seamless DVDRs/SVCDs using MyDVD packaged with HP DVD100i?

[average joe]

Happy 2002.

DVD question, can also apply to SVCDs, but using NERO.

I sprung and bought myself the HP DVD writer...only problem is that I am ripping from a Region2 (I am Region1), and I want to burn the tracks 'seamlessly' like an audio CDR on disc-at-once/a live cd that one track flows into the next, no pause or hiccup. MyDVD software wants you to create a 'menu' screen and clik on a thumbnail on that menu to activate that video...i have tried to get disable that menu function and create a 'disc-at-once-dvdr' for lack of a better term. Each time you start the HP DVD authoring suite, it defaults to 'create a menu', and you cannot knock it down...totally sucks...unless there is someone on here that can suggest a way around the 'create menu'..I really do not want to buy additional software, I feel they should've package an authoring suite with a 'no-menu' option.

Anyone have a suggestion?

SVCD-NERO 5.5 aspect of this, by creating a non-compliant SVCD in 720x480, my stand-alone will take it (BTW very nice!), or in VCD/SVCD 480 compliant mode, if I select '0' seconds as the pause between tracks, and disc-at-once option, how come it still hiccups between tracks? Could it be my player, or do any of you have the same problem...It may be my player, because I have even used scandata.dat and FF/REW does not work.. the player goes back to the beginning of the track, the track time is all messed up and it loops the first couple of seconds of the video, instead of FF/REW..very strange.

Anyone have this problem too? Thanks.

PS..my last posts got no response at all! I thought I showered this morning...hmm..

[rphunt]

I'm not clear what you're looking to do. Make an SVCD or DVD? If a DVD, each video has to be a separate menu item. To have it run continuously, you need to merge the videos into one video using an editing app, then define chapterpoints using the authoring software. But, MyDVD is a VERY BASIC app, and only allows creating chapter points on video it has captured itself.

[average joe]

Thanks for the reply, here is the situation EXACTLY...

Step 1..take old VHS video of my band into DV Hollywood Bridge, record as long AVIs

Step 2..place them into Premiere timeline for editing further

Step 3...take the timeline and place a cut for each song performance

Step 4...burn each cut passage as its own MPEG2 for authoring

...now here is where I need help...

I need to find authoring software that will burn these clips in order, so it appears as one long performance (no breaks), but yet the chapters change like tracks do on a 'live performance' audio CD...

about my SVCD problem, scandata.DAT does not work for FF/REW..is this my player that does not recognize the function? (I placed it in EXT folder Nero)

Thanks

[Lamont Cranston]

With DVDs multiple mpeg 2 files will never play seamlessly. If you want the segments to play seamlessly then you need to make 1 mpeg 2 file. If you can live with a delay where the image pauses for a second or two, about the same as when a conventional DVD switches layers, at the beginning of each mpeg 2 file you can author and burn the DVD with Ulead's DVD MovieFactory. I don't believe MyDVD can handle multiple segments. With DVDMF add each segment in the order you want them and make your menu. When you hit the play button on the menu it will play all the segments with a a second or two pause at the beginning of each segment. This is how I get around the fat 32 4G file size to make a 4.7G DVD. I hope this helps.

BTW Sonic's MYDVD and DVDITs, with the exception of PE, transcode the audio to PCM which increases the mpeg 2 file size and limits the video data rate to 8000 mbps. Primitive.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Lamont Cranston on 2002-01-04 21:05:32 ]</font>

[Greg12]

N it would seem u would need to go the NTFS route to get a mpeg file big enough for a DVD-R.


YOu did patch the IFO file to Region 0 right.

If u didn't, u have wasted $10

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Greg12 on 2002-01-04 22:01:21 ]</font>

[mijman]

Hmm...Greg, what did you mean by patching the IFO to region 0? The program defaults to region 1, and the IFO can be edited somehow?

rphunt, MyDVD allowed me to make chapter points on a movie I imported to it for authoring, if that's what you mean. It did not capture anything.

The MyDVD that came with the HP must work differently than the one that comes with the pioneer. Mine doesn't have a default menu-bullshit-thingie. If you just stick your SINGLE mpg (multiplexed) in the first play slot, use no menu, and add your chapters, you should be good to go.

[rphunt]

To Lamont, thankyou. I had a feeling that was why MyDVD only created 60 min. DVDs.

mijman, I'm surpised it lets you do that. Then again, I got fed up and stopped using it pretty quickly when I got ULead DVDMF.

[alkieman]

Actualy lamont, not strictly true.

Mutliple MPEG2

[alkieman]

DAMN, PRESSED ENTER TOO SOON, always doing that.

Anyway, budget DVD authoring packages can't do seamless playback of multiple MPEG2 files but authoring packages designed for professional use do. This feature is called End Actions. On professional authoring packages you set an End Action on the first MPEG telling it to play the second and so on. At the end of the final MPEG you set an End Action telling the DVD player to return to the menu.

MyDVD does NOT support End Actions and neither does Spruce Up, Uleads DVD offerings, MGI Videowave 5, Pinnacle DVD Express or any of the other budget offerings.

DVDit full version does, as does DVD Virtuoso from Spruce (Apple now) and others. I have DVD Virtuoso and it works flawlessly with seamless playback of multiple MPEG files.
Incidently, this does only work with DVD VCD and SVCD WILL pause between tracks.

Opps, my apologies Lamont, just re read and realised thats what you were on about.

[skyocean28]

Can anyone be nice to tell me where i can get dvd!it?
thanks so much

[djtrixx]

www.dvdit.com , there is a demo available for dvdit pe......
(I'd hate to see you waste your $$$$$)

[skyocean28]

the link is stop. would you send me one?
thanks

[Greg12]

i use dvd decyrpter to rip dvd's n it has an option of patching the file to remove the region,

never got it to work.