Trouble makeing a DVD without Glitches

[mongoo13]

Hello, I am trying to transfer old home movies to DVD using an Optibase Capture Card & TMPGEnc DVD Author 3. I burn using Nero burning rom 8.

I didn't capture the video files to begin with, so I am working with what I have been given thus far and have been running into these problems.

1) Authoring & burning discs to Dual Layer DVD's will not play in our DVD player (which is pretty new and even plays HD discs). Single layer Authors & burns do play in a DVD player of the same files if reencoded.

2) I've found that you can change the bitrate of the file in DVD Author so I could fit the large files onto a single disc. First I tryed VBR 2 pass, but that was going to take like 6 hours, so I opted for vbr 1 pass instead which took 20mins. Thing is that the dvd that plays in the player has this distorting or tearing that makes parts of the picture bend out sideways really quicky and back. This happens enough that I don't want to make a bunch of copies till it is worked out and reauthored without the glitch. The original file does not show this glitch so I'm thinking it must have something to do with the reencoding process. The DVD seemed to play fine though.

3) So I tryed picking out a couple of different files that were smaller that would not need reencoding to fit onto a single layer dvd. I did not notice the the image tearing on the final dvd like the one previous disc, but the video would studder or skip video frames a lot, plus the mux audio/video sync was off (though that could have more to do with when it was captured?)

Will someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here and what can be done to produce clean VHS to DVD transfers using the above listed equipment? I can recapture the video's if that is apart of the problem.

Thank you very much

[guns1inger]

1. Attempting to burn DL with Nero is as good as flushing money down the toilet. Use Imgburn for DL burning.

Using any media other than Verbatim +R DL media made in Singapore is as good as flushing more money down the toilet.

2. 2 Pass VBR should take approx twice as long as a single pass encode, so something doesn't add up. Either one pass takes 3 hours, or two passes takes 40 - 50 minutes. You can't get a single pass VBR done in 20 minutes, but have a 2 pass encode take 6 hours.

Post stills of the 'glitch' so we can see.

I suspect your problems are a combination of bad burning to low grade media. The 'glitch' sounds like interlacing, which is not a glitch, and won't be seen on your TV, but a still or 2 second clip can confirm this.

[mongoo13]

Thank you Gunslinger, I will look into Imgburn, but the media we have here is Windata DVD+R DL, a brand I've never heard before, So maybe Dual Layer is out of the question then.

The DVD Single Layer Media we are using is TDK DVD-R. Interlacing was selected in DVD Author track settings, I thought this was probably what the file was already encoded as in the Mpeg 2 mpv/mpa capture, and might be more playable in older dvd players. The goal of all of this is to make copies for the family, so compatibiliy is an issue. The glich or smearning/tearing of the video could be caused by the interlace process, but it is viewable on a tv played on a dvd player. This does not look like interlacing, it is not so jagged, more like bad tv reception which pulls some of the vertical lines in an area towards the right in a wavey/fuzzy way. I didn't actually finish the VBR 2 pass, 6 hours was just the estimated time it gave me, and I don't have that kind of time to tie up with all of these so I canceled the output. When I tried VBR 1 pass it estimated 10 minutes and took 20.

What can I use to get the clips/shots of the video you need to see? I'm not familure with posting that kind of stuff.

Thanks again

[guns1inger]

You can use AVI Demux to cut short clip of the problem. Just a few seconds is enough. MPC or VLC can be used to grab stills : https://forum.videohelp.com/topic239865.html explains how.

What you are describing does not sound like an encoding problem, but a capture problem. Does the video look like this before it is encoded ?