Movie craps out after converting MPEG2 to DVD with TMPGEnc

[briandugas]

I recorded a movie off of TV using my ATI All-in-Wonder capture card. I recorded it as an MPEG2 352x480 4.0MB/s clip. The video plays fine, and looks great on my computer. I used mpeg-vcr 3.14 to cut out commercials. Video still plays fine. I used TMPGEnc DVD author to prepare the movie for DVD. The resulting movie is very choppy, and will not even play for long. Even on my computer it sucks. I did samples, trying only parts of the 1.75 hour movie. The individual parts had the same problem. Is TMPGEnc causing my problem? I've used similar methods when capturing from VHS, with no problems like this. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
-Brian

[Forum Troll]

Editing the MPEG might be destroying the time code, thus making the file corrupt. You might try editing the file in Virtualdubmod, then frameserve that result into TMPGENC, and re-encode to MPEG-2.

[edsmith77]

Briandugas,
Why not do the editing within DVD Author. It will allow you to set stop and start points and will only output the others.
MPEG2 has IMHO always been problematic. So I try very very hard to not have to edit (before authoring) my mpeg2 files.
But with DVD Author, I just specify the stop and start points and let it do the rest and it works out just fine.

[briandugas]

I was using Womble MPEG-VCR at the recommendation of someone's website who had success. I thought cutting and splicing an MPEG wasn't considered editing. I've used the TMPGEnc DVD Author to set start and stop points like you were saying, but I found that the control wasn't as precise...not down to the frame. But, if that works, it sure beats my method. I'll sacrifice a few frames. Thanks for the suggestions.
-Brian

[edsmith77]

BrianDugas,
Oops. If you really needed "to the frame" accuracy, then my suggestion will not provide that level of detail. Beyond that it does do a pretty good job. Especially if you need cut out commercials, credits, etc. I use it mainly to cut out the commercials from TV shows so that I get 20 minute video from a 1 hr program.
I believe there are programs out there that may do "to the frame" editing of mpeg2 files but of those I have tried none have worked very well for me. I seem to end up with audio / videon synchroniztion problems if I try to do more that a couple of seconds of editing. On the other hand others here have reported success in that area. Maybe they will chime in.