Short DVD so ..No compression?

[greglock]

Dear All,

I have a 6min video file to put on DVD.

I am using DVD studio pro and whatever the bitrate or other settings I apply the MPEG compression alters the video sufficiently that I cannot use it, because it looks so bad.

So can I get the video to play on DVD without compressing it? OR is their a compression utility that puts the video file into the correct format but does not mess up my pixels?

The video has lots of black around subtle white lines, The lines look like a bad JPG after the software has compressed the file...

So recap:
I need to put a video file on a dvd so it will playback OK on a commercial deck without heavy MPEG compression...

Any help would be appreciated.

[lacywest]

Are you using this program because you have an Apple computer ??

[jimmalenko]

What type of file (AVI/MPEG) ?
What codec ?
What frame size ?
What bitrate ?
Any sound ?

[FulciLives]

I'm not familiar with the program you are using but a general rule of thumb for MPEG-2 DVD spec is as follows:

Since this is such a short clip I would do one of two things.

Use PCM WAV audio. In which case do a CBR 7500kbps MPEG-2 encode for the video.

use 2.0 AC-3 audio with a bitrate of 256kbps. In which case do a CBR 8000kbps MPEG-2 encode for the video.

That's about as high as you can go more-or-less with the MPEG-2 DVD spec.

Do that and it should look damn good.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[greglock]

Thanks for the replies!

Since the post I used TMPG encoder and have a reasonable file (there is no audio BTW)

It is a
*.m2v file - how do burn this as a DVD?. My Apple has the DVD burner, I have great burning software but the mac is so Mac-centric that I am not sure how to proceed. Using DVD studio-pro the DVD compilation procedure makes a folder called VIDEO_TS which contains*.VBO files and all-sorts. I obviously wish to avoid this software bacause of the nasty mpeg2 compression.

In another forum someone suggested that a new DVD player can play an AVI file anyway, so I can burn as an ISO 9660,

Can this be true?

Thanks Again.

[lacywest]

The reason for no audio is because there isnt any audio in a m2v file

Check your settings ... I believe you want system settings.

Someone who uses TMPGEnc-2.521.58.169-Plus or the other versions will be able to help you.

[jimmalenko]

The reason for no audio is because there isnt any audio in a m2v file

Check your settings ... I believe you want system settings.

You would be right
Instead of ES (Video), select either ES(Video+Audio) or System(Video+Audio), the difference being the first one will give you Elementary Streams (a M2V for video and a stream for audio) while the second one will merge these streams and give you a MPEG-2 file with video and audio ready to be authored.