PAL Divx to Source file for PAL DVD in DVDSP2?

[melman101]

Hey all, I've been trying to get this divx to load into my DVDSP2 and compile. It allows it to go in, but then when I try to build the disk I get video bitrate too high. Then I took the divx and re-encoded it into MPEG2 using Quicktime and I still get video bitrate too high. My friend then converted it using TMPGEnc or something on the PC, and that file doesnt even load. Any suggestions on how I could finish up this project? Thanks

Sincerely,
Mel

[AntnyMD]

I think you're getting this message because you're dragging the file into DVDSP and letting it handle how to encode for DVD. When building a DVD from this approach, DVDSP encodes the audio into uncompressed PCM, which uses a great deal of the available bandwith in a DVD stream. To avoid this, you should encode the video and audio separately outside of DVDSP. Use Compressor on your video; export your audio to AIFF (in QuickTime if your audio codec is supported). Then take your AIFF file to A.Pack and convert it to a Dolby Digital stream. Import your new MPEG-2 video file and your AC3 file into DVDSP and author. The error should be gone.

Do some research in other threads to learn how to resolve sync issues from DivX files -- because 9 times out of 10, you're going to have sync issues.