acarney
2nd December 2009, 11:02
I'm not sure which place to post this, in a section about DVD encoding or in this section because I'm on a Mac and I would like help with finding a fix that will work with my Mac's. (I do have a PC that's about 4 or 5 years old, if it's a windows only fix I might still be able to use it, just instead of minutes or hours it'll take probably a day to encode if I have to use the PC)
I'm taking a selection of content that is mostly h264 stuff or xvid encoded and trying to burn them to DVD. Very simply, no cutting or post process stuff just so I can watch them on my girlfriends cheap DVD player or let friends borrow them. Almost all the content seems to be 23.97 fps (FILM?) but I have one work line that will be PAL stuff (UK show that doesn't air in the USA)
I want to say about 90% of the time VisualHub works perfect and take about 30 minutes to take the 700Mb file and give me a perfect DVD. However, sometimes when I play a DVD it looks like it's stuttering, especially in smooth panning shots like when logos are flying onto screen at the start. At first I though the bit rate was too high or something but I posted at the VisualHub forums and they suggested it wasn't the right frame rate and told me to do "FILM" in the frame rate box of VisualHub and it would fix it or something. They've since shut down and the post is gone and I can't remember the fix, everything I try seems to make it worse or not doing anything at all.
Is there a command for FFMPEG (VisualHub's back end?) that I can add to my project which will handle these files and convert them correctly or another free Mac program that I can pass them by first real fast? I'm trying to look for a one step or at least just one other step before visualhub takes care of the encode and DVD burn since I do these often and rarely have time at home to mess with a few different steps or trials. (Most the time it's click and then grab the DVD after I wake up in the morning)
Any and all help would really be great, nothing I seem to do works (tried 29.97 and "FILM" and "NTSC" in the VisualHub frame rate box, tried JES Deinterlace (crashes on snow leopard, my fast iMac) and moves at about 7fps on my ~2 yr old 2Ghz Core2 MacBook gives me a 80Gig file for a 1.5 hr movie and VisualHub converts it to a DVD which has the video in a small box in the center of the screen (maybe 60% the size of the frame) and is interlaced BAD, even though I select deinterlace in both programs...)
I'm taking a selection of content that is mostly h264 stuff or xvid encoded and trying to burn them to DVD. Very simply, no cutting or post process stuff just so I can watch them on my girlfriends cheap DVD player or let friends borrow them. Almost all the content seems to be 23.97 fps (FILM?) but I have one work line that will be PAL stuff (UK show that doesn't air in the USA)
I want to say about 90% of the time VisualHub works perfect and take about 30 minutes to take the 700Mb file and give me a perfect DVD. However, sometimes when I play a DVD it looks like it's stuttering, especially in smooth panning shots like when logos are flying onto screen at the start. At first I though the bit rate was too high or something but I posted at the VisualHub forums and they suggested it wasn't the right frame rate and told me to do "FILM" in the frame rate box of VisualHub and it would fix it or something. They've since shut down and the post is gone and I can't remember the fix, everything I try seems to make it worse or not doing anything at all.
Is there a command for FFMPEG (VisualHub's back end?) that I can add to my project which will handle these files and convert them correctly or another free Mac program that I can pass them by first real fast? I'm trying to look for a one step or at least just one other step before visualhub takes care of the encode and DVD burn since I do these often and rarely have time at home to mess with a few different steps or trials. (Most the time it's click and then grab the DVD after I wake up in the morning)
Any and all help would really be great, nothing I seem to do works (tried 29.97 and "FILM" and "NTSC" in the VisualHub frame rate box, tried JES Deinterlace (crashes on snow leopard, my fast iMac) and moves at about 7fps on my ~2 yr old 2Ghz Core2 MacBook gives me a 80Gig file for a 1.5 hr movie and VisualHub converts it to a DVD which has the video in a small box in the center of the screen (maybe 60% the size of the frame) and is interlaced BAD, even though I select deinterlace in both programs...)