Problem with DVD-R

[gvamp]

*I aplogize if this is in the wrong forum and if so could a MOD move it to the right forum*

I'm having problems with a DVD I burnt, I burn't a subtitled TV show that has embedded subtitles and when I play it on my Widescreen TV the subbs get cut off even after messing around with screen sizes. But when I play it on my DVD player on my PC no problem. I figured it was because I was trying to watch a 4:3 on a 16x9 TV.

So when I took it over to my aunts house it played fine on my cousins TV which was 19" and had a built in DVD Player but when I played it on there 30 something inch TV I had the same problem.

I don't know if it's the software I used to convert it or the media I was using but I'd really like to find out what the problem.

The software I used was ConvertXtoDVD
The media was Imation 8x DVD-R Discs
The original file format was a .avi file in either DivX or XVid I'm not really sure.

Any help on what I can do?

[redwudz]

Sure, the problem is TV overscan. It's a common problem with subtitles. TVs cut off the edges of all video. Computer monitors don't. And it can vary by TV. Most have around 5% cut off, some have more or less. If you look in our subtitle forum, you will see quite a few posts on it. Do a forum search for 'overscan' there and you should find most of them.

Easy cure, move your subtitles up higher. If the subs are already embedded, you can add a black frame around the video and resize the frame to restore it to the proper size. This will require re-encoding, which will cause some quality loss, so you want to do this while doing the original encode. If done properly, you usually won't see the black frame on most TVs.

EDIT: I re-read your post, and since you are using ConvertXToDVD, it does have adjustments for subtitle position. It's in 'Setting>Subtitles>Text subtitles rendering settings'. Course adjustments are in 'Text Align' and fine adjustments are in 'Margin'. Of course these won't work on embedded subs, so you may have to use the 'black frame' method.

[gvamp]

Thanks for the response, I'm currently reconverting the episodes using a program called SUPER. So I'll try this black bar method you suggested before.

Oh I should also mention that the cut off isn't on the left or right but the bottom. It's fine if there is one line of text but if there is a really big dialogue sequence then the entire second line of text is cut off.

[guns1inger]

You can't adjust the subtitles because they are encoded in the video. Have a look at FitCD. It will create an avisynth script that will resize your video correctly, and add borders to force the image, and therefore the subtitles, back inside the overscan area. The latest version of ConvertXtoDVD should be able to process avisynth scripts (you will also have to install avisynth, of course).

[gvamp]

A friend of mine told me to use autogk do you think that'd help?

[guns1inger]

Not really. AutoGK doesn't output mpeg-2, so all you will get is an unnecessary re-encoding of your video. FitCD and Avisynth will solve your problem much more easily.

[gvamp]

Could you give me a guide on how to use the two programs I'm rather a n00b when it comes to this stuff?

[gvamp]

Bump

[guns1inger]

FitCD and how it works : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1487285#1487285

A practical application of this knowledge : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1622800#1622800

[gvamp]

Thanks I'll try that out later this weekend and let you know the result.

It does work with DVDs correct?

If not then I'll just burn it as a VCD because it's pretty good quality.

[FulciLives]

FitCD and how it works : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1487285#1487285

A practical application of this knowledge : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1622800#1622800

Those are excellent links !!!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gvamp]

Okay if my source is 4:3 which option would I choose?

-DVD 720
-DVD 704
-3/4 DVD 544
-3/4 DVD 528
-SVCD
-1/2 DVD
-VCD
-1:1 Monitor
-1:2 Monitor

I'm assuming I can elimanate SVCD and VCD because I obviously want to conver these to DVD. Also how do I use the scripts once they're created? Do I need to get some additional software or what?

[FulciLives]

Okay if my source is 4:3 which option would I choose?

-DVD 720
-DVD 704
-3/4 DVD 544
-3/4 DVD 528
-SVCD
-1/2 DVD
-VCD
-1:1 Monitor
-1:2 Monitor

I'm assuming I can elimanate SVCD and VCD because I obviously want to conver these to DVD. Also how do I use the scripts once they're created? Do I need to get some additional software or what?

For a DVD you want to use DVD 720 on the right hand side. If the source is an AVI file and is a MPEG-4 AVI file (please note AVI can be MPEG-4 among many other things) then you set the left hand side to 1:1 Monitor

For BLOCKS OVERSCAN try 2 or 3 with 3 being the most compensation for TV OVERSCAN and 0 being no compensation for TV OVERSCAN. My guess is the 2 or 3 setting is what you want. This is assuming the subtitles are already burned into the image.

In the end you will get something like this (note my source in the example below is a MPEG-4 at a 4:3 ratio of 640x480):



Now just open the AVS script into HCenc and follow my guide.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gvamp]

Sorry for the late response I've been busy with college courses

Thanks again

[gvamp]

Sorry for the late response again but could you point me to your guide FulciLives. I can't find it any where

[FulciLives]

Sorry for the late response again but could you point me to your guide FulciLives. I can't find it any where

As posted earlier in this very thread:

FitCD and how it works : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1487285#1487285

A practical application of this knowledge : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1622800#1622800

That should be all the info you need. However if you have more questions then ask away!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gvamp]

How would I use the bitrate Calculator if I'm going to be putting six episodes on the DVD do I do it for each indvidual episode? Or for the tracks part do I put six?

[FulciLives]

How would I use the bitrate Calculator if I'm going to be putting six episodes on the DVD do I do it for each indvidual episode? Or for the tracks part do I put six?

Simply add up the running times. If each of the 6 files is exactly 22 minutes long then you would get 132 minutes total.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gvamp]

Then do I convert them individually?

[FulciLives]

Then do I convert them individually?

Yes.

You convert them individually but using the bitrate settings of the whole since you intend to put them all onto a single DVD disc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gvamp]

Okay thanks again for the help I decided to expeirment that way.

[gvamp]

Well I ran the first episode of the show through DVDAuthorGUI and got this error:

DVDAuthorGUI 1.010c - 1/21/2007
Send problems with DVDAuthorGUI to liquid_217@hotmail.com
A subdirectory or file C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Ultraman Nexus DVD\Ultraman Nexus One\title1.mpg already exists.
***please wait while the titles are multiplexed.
*multiplexing title: 1.....
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Video Editing\NexusVideo\nexus1.m2v.pulldown.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Video Editing\NexusAudio\Nexus1.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Video Editing\NexusVideo\nexus1.m2v.pulldown.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 480
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 9537200 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Video Editing\NexusAudio\Nexus1.ac3)
INFO: [???] AC3 frame size = 1024

INFO: [???] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 32768 bytes/sec (256 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
**ERROR: [???] Could not open for writing: C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Ultraman Nexus DVD\Ultraman Nexus One\title1.mpg\title1.mpg

Process aborted due to above error
There was an unknown error. Please review the log for more information.

Any idea on what I did wrong?

[FulciLives]

Did you run out of HDD space?

I think you need at least 9GB free (if not more) when using DVDAuthorGUI even though you are only creating a single layer DVD Video disc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gvamp]

Nope I still have 60+ gigs left on this partition

[FulciLives]

Well I don't know what's wrong. Maybe someone else can chime in with something.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gvamp]

Well I'm just going do everything from the beginning, it's going to take me awhile to get those six episodes burnt. Maybe I'll just buy TMPGEc would the guide be the same then?

[liquid217]

A subdirectory or file C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Ultraman Nexus DVD\Ultraman Nexus One\title1.mpg already exists.

You probably need to delete the output folder before authoring again. It will not automatically delete the folder.

[gvamp]

In the HCenc step would I change my aspect ratio to 4:3 because I'm doing a 4:3 program?

[gvamp]

A subdirectory or file C:\Documents and Settings\Tom R VanSlambrouck\Desktop\Ultraman Nexus DVD\Ultraman Nexus One\title1.mpg already exists.

You probably need to delete the output folder before authoring again. It will not automatically delete the folder.

I get an error when I delete the output folder. I should also note that the file isn't a XviD

[FulciLives]

In the HCenc step would I change my aspect ratio to 4:3 because I'm doing a 4:3 program?

Yes.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman