Dvb 2 Dvd

[symonjfox]

Hi, I thought that posting this here would be nice, since it's DVB specific.

ok, let's begin.

I heard that a lot of DVD players, support the Standard DVD resolutions (D1, cropped D1, Half D1 and Quarted D1), and also some non standard resolutions.

I have just bought a DVD+-recorder and I wanted to test something.

My goal now is to keep the best quality as I can. So I won't resize or reencode video/audio if not necessary. I will do it just for very long recordings (LOTR for example) or if I want to use 1 disc for more movies.

Here comes the matter. Are there some options, settings, features that I MUST use for a good DVD compatibility?
For example I know that CCE has an option that ensures DVD compatibility, but it will create black borders to fit 720*576 resolution. I'd like to use also 544*576 for example.

How can I MUX the MPV and MPA after Pvastrumento? I readed something in the DVD authoring forum but I think that is so difficult (ok, I'm kind of newbie for DVD authoriting and recording ... just learning).

Isn't it there a simple MPV-MPA --> VOB IFO transmuxer?

Thanks for the replies.

[Zhnujm]

Most (if not all) DVD Authoring Programs support seperated Audio/Video files, so thats no problem. If you search a really easy solution you can try TMPEG DVD Author, its very simple.
Sad thing is that you need to patch the video files if they are not 720 or 704 pixel width.

As for CCE encoding, i just disable the DVD compliant checkbox and have no problems.

[symonjfox]

Hi. I made some tests, but and it's EASYER than I thought.

I read Doom's 9 Scenarist guide and I was afraid of complexity of that program :confused: I thought that any DVD software would be like that ... fortunately TMPGENC DVD is easyest and has all features I want.

I discovered that, as you suggested, to have less problems we have to patch the MPV files using DVDPatcher and giving them a DVD compilant resolution.

Thanks for the reply.

When I'll have time I'll write down an easy newbie guide for DVB 2 DVD direct conversion, so many other users will be happy :D :D :D

[symonjfox]

Hi, I have another point (always about DVB --> DVD conversion).

I recorded a 2:30 program on a very good channel (high res 704*576 and high bitrate ~8000 kbs).

My problem is that the entire program is too large for 1 DVD-r so I must reencode it.

So I begun to demux (PVAStrumento) and build up an usual AVS script, but there's a problem:

How can I correctly CUT commercials but keeping the original MPA audio (no reencode it).
I know about besplit, but I'd like to perform a PERFECT cut.
Something like AVS: Trim (0, 257899) but not using MPAsource.dll.

Any suggestions?

[Zhnujm]

Thats how i had this usually done with ac3 streams:
Load the Video + Audio into VirtualDub and do the cutting, and then save the audio via "Direct Stream Copy"
That should also work with mp2 streams, but you have to add a wav header to the files, i think besweet can do this but i must say i have never tried it.

[unixfs]

Originally posted by symonjfox
Hi. I made some tests, but and it's EASYER than I thought.
I discovered that, as you suggested, to have less problems we have to patch the MPV files using DVDPatcher and giving them a DVD compilant resolution.


Does patching the resolution work for you?

For trimming out commercials you can use a combination of VDmpeg2 and
TMPG:

with VD you can select the exact clipping boundaries,
then you can use TMPG to clip the original file and merge the clips via Mpegtools (even as a single step), but paying attention not to use the seeking slider (very buggy), only the timer boxes.

Note: If you can't save it as MPEG2-PS you can save the stream as System-1 VBR, and eventually demux and remux the file as mpeg2 with BBmpeg

[symonjfox]

I discovered that some DVD authoring tools like TMPGEnc DVD Author, let you directly CUT some scenes before creating the final project.

It's a nice thing. Just DVB record, Demux into ES streams, Open the ES streams in TMPGenc DVDauthor (or other programs) and then directly cut away commercials.