Lossed frames after Ulead DVD Workshop Conversion

[matd]

Hi,

I'm really happy using Ulead's DVD Workshop 1.3, but for some reason i can't capture DVD ready video as i get an error when i try and capture using the WDW driver for my Avermedia TV 203 card, but this isn't crucial.....

So i capture video using the VCR function of the AverTV software, which allows me to capture video at 720 X 576, Video Bit Rate of 6400 KBits/s, Sample Rate to 44.1Khz and Audio Bit Rate of 224KBits/s - all of these can be user defined.

For a cheap PCI TV Card this captures great quality flawless video and audio

But, i would have assumed that such a high capture spec would make a DVD compliant file, but DVD Workshop seems to think not so it goes off and re-encodes the video etc....

The outcome is great but at various points it seems to have dropped some frames, ie for a second or 2 the previous frame is shown and playback continues normally and most imporantly the video and audio remain in sync.

If i check the original captured video these flaws are not there.

What i'd like to know is how to prevent this or what settings i should use in my capture software so that DVD Workshop doesn't need to re-encode the video.

Any help greatly appreciated

[Craig Tucker]

The audio sample rate needs to be 48KHz for it to be DVD compliant.

[matd]

What about fps - should this be set to 25fps or 29.5fps?

[Craig Tucker]

If you are in a PAL region 720x576 @ 25fps
If you are in an NTSC region 720x480 @ 29.97fps

Also make sure you have the box ticked that says something like, do not reencode if DVD compliant.

[matd]

Great, thanks Craig

[Nolonemo]

Aren't you capturing to .avi? In that case you have to encode to .mpg before you have a compliant DVD file. You can encode either outside of DVD WS (using TMPGEnc or other encoder) in which DVD WS will not re-encode (if you check the option), or inside DVD WS as you are presently doing.

[matd]

No, i'm capturing mpeg2 from within the VCR option of my AverMedia TV Sutdio software.

For some reason i get an error when i try and capture from within DWS - maybe it doesn't like the WDW driver?...

I'm trying a capture of 720 X 576 at 25fps, 48Khz and hopefully DWS won't try and re-encode that despite the fact that i've told it not to