Problem with recording DVB stream on DVDs

[Maxiuca]

Hi,

I have a similar problem that lusso has.
I have a SkyStar 2 card and I use ProgDVB to record the DVB streams from sattelite. I'm in Europe, so these are PAL streams.
I record them to PVA format and then demultiplex it in PVAStrumento.
Then I simply author the DVD using the MPV and MPA streams using DVD-lab or Scenarist (I've also tried Ulead MovieFactory 2). Sometimes I have to correct the GOPs to make them DVD compilant (but it's needen only for Scenartis and I use MPEG-VCR for it)
I tried channels with standart D1 (720x576) cropped D1 (704x576) and some not standart resolutions (lik 544x576).
Unfortunatelly in all cases the result is unplayable in two of my DVD players (Pioneer DV-454 and CyberHome 505). What's funny in most cases when the video starts only first frame is displayed and the audio playes fine. So i get a static frame with audio, but when I press the search (fast forward) button the players (again both) show the picture as if it was a playable DVD.
Sometimes (I mean with other channels) the player reacts fine, so there is both video and audio, but the video is very jerky and therefore unwatchable.


About my players:
Both play DVD-SVCDs (so 480x480 SVCD stream recorded and authored with a DVD authoring software)
Also both had no problems with playing Star Wars Trilogy made from German premiere DVB stream (704x576)
Both can play DVR+-/R/RW.

So my question is: what do i do wrong??

Or maybe I don't have much luck and both players are unable to play non-standart DVDs?

Please help.

Best Regards,

Maxiuca

[snoddas]

Hi Maxiuca,

try Xmuxer on http://www.elecard.com/download/ for your mux/demux/remux needs. It says "XMuxer (2.03) with function of remultiplexing from the PVA standard to the MPEG2 Program stream" even though I don't need to use PVAStrumento at all. After the demux, use IFOEdit http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/derrow/ and "Author new DVD". If the frame size is wrong, use a header patcher for frame size (check the download page on Doom9)

My DVB-rips play fine on my DVD using the above method. Let us know if you succeed.

[Millenod]

Hi,

I'm doing this with ProgDVB (I'm using MD9.3.5 in fact)

- record streams into DVB format
- use PVA2Mpg (with TechnoTrend drivers)
- Demux file using pvastrumento 2.1.0 rc5 and use these options :
* video : check correct; flag stream; adjust timecode
* audio : split output (the twice)
* expert : uncheck : analyze; strct checking; drop (x3)

I prefer unchek values in the "expert" tab, to don't loose the a\v synch.

(- optional : re-encode streams)
Then, use your demuxed files into your authoring program (dvd maestro for my part).

This works on my standalone DVD player (philips 710 patched as 170 pro; philips 711) and of course on my computers :D

[Maxiuca]

Hi,

thanx guys. What worked for me, was changing the recording program to SkyView (awfull menu structure and hard to learn, but can do miracles, like Picture-In-Picture, can record whole transport stream from one transponder, and also up to 17 audio streams at once, works also with 1 video stream and 2 or more audio streams, really kicks ass )

Anyway I've downloaded Project X (former ds.jar) and tried to demux the stream created by ProgDVB but it started to add 48ms of audio every 10 frames or so, which made the audio hard to listen. So I thought that maybe there's something wrong with ProgDVB... And aparently it was... The funny thing is that PVAStrumento cannot handle the PVA files created by SkyView

Anyway my path is now
1. SkyView - PVA file
2. Demux with Project X
3. Fix GOPs that are not DVD compilant with MPEG-VCR (to assure more compatibility)
4. Author

Now it works perfectly with my both DVD players :)

Thanx all!