Video Framerate problem with HDTV TS

[cpt97m3]

I purchased SVCD2DVD to burn DVD's from MPEG2 TS files downloaded from a Motorola 6412 cable box through firewire, in both SD and HD. The SD videos work fine. The HD TS files do create a very nice looking DVD. The problem I have is that when I try to preview them inside SVCD2DVD, the framerate is very low. If I ignore that, and burn the DVD, the framerate is fine.

These TS files play fine with VLC and Media Player Classic. However, they have the same framerate issue with Windows Media Player 10. So it's possible nothing is wrong with SVCD2DVD.

I'm using the 2.0.2046 build with a 2.8Ghz P4, 1.25GB ram, and an NVidia 6600 GT. So system performance should not be an issue, and these files do play back fine with VLC and MPC with plenty of overhead.

Here is more data though. When I first tried this, SVCD2DVD would crash as soon as I tried to play the HD TS files. I then installed HDTVPump 1.0.7 to see if I could view them in Windows Media Player 10. It was like watching a slide show. Maybe 1 frame a second or so. When I tried SVCD2DVD again (after a few weeks though), it did accept the TS files, but it had the same 1 frame per second playback on the HD ones.
So since VLC worked fine, I uninstalled HDTVPump, since I didn't really need it. After I uninstalled HDTVPump, the framerate went up to maybe 10 per second or so. Which is strange, since it didn't work at all before. So I'm not sure if HDTVPump changed a setting in Windows, or left a codec installed or what.

Does anyone know how to get a good framerate playing an HDTV MPEG2 TS file through SVCD2DVD? Is this a codec problem?

Thanks for any help.

Chris

[cpt97m3]

The more I think about this, the more I think it's got to be a codec problem. Do to an unrelated problem, I reloaded Windows XP SP2 on this machine a month ago. It has Nero, PowerDVD, VLC, Adobe Premiere Elements 2, and a few other programs. I followed the instructions at:

http://replayguide.sourceforge.net/dct6412/index.html

To capture the HD and SD MPEG2 TS files from the Motorola 6412. They recommened the following codecs:

klcodec254f.exe (a full set of codecs you may need if encoding is not working for you)
ffdshow-20020617.exe (more codecs you may need - install after klcodec)
XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe (you guessed it - more codecs you may need - install after klcodec)

So I did install those. Anyone know which is the one I need to play an HDTV MPEG2 Transport Stream file?

Chris

[ChrissyBoy]

Well from SVCD2DVDs POV: Yes it uses WMP to play stuff in the preview. So if you have issues with WMP then you will have issues with the preview. Other than than SVCD2DVD doesn't use any codecs - so that is why the conversion is fine.

[cpt97m3]

Thanks. So I'll have to find a good DVD decoder for WMP that works. It looks like mine is from Nero, but the Microsoft Video Decoder checkout utility says it's not compatible with WMP 10.0. I'll see what I can find that works with these TS files.