dwallersv
22nd November 2006, 18:06
ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!
I'm having a helluva time getting an MPEG2 file that Encore DVD will accept without thinking it needs to transcode from the CCE->DGPulldown toolchain.
I've got some source MP4 video at film frame rates. I use CCE to transcode to M2V, and I leave it at 23.976 so it transcodes fast, thinking I'll just use DGPulldown to add pulldown flags to convert to 29.97.
I do that, and Encore DVD accepts it, but won't play it (solid green screen). Go back and examine with DGIndex and ReStream, notice that it is coded as Progressive. Use ReStream to reflag as interlaced. Now it plays fine in Encore DVD, syncs find with the audio, EDVD thinks it's 29.97fps MPEG video.
Yet, it still insists on transcoding when building the DVD, which basically defeats the entire purpose of the CCE->DGPulldown process.
The whole point of this is speed -- CCE is much faster transcoding from MP4 (through AviSynth) to MPEG2, and then adding pulldown flags with DGPulldown, than EDVD's crapola MainConcept MPEG2 encoder.
Anyone have any idea what the problem is?
BTW, if I convert frame rates in my original AVS with ConvertFPS, then feed that into CCE, I get a usable M2V in EDVD that the app accepts as DVD compliant, and doesn't try to transcode it. However, this method is obviously considerably slower, as the AviSynth framerate conversion adds computational overhead, and there are more frames going into CCE to be encoded, so this is my second choice if I have to go this route. I'd like to get the pulldown flag approach to work if I can, but EDVD doesn't seem to like M2V's coded that way.
I'm having a helluva time getting an MPEG2 file that Encore DVD will accept without thinking it needs to transcode from the CCE->DGPulldown toolchain.
I've got some source MP4 video at film frame rates. I use CCE to transcode to M2V, and I leave it at 23.976 so it transcodes fast, thinking I'll just use DGPulldown to add pulldown flags to convert to 29.97.
I do that, and Encore DVD accepts it, but won't play it (solid green screen). Go back and examine with DGIndex and ReStream, notice that it is coded as Progressive. Use ReStream to reflag as interlaced. Now it plays fine in Encore DVD, syncs find with the audio, EDVD thinks it's 29.97fps MPEG video.
Yet, it still insists on transcoding when building the DVD, which basically defeats the entire purpose of the CCE->DGPulldown process.
The whole point of this is speed -- CCE is much faster transcoding from MP4 (through AviSynth) to MPEG2, and then adding pulldown flags with DGPulldown, than EDVD's crapola MainConcept MPEG2 encoder.
Anyone have any idea what the problem is?
BTW, if I convert frame rates in my original AVS with ConvertFPS, then feed that into CCE, I get a usable M2V in EDVD that the app accepts as DVD compliant, and doesn't try to transcode it. However, this method is obviously considerably slower, as the AviSynth framerate conversion adds computational overhead, and there are more frames going into CCE to be encoded, so this is my second choice if I have to go this route. I'd like to get the pulldown flag approach to work if I can, but EDVD doesn't seem to like M2V's coded that way.