Ulead Movie Factory Issue / Mpeg files

[DVDdummy]

Hello, i hope someone can help with this odd problem.
I have 17 different Mpeg files i want to burn to DVD. I converted all the files with the SUPER program to Mpeg1, Audio MP3. I opened up Ulead Movie Factory 3.5, imported all the files into the program. The accumulated file size is 4.10 GB. But the time size is over 4 hours. So just before i started to burn the DVD i noticed the woking folder needed to be only 3.8 GB (i thought that was odd) Usually the working folder is much bigger. So after many hours of converting and burning etc.... an error occured saying something about not enough disc space. Well i had over 15 GB to play with so this is odd. I hope someone can help with this little issue. Here is an example of one of the files. that may help. Thanks!!!

General #0
Count : 177
Count of stream of this kind : 1
Kind of stream : General
StreamKindID : 0
Count of video streams : 1
Count of audio streams : 1
Count of text streams : 0
Count of chapter streams : 0
Codecs Video : MPEG-1 Video
Audio codecs : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
File extension : mpg
Format : MPEG-1PS
Format : MPEG-1 Program
Format/Family : MPEG-1
Format/Extensions : mpeg mpg
Codec : MPEG-1PS
Codec : MPEG-1 Program
Codec/Family : MPEG-1
Codec/Extensions : mpeg mpg
File size : 204417024
File size : 195 MiB
File size : 195 MiB
File size : 195 MiB
File size : 195 MiB
File size : 194.9 MiB
PlayTime : 744432
PlayTime : 12mn 24s
PlayTime : 12mn 24s 432ms
PlayTime : 12mn 24s
PlayTime : 00:12:24.432
Bit rate : 2196756
Bit rate : 2197 Kbps

Video #0
Count : 74
Count of stream of this kind : 1
Kind of stream : Video
StreamKindID : 0
Codec : MPEG-1V
Codec : MPEG-1 Video
Codec settings/Matrix : Standard
PlayTime : 743700
PlayTime : 12mn 23s
PlayTime : 12mn 23s 700ms
PlayTime : 12mn 23s
PlayTime : 00:12:23.700
Bit rate : 2544000
Bit rate : 2544 Kbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Width : 720
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480
Height : 480 pixels
Aspect ratio : 1.500
Aspect ratio : 1.500
Frame rate : 29.970
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
FrameCount : 22288
Interlacement : PPF
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.246
Delay : 500
Delay : 500ms
Delay : 500ms
Delay : 500ms
Delay : 00:00:00.500

Audio #0
Count : 59
Count of stream of this kind : 1
Kind of stream : Audio
StreamKindID : 0
Codec : MPEG-1A L3
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
PlayTime : 744432
PlayTime : 12mn 24s
PlayTime : 12mn 24s 432ms
PlayTime : 12mn 24s
PlayTime : 00:12:24.432
Bit rate : 128000
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Channel(s) : 2
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48000
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
SamplingCount : 35732736
Resolution : 16
Resolution : 16 bits
Delay : 500
Delay : 500ms
Delay : 500ms
Delay : 500ms
Delay : 00:00:00.500
Video0 delay : 0

[redwudz]

You can't use MP3 audio with a DVD. Your Ulead program may have converted them to WAV or PCM audio, which will be much larger. Convert the audio to AC3 or MP2 and that may fix the problem. For the DVD specs, see 'WHAT IS' DVD to the upper left on this page.

[LJB]

If you use SUPER to encode to MPEG-1, why not have SUPER encode to MPEG-2 with AC3 audio?

[Cornucopia]

If you use SUPER to encode to MPEG-1, why not have SUPER encode to MPEG-2 with AC3 audio?

My thoughts exactly...

Scott

[DVDdummy]

I tried AC3 before on some other file and Ulead Movie Factory wouldn't accept it for some reason. I will try converting to MP2 as see if that works. Thanks.

[thecoalman]

So after many hours of converting and burning etc....

Sounds to me as if MF is converting your video . If the file you generated in Super is DVD compatible using the "do not convert compliant files" option should leave the files as is and greatly speed up the process. Suggest you look it up in the manual.


Add to that why not just import your MPEG's into MF, set the bitrate appropiately and let it convert the files?

As far as AC3 goes that's quite an old version and may not support it.