Fastest authoring program?

[unixfs]

Hi,

I've been trying some demo of dvd authoring programs (dvd-lab, dvdauthor, dazzle dvd-complete), but either they are very picky on the source (the first two don't read vcd mpegs) or they are very slow (dvdauthor: 2+ hours to make a directory).

What program would you reccomend?

Thanks very much.

[gooki]

If you don't need menu's, but only the movie, ifoedit's dvd author function is about as fast as it gets, and doesn't seem to picky about sources.

Also from my experience DVD Maestro is quite fast.

[DonBerg]

The reason its taking so long is most likely you are not starting with DVD-compatable source files. With video and audio encoded in the proper DVD format (MPEG2 video, 48Khz audio in PCM,MP2,or AC3) it will only take 15minutes or less. If the authoring program detects incompatible video or audio (352X240 MPEG1 video is not DVD-compatible) it will have to re-encode and that can take hours.

[unixfs]

Originally posted by DonBerg
The reason its taking so long is most likely you are not starting with DVD-compatable source files. With video and audio encoded in the proper DVD format (MPEG2 video, 48Khz audio in PCM,MP2,or AC3) it will only take 15minutes or less. If the authoring program detects incompatible video or audio (352X240 MPEG1 video is not DVD-compatible) it will have to re-encode and that can take hours.

you are wrong: 352x288 mpeg1 is perfectly dvd compatible because it's included in the video-dvd standard, and dvdauthor knows it very well: if I compare the video part of the original and of the final file they are exactly equal, bit-by-bit.

[auenf]

Originally posted by unixfs
you are wrong: 352x288 mpeg1 is perfectly dvd compatible because it's included in the video-dvd standard, and dvdauthor knows it very well: if I compare the video part of the original and of the final file they are exactly equal, bit-by-bit.

VCD spec allows larger gop size than DVD

Enf...

[unixfs]

in that case dvdauthor asks me what to do and I tell it to
ignore the gop difference. Yesterday it didnt't complain once, but
it still took 125 minutes to compile the dvd

[Lord of the Discs]

Is your datarate compatible to the standard?
Which frequency has your audio?

[unixfs]

Originally posted by Lord of the Discs
Is your datarate compatible to the standard?

yes, it's 1152 cbr, and afaik it has to be < 1800 for mpeg1-dvd

Which frequency has your audio?

it's 44.1 Khz, but encoding all the tracks with TMPG's audio encoder took no more than 40 minutes