DVD

[swanside]

i HAVE A PIONEER AO3 DVD WRITER, AND I AM A BIT CONFUSED ABOUT HOW TO GET THE DVD'S ONTO IT. DO I RIP THEM AND THEN USE TMPENG TO CONVERT, AND WHAT DO I CONVERT IT TO, VCD OR SVCD, AND CAN I KEEP THE DTS OR DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 ENCODING WITH IT?
THANKS.

[CrazyMck@home]

Hi.

Don't want to seem like a dick head but did you read any of the HOW TO guides... go there first to get the basics and come back with questions -- yes you will have some, I did and still learning.

Good Luck .
Patrick

[swanside]

Hi m8,
Yep, I have read, printed eaten most of the guides, and still confused about mpeg1, mpeg2 and vcd, svcd.
I have tried a few different ways, with tomb raider which I was surprised at the results, with two cd's and a very good quality video, but not in Dolby digital. Maybe I am being too fussy, but, after paying out £1500 on a tele, £200 on a DVD £50 on a Sub Bass woofer and £400 on a DVD writer, all I want is Dolby Digital 5.1?
If you find the answer, could you please let me know, and like wise, if I find the answer, I will tell you, as wellas everybody else.
regards
Paul.

[Kdiddy]

Well in the "WHAT IS" section to your left. You would have discovered that VCD/SVCD does not support Dolby Digital. Only mpeg audio...only way to get that is through the use of miniDVD. Very few players support this format however.

[CrazyMck@home]

swanside

Your getting futher Then. I could't even get Tombraider ripped let alone burned.

Patrick

[Greg12]

i had no probs with tomb radier n dvd decrypter.


Actually, their is a DVD demuxing program that will rup apart a vob file and leave you with the audio and video.

Mux them back into an MPEG 2 file n feed it into the DVD Authoring software.

Wala, no loss of quality.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Greg12 on 2001-12-29 18:59:11 ]</font>

[mikerios]

Greg,

what were your settings for TMPEnc? How long is Tomb Raider? I managed to 1:I Fools Rush In by simply using DVDecrypter and then burning the VOB files in Nero as UDF/ISO image. No reencoding was necessary with TMPEnc as the vob files were under 4.7gb and fit on to a disc, was a bit surprised by that, but HEAT however has been my current challange as it 172 min long and over 6 gb worth of vob files. Been playing with settings and then reencoding , each time noting the settings and seeing the end results, the goal of course is to try to make it fit on to one 4.7Gb DVD disc.

[Kdiddy]

You will lose chapter points this way...but a proven methods are floating around here.

http://rilanparty.com/vbb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=39

[mikerios]

true you lose chapter points, but then I am looking for simple autoplay dvd . no menu or nothing. but you can always go thru the process and rip / reencode and add you own chapter points.

[mijman]

I think that the 5.1 audio and the normal audio are on two seperate tracks, and you simply ripped the wrong one. Since you are authoring a DVD, though, you might as well include them all. You could rip the vobs of just the movie and stick them into a folder called video_ts. Then burn with MyDVD or Nero (in the "CDROM (UDF/ISO)" option, all the way at the end)
No demuxing (but, BTW Greg12, what is that program you were referring to called?) necessary, and you OUGHT to have all the stuff you need to play the movie. The extras will probably not fit on the same disc.
As for Heat, you'll likely have to split them, or make it a DVD of VCD quality video.

[swanside]

mijman,
What is the best way to get a DVD on to a DVD-r.
Most of the DVD's I have seen are around 6-7 gb and wont fit onto a 4.7gb disc.
I have ripped and gone through dvd2avi and then tmpeng and put them onto a CD-r as an mpeg, but some of the scenes are jumpy.

[mijman]

The problem is, that commercial DVD's frequently use dual layer discs, (which is essentially, double density) so they are quite capable of holding 9GB+ of stuff on them. Dual Layer discs aren't currently possible for DVD-R.
Also make sure that your settings match the original DVD (like framerate, and aspect ratios)
If, for example, you take your DVD file which was encoded at 16:9, and encode it with TMPGenc to "normal" 4:3 screen aspects, then reburn it to DVDR, then you are adding black bars to your video, increasing its filesize. If you take a 24fps file and encode it to 29.97fps and reencode it, you also add considerable size to the file.
The ideal method is to not have to re-encode at all. If one had a program like the one Greg12 was describing, that would just take a vob and seperate it into a mpg and wav(s), but not re-encode.
I have not "made a backup" of tomb raider, but I think that it should fit. DVDRs can hold about 2:10 of movie, and I think the movie just fits. (but, I could be wrong)
I would probably make a DVD of the movie itself, and a VCD of the bonus features.

[swanside]

I made the backup of Tomb Raider which fits on two Cd's without any problem. I think it was beginners luck, but I have a DVD of O Brother, which I want a copy for myself, but for some reason, it wont work.
I made the tomb raider before I got the DVD burner. If you know of any good FTP sites, I will upload it for others to download. It is in two files each about 400megs.
The other thing is, in TMPEng, when I select DVD from the Load buttons and pres start, it tells me about incorrect frAME sizes?
Any ideas on that?
Ta.