h.264 to dvd?

[rahzel]

i've tried TMPGEnc Plus, WinAVI and CXtoDVD, but only WinAVI could even encode it, however, the source video was 2.35:1, and winavi was unable to keep the aspect ratio, and i'd rather find a better tool anyway.

whats the best way to convert h.264 mpeg4 video to DVD format?

[Sirber]

DVD is limited to certain ratio. best make it fit on 16:9 and use a flag to make it display right, like DVD do.

[rahzel]

yeah i know theres pretty much only 2 aspect ratios for DVD's (1.78/1.85 or 1.33) and that 2.35 movies have black bars to make it 16:9.

i did manage to keep the aspect ratio with WinAVI, but still, i'd rather find a better encoder that will do this, as i'm not confident in WinAVI's output quality.

if theres no other way, i guess i will have to settle with WinAVI.

[foxyshadis]

yeah i know theres pretty much only 2 aspect ratios for DVD's (1.78/1.85 or 1.33) and that 2.35 movies have black bars to make it 16:9.
This is called the "lazy method". (Though I'm sure there's another name.) Use anamorphic encoding, as sirber says; DVD has only one resolution per region (720x480 ntsc or 720x544 pal), excluding CIF, which can be flagged to be as wide or narrow as you like. Fitting 2.35 in 1.78 is only done to please bad hardware encoders.

Since h.264's only contribution to this topic is the use of DirectShowSource, this really belongs in the DVD forum.

[rahzel]

i've managed to open it with tmpgenc plus, by installing a mp4 splitter.

now my problem is, i can't manage to convert the aac 5.1 audio to ac3. i found a thread here at doom9 through google (which is pretty much the only place that explains how to do this) but i don't really understand how to do it.

someone made 2 mini guides, one using graphedit, but i can't seem to get that to work properly (graph edit won't open the aac file for some reason, even though ffdshow codec is enabled for aac) and another method making it a 6ch wav file first, then splitting it to 6 mono wav's with besplit/besweet, but i can't manage to split it to 6 mono wav's with besplit for some reason.

man, i wish there was just one tool that could convert aac to ac3, but it seems like you need multiple programs to get this task done.

[smok3]

man, i wish there was just one tool that could convert aac to ac3, but it seems like you need multiple programs to get this task done. maybe ffmpeg (or mencoder).