TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6...

[acid_burn]

Hey everyone,

I'm using this program to Author my dvds and just wanting to make sure... does this version what so ever -re-encode any part of your videos? I'm really paranoid about this stuff... I don't want too loose any quality and I'm just making sure, cuz someone said the NEW versions do it as well, and I'm hearing the 2x and up versions have this new transcode system in them...

Also all I do is add already made dvd files and just re-Author the chapters and add a menu, should I worry??

Version: 1.6.26.73

[rkr1958]

I'm running with version 1.6.34.90. Version 1. 6 DOES NOT transcode or re-encode source video. You must provide it with what it considers a compliant video stream.

I have the ac3 audio plugin. If enable PCM and / or MPEG audio will be re-encoded to ac3. However, you can choose whether or not you want you audio re-encoded.

[TBoneit]

AFAIK TDA 1.5 and TDA 1.6 can not do encoding. That is why I keep TDA 1.5 as well as TDA 3 on my system. I can feed no compliant files to 1.5 after using dvdpatcher on them then unpatching them after they are added. TDA I believ only added support for dual layer discs.

[acid_burn]

Hey again, i just tried it with a 760mb vob file.. and its created the chapters and menu fine, and there doesn't seem to be any loss of video quality just a loss of 2mb... so now the file size is 758mb... why is that?

Wouldn't the file size get bigger when adding chapters and not smaller :S please help..
PS - i didn't re-encode the audio stream or nothing just adding chapters and a menu

[rkr1958]

A VOB file is a container, which contains your video (e.g., MPEG2) and audio. By importing a VOB into TDA it's basically repackaging the contents of the VOB (e.g., MPEG2 & audio) into another VOB. The 2-MB difference is just in the noise then.

By the way TDA 1.6 does not, cannot, transcode or re-encode the video. So your video is definitely being left untouched.