chuby
16th April 2003, 11:50
hi ! I have a question, most DVD authoring programs I've used so far have a good? ( bad for me in this case ) problem(s)
1. they dont allow direct use of VOBs
2. if you have the elemental streams ( m2v,sound ) they check for DVD compatibility when importing/muxing the files.
I know about the DVD compatible video streams ntsc 720/704/480/352x480/240 for DVD's, but a few weeks ago I got a movie that came in 3 CDs ( a SVCD movie ), well being a lazy A$$ as I am, I tought, let's try to make a DVD with the original MPG2s that come on the SVCD ( 480x480 ) to see if it plays in my standalone player, so I mounted the images on daemon tools, extracted the MPG2 files, demuxed them, then I created the VOBS with IfoEdit,then Erased all the bups and ifos, so I ended with 3 VOBS ( one for each CD ).
Then with VOBedit I joined the 3 VOBS, and used IfoEdit Again to create new IFO files, then to test I created an ISO file and mounted it as a DVD with the daemon tools, and played it using POWERVCR, and well it worked fine, so I burned the image in a DVD-RW and tested it on my standalone, and well, lucky me, it worked!! ( looks like my standalone dosen't care much for the compatibility as long as they are mpg2 files with a DVD format it will play it )
well as you might imagine now that I tested 480x480 on the standalone, I can fit 2 movies on one DVD-R with a good quality ( SVCD ), I could also add subtitles and other audios and blah blah blah. but the point is that as everyone knows when you create new IFO files with IFOedit, you end up with just a stream of the movie, and if you ask for a new PGC for each VOBid, you'll end up with 1 chapter for each CD ( doing it the way I did ), now the problem is that I want to create menus for this kind of dvds, but as I stated Before:
All the programs I have do not allow loading VOBS as assets
:( , and If I load the elementary streams I have one of 2 problems, either I get "this stream is not DVD compatible" or they load it, but when I want to make the image they reencode the file to make it "dvd compatible".
What I need is a software that either allows me to create menus with my VOBS, or a software that does not check for "compatibility", and do not reencode.
now what software can do it ?
or some Ideas on how to create a menu, store it on a VOB then re-link it with IFOEDIT to the appropiate pgcs of the vobs.
or any Idea that allows me to create menus without all the "compatibility" issues. TYVMIA
1. they dont allow direct use of VOBs
2. if you have the elemental streams ( m2v,sound ) they check for DVD compatibility when importing/muxing the files.
I know about the DVD compatible video streams ntsc 720/704/480/352x480/240 for DVD's, but a few weeks ago I got a movie that came in 3 CDs ( a SVCD movie ), well being a lazy A$$ as I am, I tought, let's try to make a DVD with the original MPG2s that come on the SVCD ( 480x480 ) to see if it plays in my standalone player, so I mounted the images on daemon tools, extracted the MPG2 files, demuxed them, then I created the VOBS with IfoEdit,then Erased all the bups and ifos, so I ended with 3 VOBS ( one for each CD ).
Then with VOBedit I joined the 3 VOBS, and used IfoEdit Again to create new IFO files, then to test I created an ISO file and mounted it as a DVD with the daemon tools, and played it using POWERVCR, and well it worked fine, so I burned the image in a DVD-RW and tested it on my standalone, and well, lucky me, it worked!! ( looks like my standalone dosen't care much for the compatibility as long as they are mpg2 files with a DVD format it will play it )
well as you might imagine now that I tested 480x480 on the standalone, I can fit 2 movies on one DVD-R with a good quality ( SVCD ), I could also add subtitles and other audios and blah blah blah. but the point is that as everyone knows when you create new IFO files with IFOedit, you end up with just a stream of the movie, and if you ask for a new PGC for each VOBid, you'll end up with 1 chapter for each CD ( doing it the way I did ), now the problem is that I want to create menus for this kind of dvds, but as I stated Before:
All the programs I have do not allow loading VOBS as assets
:( , and If I load the elementary streams I have one of 2 problems, either I get "this stream is not DVD compatible" or they load it, but when I want to make the image they reencode the file to make it "dvd compatible".
What I need is a software that either allows me to create menus with my VOBS, or a software that does not check for "compatibility", and do not reencode.
now what software can do it ?
or some Ideas on how to create a menu, store it on a VOB then re-link it with IFOEDIT to the appropiate pgcs of the vobs.
or any Idea that allows me to create menus without all the "compatibility" issues. TYVMIA