Anyone ever use "MyDVD" by Sonic?

[jmarkoa]

Just got this new computer with it on it. It seems to be some kind of authoring program. Anyone know if it's anygood?

[Tommyknocker]

Yes, I like it. It also puts a PC DVD player on your home made VCDs. However, do not, I repeat, do not download WinDVD on your new system. The player on your disks will not work on your system once your demo version of WinDVD expires.

[jmarkoa]

I'm trying to use this to burn my re-encoded movies to DVD, but for some reason, every time I open a file with it, it re-encodes them back to the larger file size! Something about not being a "legal" file. Got any sugestions?

[Tommyknocker]

How did you encode them once you ripped them from your DVD?

[jmarkoa]

I used smartripper to rip the entire movie, used IFOEdit to strip everything possible(except 1 video and audio), then ran the new VIDEO_TS folder thru DVD2AVI to set up for TMPGEnc. Then encoded at a lower bit-rate to end-up with a .mpg file. Opened the new "smaller" file with My DVD, and somehow it grows a whole Gig back to the "pre-encoded" VIDEO_TS size! Can you believe it!! After all that work!

I was reading in the Help section and it said that any file would be "re-encoded" back to the original size if My DVD considers it to be an "ilegal" file for DVD. I guess some encoders don't make legal files? Or am I doing the encoding wrong?

[Evil Twin]

I had it and it did not work for me.
Kept getting an out of sync problwm with the video and audio.

Good luck.

[Niceone]

Mydvd is alright, but like many cheaper authoring programs it doesnt fully support 16:9 pal (US?) and iirc it doesnt support 5.1 sound, only 2 channel AC3 and the normal various wav and mp formats