HDTV capture to DVD

[Soarer]

Hi all,

Just after some help, as I'm quite new to HD streams. I would like to burn something I've recorded onto DVD, and can't find a successful way of doing it.

Here is the scenario:

- Captured a HD stream using my Nebula DigiTV card (and Nebula software v3.201)
- Trimmed stream with MPEG-VCR v3.14 to remove unwanted parts

I am left with a single .MPG file which plays fine with Media Player.

When I try to use DVD creation software (Sony DVD Architect 3, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3) it fails on the audio stream. I believe the stream is AC3.

Here is a screenshot of the video specs according to Media Player:


Is anyone able to point me in the right direction on how I can burn this program to DVD?

Thanks.

[FulciLives]

If you want to make a DVD Video disc then it needs to be DVD compliant.

The 25fps suggests PAL so a PAL DVD can be 720x576 in resolution. Nothing "larger" than that (such as 1440x1080) is acceptable.

To re-encode it you will need a MPEG encoder such as AviSynth and CCE or TMPGEnc Plus or Mainconcept MPEG encoder etc.

The audio should be fine as it appears to be DVD compliant.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
You might want to take a look at HDTV2DVD or HDTVtoMPEG2

[Soarer]

Thanks John,

I've tried TMPGEnc and both HDTV2DVD and HDTV2MPEG2. They all throw errors in regard to the audio stream (none of them recognise it).
I thought that AC3 was very compliant to DVD standards, but neither of the DVD authoring packages I've tried recognises the stream and refuses to write it to DVD.

I'm stumped!

[FulciLives]

Thanks John,

I've tried TMPGEnc and both HDTV2DVD and HDTV2MPEG2. They all throw errors in regard to the audio stream (none of them recognise it).
I thought that AC3 was very compliant to DVD standards, but neither of the DVD authoring packages I've tried recognises the stream and refuses to write it to DVD.

I'm stumped!

Try to demux using something like MPEG-VCR or DGIndex and run the AC-3 file through AC3Fix and see if that helps at all.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Soarer]

Thanks John,

I demuxed and used AC3Fix... all is well and good now. I appreciate the assistance very much.

[FulciLives]

Thanks John,

I demuxed and used AC3Fix... all is well and good now. I appreciate the assistance very much.

I am glad that you got it to work

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Jouko123]

If u want u can try to just patch the video to 720x576 and author...it may work..