Weird Problem with TMPGEnc

[The Monkees]

I'm trying to create a DVD through TMPGEnc DVD Author and I'm having weird problems. One that says:

The Video Resolution 320x240 cannot be used on a standard DVD

And the other says:

The video framerate 29.97 fps cannot be used with the resolution 320x240

How can I fix these?

[redwudz]

It would normally be 352 X 240 for NTSC video, but unless TDA is being extra particular and there are some odd numbers like 29.9733 that part should have worked.

BTW, this isn't software playing. Moving you to DVD Authoring.

[The Monkees]

Yeah, but it won't change over, is there a way to do this or to get around it?

[guns1inger]

TDA doesn't encode, so if you want to change it you need an encoder (such as tmpgenc plus) that can resize and re-encode for you.

[jimmalenko]

The one and only problem here is the 320 x 240 not being a valid DVD resolution. One fix is to re-encode to a DVD-compliant resolution (I'd suggest 352 x 240), another fix is to patch the resolution with DVDPatcher so that TDA will accept it. It'll probably show up as a weird green border around some of the clip in TDA.

[The Monkees]

Okay, I used TMPGenc DVD Author Pro and fixed the resolution, but the only problem is that it only did about 14 minutes of a 20 minute clip, why did it do that?

[ZippyP.]

why did it do that?

Error in the file maybe.

[The Monkees]

I tried it on two different files though and it did the same thing both times

[Abond]

Okay, I used TMPGenc DVD Author Pro and fixed the resolution,

How you fixed it?

[SatStorm]

Withour re-encoding you can't "fix" this problem.
patching the files won't help either: Issues pop up randomnly

If you wish to use non standard framesizes, try DVD LAB

[The Monkees]

If I can't "fix" this problem, why did it work then? I don't understand what you're saying. The resolution changed from the unusable resolution to a usable resolution.

[jman98]

There's probably an error in the video stream, even if it's not apparent to you. It's a long story, but I recently made a DVD of a VCD I have after converting the audio to 48 Khz LPCM. Scenarist accepted the input video stream, but it kept dying in the mux with a weird error I don't understand. In desperation, I used SVCD2DVD to make the DVD and it worked. When I watched it, there was a spot in the film where my DVD just flipped out and lost its mind for a couple of seconds. I think it was about at the same place time wise that Scenarist died. I have no idea what the problem was, but something was wrong enough to make my DVD player and Scenarist flip out over it. You may have a bad spot in the film after the 14 minute mark.

[SatStorm]

It didn't change: You fooled the authoring program so to accept the illegal framesize.
You did something called xDVD

Most players (the cheaper ones) won't have a problem, but some players will.

This had nothing to do with the problem you faced here: jman98 is probably right: Something on you videostream is broken. The only "fast" way to "fix" it, is to detect and cut this part of the stream.
I do this with mpeg2vcr when occurs