Forty-Two => Can't Import into DVDSP

[timbo22]

I installed v1.0 of forty after it came out. Then I installed the 1.01 and then 1.02 updators. I just ran it on two movies, and in both cases the multi-gigabyte biles.mpv file can't be imported into DVD Studio Pro 1.5. If I try to select import, the file is grayed out. If I try to drag it, DVDSP says:
"ERROR: 23.98 fps is a wrong frame rate. File biles.mpv"

What am i doing wrong here?

[pants]

on all the dvd's i'vet tried i get this too w/dsp. i can author it in sizzle but when played on my set top dvd player it plays jerky and the audio shreeks. so not sure what's up. i don't know how to get them into dsp, i'm using the latest 42, too.

[Wiqd]

Everything seems to work fine for me. I don't know what you guys are doing different. I know I rip out the m2v and ac3 with OSeX so I can calculate bit rate with Transcoder (does a fabulous job) set the VBR in 42 to like 3 or 4 (mostly 3) then jus let 42 do its thing. Then I drag the .mpv file along with the ac3 file to DVDSP and it takes it just fine. No issues on playing any of the DVDs I've done with 42 on any platform yet.

Wiqd

[pants]

have any of your dvds been encoded with 23.97 ntsc?

[AntnyMD]

Locate a program called PulldownX and run your biles.mpv file through it to add 3:2 pulldown flags. It should import into DVD Studio Pro after that, as long as the file otherwise meets DVD spec.

[pants]

so after using the pulldown to add 3:2, that won't mess up the sync?

[timbo22]

I did as you suggested and ran biles.mpv through PulldownX (default options) and it worked like a charm! Flawlessly imports into DVDSP now. Authored it and burned, perfect audio/video sync!

Thanks a bunch!

[Wiqd]

hrmm I wonder if pulldownX would fix the synch issue from transcoder. By that I mean, if you DONT select the pulldown option, run it through transcoder, then run it through pulldown, if it would insert the frames in the proper places, so the audio / video would actually synch up.

Wiqd

[WiseWeasel]

Woohoo, this is great! Thank you so much for pointing that out, AntnyMD. Now forty-two is perfect for me.

[pants]

so what do you check, how what are the exact settings for pulldown with the 23.98 footage? cause i don't see a specific setting for 3:2, unless i have an old version or something. do i just set frame rate to 29.97 and that's all?

thanks

[DannyZR2]

hmm... i wonder if this is the problem with the jerky playback people are experiencing too...

<from another post>I have a Daewoo DVG-3000N DVD player and every output that I have made with 42 except for a regular VCD is jumpy. I have played SVCD's and DVD-R's made by other people that didn't use 42 just fine.

I don't know what I am doing wrong to cause this.

I am not touching any of the VBR settings of 42. I am just choosing the SVCD option and dragging and dropping.

Any ideas ?

-Squeed

perhaps some peoples DVD players don't do the 32pulldown good enough? or maybe.. i don't know... but i wonder what would happen if the file was ran through pulldownX and the burned (considering he is probably using sizzle or something toher than DVDSP to author the files, since Sizzle apparantly takes the 23.97fps files fine, but DVDSP doesn't?)

Can someone try this? take the file (unpulldowned) and burn with sizzle, then burn the same file (after running through pulldownx) and burning again with sizzle, then playing both discs on their DVD players and see if any of them are jerky--be sure to use a file that is 23.97fps....

I"d do it, but I'm at work... (just getting on shift)

[pants]

well the dvd i made with the 23.98 file with sizzle was jerky on all 3 of my machines, i want to try pulldown but i'm not sure how to set the 3:2 in it? i don't see a 3:2 option, unless i'm just suppose to set it to 29.97. is that the only thing to do?

[timbo22]

All i did in PullDownX was open the mpv file and click start (all the default settings) and it worked like a charm.

[abomb]

All i did in PullDownX was open the mpv file and click start (all the default settings) and it worked like a charm.

I am attempting the same thing... I used PullDownX.. it now imports into DVD Pro, but when I preview it there is no sound. Is there really sound, but because it's not a seperate file you cannot hear it in the preview? Should I just go ahead and burn?

Adam

[Wiqd]

The mpv file won't have sound in DVDSP. I don't know if its encoded and needs on on-the-fly decoder or what. In any case, you need to rip the .ac3 file out with OSEx and use those 2 files to do the dvd in DVDSP.

Wiqd

[KaiCherry]

Wow...seems to me that if ya had the money for dvdsp, and the kinda gear i'm told you need to run it well, that ya' wouldn't need 42 at all.

you could just buy two copies of a dvd and put one away...

-K

[DannyZR2]

good point...

*asking myself.. is it all worth it....*

[DannyZR2]

I'm trying PulldownX and i get this error in the terminal when I click start ..

Unable to open file /Volumes/Multimedia/Jackass for reading.

i got pulldownx v 0.1

is there a new version?

[DannyZR2]

UPDATE:::
make sure there are no spaces in the path of your source file (the.m2v file) and the output folder.. ie, i had mine going to a folder called "Jackass PulldownX output" and it wouldn't work, and the source folder was called "Jackass elem streams" so it wouldn't work either..

i renamed them to Jackass and JackassX and it's going now...