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    Hey

    I've recently upgraded from TMPGenc DVD Author 1 to DVD Author Pro 2 (Tsumami) and have found that it is much slower when authoring a dvd.

    With TMPGenc DVD Author 1 it would usually take a little bit longer than what it would take to copy the files from one HDD to the other (around 10 minutes), but with the new one it's taking well over an hour for a 4GB DVD.

    My source files are .MPG (mpeg-2 obviously) with mpeg-2 audio. And I'm outputting with no menu and it's still taking over an hour just to author.

    *Btw, the bitrate of the videos is a bit over the dvd limit I think (The header's 15000kbps but the peak is about 12000kbps). I really don't mind if it's out of standard, as I watch on the PC mainly and I don't want to re-encode to make it a standard dvd.

    Anyone know what's going on.
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    Have you checked to see if it's doing some re-encoding of the audio or video? Compare the bitrates, etc. of the VOBS to your MPEG file. With the program running that long, I suspect it's doing more than just authoring. I'm still using 1.6 and have no plans to upgrade.
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    If you don't want a standard DVD, don't use a DVD Authoring tool. They are designed to make your video comply with the DVD spec. 12000kbps is quite a bit over the spec.

    You could try patching the header to make the bitrate appear to be lower, or just leave it as mpeg for computer playback.
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    Originally Posted by spanky123
    Btw, the bitrate of the videos is a bit over the dvd limit I think (The header's 15000kbps but the peak is about 12000kbps). I really don't mind if it's out of standard, as I watch on the PC mainly and I don't want to re-encode to make it a standard dvd.
    TDA 2 and higher will re-encode video that are not MPEG2 DVD complaining. In my case, TDA 2 will re encode my Panasonic DMR-ES10 recordings.

    Because of this I still keep a copy of TDA 1.5 in my PC just to ovoid re-encoding some problematic videos.
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  5. My TDA2 complains about non-standard bitrates and/or GOP sizes but will author without re-encoding. I suspect that there's something else going on with your source files that TDA2 isn't liking.

    Just another thought, you have got enough space on the drive where TDA is generating it's temp files?
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    Have you checked to see if it's doing some re-encoding of the audio or video? Compare the bitrates, etc. of the VOBS to your MPEG file. With the program running that long, I suspect it's doing more than just authoring.

    I haven't checked. I stop it after 10 minutes. It looks like it's gonna take well over an hour. I been using 1.6 the last couple days anyway
    I'm guessing it's transcoding it to make it dvd compliant for some reason.

    If you don't want a standard DVD, don't use a DVD Authoring tool. They are designed to make your video comply with the DVD spec. 12000kbps is quite a bit over the spec.

    Yeah. TDA 1.6 just authors and that's it. It warns you, but if you can skip all that and just author as is.

    TDA 2 and higher will re-encode video that are not MPEG2 DVD complaining

    Aaaah. Ok. That explains it then. Btw, i think you mean 'dvd compliant', yes ?

    Just another thought, you have got enough space on the drive where TDA is generating it's temp files?

    Yeah. I got plenty of space
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