How to make a DVD suitable on a Home DVDplayer?

[mariscalbra]

Hello,

I followed the steps from the "How to...".
I have an mpeg-movie which I want to encode in Ffmpegx to DVDffmpeg or DVD mpeg2enc.
When this has happened I have no video_ts and audio_ts folders, but an .mpeg.ff.mpv folder an an itunes folder.
I then burn these two folders with Toast 6.1.1 on a DVD. This DVD I can watch at my Mac, but not on the TV, because the DVD-Player says that this DVD is not a suitable one (he only shows "My DVD, without any further data on it), even all formats should be read.
How can I localise these 2 folders, the video_ts and audio_ts folder on my Mac?
If they aren't there, how to do to create them?

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
Raymond

[Case]

If the encoding process would have gone right, you would find:
- Mymovie.mpeg.ff.mpv [file] (video only)
- Mymovie.mpeg.ff.mp2 [file] (audio only)
- Mymovie.mpeg.ff.mpg [file] (video + audio)
- Mymovie.mpeg.ff.mpg.DVD [folder]
and inside that final folder the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders.

As you seem to be missing some, the Process Log ouput () might be helpful in determining what went wrong.

[yetdog]

I too am having the problem w/ the DVD folder not being created. This is my info output:

Tue Jan 3 10:48:49 EST 2006
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/matthewyette/Movies/Sleeper.Cell.S01E01-E10.HDTV/ep2.avi':
Duration: 00:52:40.3, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 929 kb/s
Stream #0.0, 23.98 fps: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, rawvideo, to '/Users/matthewyette/Movies/Sleeper.Cell.S01E01-E10.HDTV/ep2.avi.ff.mpv':
Stream #0.0, nan fps: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-20, 2994 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
video:1153818kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.099658%
bench: utime=1703.169s
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
Input #0, wav, from '/Users/matthewyette/Movies/Sleeper.Cell.S01E01-E10.HDTV/ep2.avi.ff.wav':
Duration: 00:00:00.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1535 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Output #0, ac3, to '/Users/matthewyette/Movies/Sleeper.Cell.S01E01-E10.HDTV/ep2.avi.ff.ac3':
Stream #0.0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
video:0kB audio:2kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%

[Case]

Input #0, wav, from '/Users/matthewyette/Movies/Sleeper.Cell.S01E01-E10.HDTV/ep2.avi.ff.wav':
Duration: 00:00:00.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1535 kb/s
[...]
video:0kB audio:2kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%

Something wrong with your audio. Your audio is recognized as 0 seconds long, which cannot be processed further.

[yetdog]

Case - thank you so much for your reply!

Anyway - are there any tools out there to possibly repair this? Possibly use the ffmpegx tool's tools to fix the AVI file?

[yetdog]

Unfortunately, I ran the fix tool included w/ ffmpegX and it didn't make a difference

[mariscalbra]

Hello,

Well I have now after I encoded the mpeg movie to DVD mpeg2enc with ffmpegx one mpeg.ff.m2v file and one mpeg.ff.wav file. That's all! No Video_ts and Audio_ts folders.

Here is the encoding Process from the beginning:

Encoding started on Wed Jan 4 08:36:40 CET 2006
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2005 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved. Used in ffmpegX under license.
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [yuvscaler] from 720x576, take 720x576+0+0, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] scale to 720x576, 720x576 being displayed, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling uses the RESAMPLE algorithm,
INFO: [yuvscaler] without line switching
INFO: [yuvscaler] without time forwarding
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without luminance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without chrominance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] frame rate: 25.000 fps
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling ratio for width is 1 to 1
INFO: [yuvscaler] and is 1 to 1 for height
INFO: [yuvscaler] Specific downscaling routing number 4
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm PAL
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to /Users/raymondp/Desktop/Movies/Com Amor, Da Russia.mpeg.ff.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 4000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 3 (Quantisation = 3) (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] New Sequence every 9999 Mbytes
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming non-video stream of 0 Kbps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using default unmodified quantization matrices
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for PREDICTION!
INFO: [yuvscaler] End of stream!
INFO: [yuvscaler] Normal exit: end of stream with frame number 133748!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Guesstimated final muxed size = 2269935568
error: could not convert audio track!
Computing levels...
normalize: WAV header not found
normalize: error reading /Users/raymondp/Desktop/Movies/Com Amor, Da Russia.mpeg.ff.wav
ffmpeg version CVS, build 3277056, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
built on Dec 1 2005 03:50:24, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
/Users/raymondp/Desktop/Movies/Com Amor, Da Russia.mpeg.ff.wav: Unknown format

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[Case]

Well I have now after I encoded the mpeg movie to DVD mpeg2enc with ffmpegx one mpeg.ff.m2v file and one mpeg.ff.wav file. That's all! No Video_ts and Audio_ts folders.
[...]
error: could not convert audio track!
/Users/raymondp/Desktop/Movies/Com Amor, Da Russia.mpeg.ff.wav: Unknown format

1/ Is the wav file size > 0 ? A 90 minutes wav should be , I guess, around 990 MB.
2/ Your mpeg filename might cause troubles for the various Unix tools inside ffmpegX. Remove the spaces and the comma, and try again.

[mariscalbra]

Hello,

1) Wav. file is 0 Ko.
2) I will try this and let yo know.

Thanks very much!

[mariscalbra]

Hello,

I tried again and still have only 2 files, the same ones than before:
mpeg.ff.m2v and mpeg.ff.wav, this last one again with 0 Ko.

Here is the encoding process, which lasted about 9 hours:

Encoding started on Thu Jan 5 22:17:14 CET 2006
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
movtoy4m
Copyright 2002-2005 Johan Lindström
All rights reserved. Used in ffmpegX under license.
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [yuvscaler] from 720x576, take 720x576+0+0, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] scale to 720x576, 720x576 being displayed, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling uses the RESAMPLE algorithm,
INFO: [yuvscaler] without line switching
INFO: [yuvscaler] without time forwarding
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without luminance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without chrominance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] frame rate: 25.000 fps
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling ratio for width is 1 to 1
INFO: [yuvscaler] and is 1 to 1 for height
INFO: [yuvscaler] Specific downscaling routing number 4
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm PAL
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to /Users/raymondp/Desktop/Movies/MyDVD.mpeg.ff.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 4000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 3 (Quantisation = 3) (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] New Sequence every 9999 Mbytes
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming non-video stream of 0 Kbps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using default unmodified quantization matrices
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for PREDICTION!
INFO: [yuvscaler] End of stream!
INFO: [yuvscaler] Normal exit: end of stream with frame number 133748!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Guesstimated final muxed size = 2269935568
error: could not convert audio track!
Computing levels...
normalize: WAV header not found
normalize: error reading /Users/raymondp/Desktop/Movies/MyDVD.mpeg.ff.wav
ffmpeg version CVS, build 3277056, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-gpl --disable-vhook --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-a52 --enable-xvid --enable-faac --enable-faad --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-pthreads --enable-x264
built on Dec 1 2005 03:50:24, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
/Users/raymondp/Desktop/Movies/MyDVD.mpeg.ff.wav: Unknown format

[Case]

In the summary tab, in the Source format section, what does it say in the Audio 'screen'?

If it says mp2 or ac3, 48000 Hz, then you could try the Author tool in the Tools tab directly, skipping the encoding, because your source video already seems DVD compliant.

If your audio is DTS (not sure if ffmpegX would recognize that), then I wouldn't know either.

[mariscalbra]

Thank you so far!
It says that it is an mp2 format. I try to skip the audio encoding.
And what about the video_ts and audio_ts folders? Will they appear? Or is there something special to do?

Thanks,
Raymond

[Case]

You didn't mention sampling rate (Hz) and bitrate (kb/s). For DVD, the audio has to be 48000 Hz. Any other sampling rate has to be converted to that. If the audio and the video are within DVD specs, then you won't need to encode at all, saving you much time.

The Author tool will take your mpeg file and 'author' it into DVD structure: a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder. That tool only takes .mpg files, so rename the suffix by deleting the 'e' out of .mpeg. (author.jpg)

[dieselpower]

Did you ever resolve your issue? I'm experiencing the same problem with a 0 byte wav file.

I'm trying to encode my mpeg2 to DVD format using the following file:

mpeg2video, yuv420p, 480x480, 15000 kb/s
mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s

Any thoughts or tips?

[Case]

You could try demuxing your source mpeg, and re-mux the audio with the video from the partial conversion, as DVD.

[dieselpower]

Going to try and encode to DVD and do audio passthrough.