Womble Video Wizard - questions...

[Speed Demon]

Hi,

I had some digital TV recordings I wanted to transfer to DVD-Video using Ulead Movie factory without reencoding. Someone gave me the hint that when I let them run through the Womble Video Wizard (setting "automatic"), Ulead Movie Factory would not reencode, which actually worked.

Now, there are some problems I still have:
1.) I have a lot of recordings that are still demultiplexed. When I'm using the internal multiplexer of Womble video wizard, does this have the same effect than using this "Automatic" setting of Womble (meaning Ulead won't reencode and the files will be somewhat "cleaned"?).

2.) I noticed Womble Video Wizard always took just one audio stream. When a mpg file had e.g. 3 audio streams, the other 2 were lost.

3.) Is there a batch tool for Video Wizard so I could "feed" it with multiple mpg files? It would be much easier since it's a lot of video files.

Thank you...

[politiken]

Hi -

Question 1: YES - It is actually Womble that does the smart reencoding, not Ulead.
Question 2: Womble only support One video, One audio, One chapter - and NO subtitles at all.
Question 3: Don't know

Regards Pol

[Speed Demon]

hm, thanks. Is there an alternative for those files that have 3 audio files so that I at least can separately make them "DVD-compatible" so Ulead won't reencode?

[noemi7]

Doesn't UMF accept demuxed/elementary stream? If not mux it with muxman, TMPGEnc (free) or Cuttermaran which has built-in mplex.

[politiken]

A fast reply is: demux audios and subtitles from the original DVD and then when remuxing using MuxMan just add the other audios/subtitles to the remux proces as well. Depending on how much you change during the Ulead/Womble process there could be sync problems with the other audios/subtitles - Very few DVD author apps use smart reencoding- I know of no other than Womble, but because of the lacking subtitles support I do not use it.

[Speed Demon]

Hm, UMF might accept demuxed stream, but that would not solve my problem. You know, it's like this:
I run all the files through Womble to make them more compatible and UMF won't reencode.

Now I realized, Womble only encodes one audio stream. But what do I do now if I have files with multiple audio streams, i.e. which program can I use alternatively to Womble which makes them compatible in the sense that UMF won't reencode?