazy where it had lows of about 600 Kbps and highs around 2500, but it really did look pretty good.

[fyreboltx3]

720x480 @ 2000kbit/s CBR MPEG2

I know this is irrelevant to your situation, but what are you thinking encoding your video at that resolution and bitrate? For 2000Kbps, you'd be better off using 352x240 (even at 352x480, it'd be crap).

As to your situation, do as Baldrick suggested, try encoding the audio as AC3; I recommend using ffmpeggui, since it's fast and free.

Yeah, that's probably not a good idea... but I didn't think that DVD were compatible with anything lower than 640x480. Guess I was wrong.

The reason I used MP2 was because of size constraints. I avoided PCM because high file size (the audio ended up being twice the size of the video I think).

Thanks guys.

[fyreboltx3]

Hi guys, sorry for posting again... but there's still the size problem.

Sonic DVD can read both the .m2v and .ac3 files fine when I add them, a 700MB video file shows takes up more than 2GB of space!

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? I did reencode the video files with a lower resolution (360x240).