Suitable program for converting .ts (HDTV?) to DVD with merged subtitle

[KOJV]

Yeah, I'm sorry but setting a time frame in movie that you want to demux with DGIndex isn't an exact science, really.

The MIME types have been added to the server though, so now you can download the m2v and dts files.

[manono]

Yeah, I'm sorry but setting a time frame in movie that you want to demux with DGIndex isn't an exact science, really.

Tell me you can't get it closer to 10 seconds than a minute of video. If you mess up the first time, do it again. Set a start point, use the right arrow of the keyboard once, set an end point, and save. Check the length. Sorry, but I'm not waiting 51 minutes to download 166 MB. Find someone else to help you.

[KOJV]

manono, sorry, I didn't realise you were that thin on bandwidth. I have now added a 22 second and a 3 second clip at 40MB and 5MB respectively.

[manono]

I have plenty of bandwidth. As I understand it, Sweden is great within the country, but that bandwidth is limited or choked when data leaves the country. In any event, you don't seem to understand that to figure out what you have, I (or anyone else) need only a very small slice of the video. The 3 seconds was fine. Thanks.

You didn't cap that yourself, but someone else did it. So it's already been encoded once, as near as I can tell. And to 1440x816. It's 23.976fps with no interlacing or artifacts of any kind. You added them when encoding for DVD, probably by having your encoder do the 23.976->29.97fps hard telecine itself. You don't need to hardcode it to 29.97fps. You only need to apply pulldown to the progressive 23.976fps video stream.

Make the D2V using Honor Pulldown Flags. A sample script will go something like this:

LoadPlugin("C:\Path\To\DGDecode.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\Path\To\Video.d2v")
LanczosResize(720,480)#if making an NTSC DVD
ConvertToYUY2()#for CCE, ConvertToRGB24() for TMPGEnc

Encode for progressive 23.976fps and 16:9. Apply 3:2 pulldown either during the encode or afterwards. I use DGPulldown after the encoding myself. Then it will output 29.97fps and any authoring app will take it. It shouldn't have any artifacts when done. Good luck.

[KOJV]

I'm using the reencoding wizard in TMPGEnc. Could you write more specific instructions for how to convert this movie to DVD size? Or explain how to use the script you provided. I'm running Windows. The output should be PAL DVD.

I tried again but TMPGEnc still makes movements sluggish, like the lines between dark and light areas look interlaced.

I made sure Honor Pulldown Flags was checked in DGIndex.

Also, can I make the TMPGEnc output as .mpv instead of mpg? Because DVD Lab insists that imported assets are or become .mpv and .mpa demuxed, if it's .mpg it'll demux it once again and I wish to avoid extra processing if it's not needed, to avoid quality loss.

Thanks for all your help!

[manono]

Oh, for PAL? Then the script is:

LoadPlugin("C:\Path\To\DGDecode.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\Path\To\Video.d2v")
LanczosResize(720,576)
ConvertToRGB24()#for TMPGEnc

Encode for 23.976fps and apply DGPulldown for 23.976->25fps when done. That way the length stays the same and you can use the same unstretched audio.

I don't use TMPGenc. There's a guide FulciLives wrote somewhere around here:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=300144
http://www.johnisme.shawbiz.ca/avi.shtml

Fulci's is for PAL to NTSC, but the settings should help. John's is for AVI2DVD, but should still help you with the settings. You won't be using the Wizard, though. You'll have to actually learn something. To get MPV or M2V output, don't add in the audio. Add it in when authoring.

[KOJV]

Oh, for PAL? Then the script is:

LoadPlugin("C:\Path\To\DGDecode.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\Path\To\Video.d2v")
LanczosResize(720,576)
ConvertToRGB24()#for TMPGEnc

But what do I do with such a script? As I said, I'm running Windows... this here script seem to be something you'd put in a batch file to run some mysterious text-based encoder in Linux.

[manono]

You don't know AviSynth? You install AviSynth. You take that script adjusted for your paths and names and stick it into a text file renamed as .avs. So, inside of a Video.txt renamed as Video.avs, you put that adjusted script. You then open it in VDub(Mod) as you would any other video, to see if it opens, and to see if everything looks OK. If it checks out, then you open it in your encoder and set it up to encode:

http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/QuickStart.html
http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/DGDecodeManual.html#Examples
http://avisynth.org/

Both the DGDecode.dll, as well as DGIndex are included in the DGMPEGDec package. Also included are 3 very good docs which you should probably read half a dozen times.

[KOJV]

Okay manono, thank you very much for your time, but I'm checking out right here. If it can't be done using an interface, I'm really not quite that interested. I forsaid myself to write a 35 minute movie subtitle from scratch and that to be the hardest effort for this project. Now it seems I'll just burn these .ts files on data discs and keep them while waiting for HDTV accessories to develop.

But thank you very much anyhow!