New tools yet?

[jeffspam]

Hey all... anyone heard of any news of any new or updated DVD authoring tools which can accept HD .ts's? I can't believe this stuff has been around so long, and we're still jumping through avisynth loops, demuxing ac3, etc. Sooner or later, HD capture cards will be selling for the $50 we're seeing 878-esque cards sell at today. The same decoder chipsets we're using in our set-top receivers will be used in our PCs, so we'll have the advantage of very high volume to lower prices.

Anyway, I've got a few HD .ts files I'm looking to (down)convert to DVD, so if anyone has any suggestions, please post them here. The easiest conversion so far has been from capture to HDTV2MPEG2 1.10b to Dr. Divx. But since Dr. Divx doesn't produce mpeg-2 output, it's not going to help me make a DVD.

Tips??

[eb]

to jeffspam,

You can try Power Producer 2 from Cyberlink, I'v got this program together with DVD recorder, but I hope that you can get 30-days try full version from their web.http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/download/download.jsp
There is no problem to produce full DVD together with menus,chapters, menu background music, trimming.

Only one problem when using HDTV records from Euro1080 there is no possibility to get end DVD material as 16:9 AR, but it can be latter easy way corrected by DVDpatcher. or by simple seting DVD player to 16:9 mode
HDTV records were made using SkyView program and SS2 card.

So, open Power Producer input recoded HDTV material/s/, in less then 1 minute you can setup menus,chapters,background music and then as result you have DVD image and/or burned DVD disk

eb

[GeorgeForeman]

for now I just bought a Gateway DVD burner. Its a nice addition to my tivo because I use the tivo to capture what I want, then play it back and use the 4 hour mode to burn it to DVD+RW from the tivo when I watch them.

This results in roughly a 2 gig vob for a 2 hour movie which is absolutely perfect for my tastes of getting my favorites reduced to the proper size for computer storage with still having good enough quality.

Very acceptable size/quality IMO with this method and I only need one DVD to accomplish the transfer. Having to watch every movie I transfer is a good quality check anyhow and gets me away from the computer =) I can now wait as long as needed for the tech to catch up to my wishes and with 200 gig drives going as low as $99 with rebates can store nearly 100 such movies on a single drive at a cost of $1 each and all perfectly legal.

[Backwoods]

TS to MPG2 from HDTVtoMPEG2

MPG2 in DVD2AVI2

D2V in Avisynth w/MPEG2Dec3.dll

AVS to CCE

Re-encode from CCE in DVDLab w/demuxed AC3


Far as I know, this is the only method to get the TS onto DVD.

[jeffspam]

Originally posted by eb
You can try Power Producer 2 from Cyberlink, I'v got this program together with DVD recorder ... There is no problem to produce full DVD together with menus,chapters, menu background music, trimming.


This is exactly the kind of news I was hoping for! I'm specifically interested in the "gold" version, which claims to be able to take in and spit back out AC3 (hopefully without processing!). I'll play with the trial and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the tip!

[eb]

@ jeffspam,

jeff wrotewhich claims to be able to take in and spit back out AC3 (hopefully without processing

so I hope that my second tip for you will be also usefull.

best for me tool for demuxing/spliting especially for AC3 from DVB records is nice tool called bbtool1.9 , you will find it here on this forum in dowload section.

General note: AC3 pid in DVB records mostly exists as Private Stream BD, and you can use bbinfo command to check it and get very interesting infirmations about your record and also using bbdemux you can split/separate AC3 stream data not processed, analising PTS data for first packets for video and audio you can determin delay of audio.

eb

[Backwoods]

What is the resolution of these TS files? I read them as being HD and that made me think they have to be re-encoded.

Maybe the guide from the front page will be helpful?

http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/dvbs-soft.htm

[jeffspam]

Originally posted by Backwoods
What is the resolution of these TS files? I read them as being HD and that made me think they have to be re-encoded.
In my case, I'm looking to downconvert from HD (1920x1080) to SD in order to make a disc which can play back in any ol' standalone dvd player. As it stands now, I haven't found an HD codec which will look good, play back on ~2GHz CPUs (without hardware acceleration), and give me a significant reduction in file size. I know... I'm asking the impossible! So for now, I'm ready to settle with converting my HD material to SD.