Best way to create a DVD from a MP4?

[davexnet]

Right click the title in the main window. Select Edit source title info/video scan type
Type in "interlaced".

And as mentioned before:
Edit source title info/video display aspect ratio = 1.7778

If you do these two things first, neither the "edit title" video, nor avisynth tabs will need modifying.

[_MrC_]

@twinaleblood.

I agree that the mp4 header is messed up and the source should be interlaced and anamorphic.

Now: what is your goal? Create a DVD (A) or a youtube clip (B)?

If (A) then you MUST create an interlaced PAL DVD: tweak the Display Aspect Ratio (set to '1.778') and the Scan Type (set to 'Interlaced') with AVStoDVD and run the interlaced project. Exactly what davexnet has suggested.

If (B) then a progressive output would yield a better result. Again tweak DAR and Scan Type, then select 'Edit Title'/'AviSynth', toggle off 'Auto AviSynth Script', select 'Enhance' then select 'De-Interlace' (use default values).



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[twinaleblood]

The thing is: when my youtube clip was "wavy", the DVD counterpart looked the same on my TV. It's a tube tv from early '00s and my standalone dvd player it's hooked there. I have an LCD TV, but the standalone dvd player/recorder hooked to it it's currently broken, so i can't check the same DVD there. I guess it would work on a LCD TV though, because my PC is hooked to a LCD monitor/TV and when I play it on PowerDVD it works fine.

Therefore, my goal is to have a dvd which plays fine on both kinds of TV. Never had any problems with the tube TV before, I trade concerts on DVD, I have hundreds of them and I usually play them flawlessly on the tube TV, so I guess there must be a way.
I noticed that when the resulting file played "wavy" on YouTube it did the same on my standalone player connected to the tube TV, so I was using YouTube as a "test" to not waste more blank media, assuming that when a DVD sample would play fine on YouTube would work fine on my TV as well. Maybe I'm wrong though.

My last try in AVStoDVD was to edit the aspect ratio to 1.7778 and set the video scan type to interlaced. The resulting DVD plays perfectly on PowerDVD, but it's "wavy" on YouTube (I guess because it's not progressive, as MrC said). Would it be "wavy" on my TV too? Probably. Would a progressive output work better on the tube TV?

[_MrC_]

My last try in AVStoDVD was to edit the aspect ratio to 1.7778 and set the video scan type to interlaced. The resulting DVD plays perfectly on PowerDVD, but it's "wavy" on YouTube (I guess because it's not progressive, as MrC said). Would it be "wavy" on my TV too? Probably. Would a progressive output work better on the tube TV?

Hard to guess. It should be. Have a try. What about burning DVD-RW not to waste support media?



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[twinaleblood]

Yes, trying to burn on a DVD-R right now, I'll let you know the results. As usual, thanks for the patience and support!

[twinaleblood]

Done. Now the problem is some thin horizontal lines messing the video up. Those are visible on PowerDVD as well, but not as much as on TV. I did this as FFMpeg source (AVS filter) and HCenc VBR 2 pass, maybe i should try other video source filters or to encode with Hcenc 1 pass or FFmpeg CBR?

[_MrC_]

Done. Now the problem is some thin horizontal lines messing the video up. Those are visible on PowerDVD as well, but not as much as on TV. I did this as FFMpeg source (AVS filter) and HCenc VBR 2 pass, maybe i should try other video source filters or to encode with Hcenc 1 pass or FFmpeg CBR?

It could be that the original mp4 fields order is "bottom first": go to 'Edit Title'/'Video', toggle off 'Auto Video Setup' and select 'Bottom Field First' instead of 'Top Field First'.

Try and error... patience my friend...



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[twinaleblood]

Finally perfect!!!
Thank you so much.
Actually, the audio is unlistenable (completely sped up), but i can use the audio track from one of the faulty video versions while figuring out what was wrong with the audio settings.
Well, thanks very very much again!

[twinaleblood]

Any advices on how to set my audio?
Now every time i try I get a perfect video (using the settings we talked about earlier in this thread) but the audio is always ****ed up (totally sped up with a lot of silence in the middle, see attached pic). Tried different settings but still faulty.

The attached pic was obtained like this:

Audio Source Filter: FFMpegSource

DVD Audio format and bitrate: AC3 224 kbs

AC3 Audio encoder: FFmpeg (avisynth)

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

[twinaleblood]

More problems. I'm trying to make a dvd from MP4 files of another concert I shoot with the same camera. The audio problem is still there, same as my previous post, plus I got a video problem during the second pass of encoding (see attached pic. This same error happened at 72% during my first try, 32% during the second).

I'm attaching a screenshot of the error, the log I got from AVStoDVD and a screenshot of the specifics of the source file.

[davexnet]

Not sure about the audio - any clues in the A2D log? Regarding the message in HCenc - Warning, small source mismatch.
It can be resolved by setting FFmpegsource for the video source filter.

[_MrC_]

Why don't you try to input directly the source file, without going thru an intermediate avs file. You can tweak the avs file also in AVStoDVD. 'Edit Title'/'AviSynth' tab.

After you have added the original video file, use the 'Codecs'/'Build DirectShow Filters Graph' to see if there are some issues in the (audio) decoding chain.



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