DVB to DVD

Nick Ball wrote on 10/19/2007, 4:50 PM

I've had a digital TV card for a few years now, and have in the past used Project X and TMPEGDVD to create the odd dvd of a recording. Sometimes it complains that the video stream is not compliant - usually because of a long gop. I really want to use DVD Architect, but it always wants to recompress both video and audio! My video is 720x576 PAL, as are my project settings. Is there a way of telling DVD Architect to ignore the fact that the Video is non-compliant (every DVD player I've tried copes just fine)...

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TOG62 wrote on 10/19/2007, 11:46 PM

Is there a way of telling DVD Architect to ignore the fact that the Video is non-compliant

I don't think so but I believe that Video ReDo can rapidly convert to compliant format.

Mike

Nick Ball wrote on 10/20/2007, 4:47 AM

Video Redo doesn't seem to help - unless there is a magic setting I'm missing. The video still says 'non-compliant'.

Waiting 2 hours to render is a pain...

TOG62 wrote on 10/20/2007, 4:53 AM

Sorry, no idea then.

Mike

Nick Ball wrote on 10/20/2007, 10:39 AM

Found out that VideoRedo will let you change the GOP in the save options - this does introduce artifacts... but does speed the process up. I would really like Dvd architect to just ignore the long gop and get on with it...

TOG62 wrote on 10/20/2007, 11:00 AM

That's worth knowing. I've never had occasion to play with the save options.

Cheers
Mike

MPM wrote on 10/21/2007, 9:01 AM

Head over to the forums at places like videohelp.com... You'll find loads of advice, answers, tools etc. to get your video fixed before you import it. Unfortunately with DVB there's no one-size-fits-all cure or process, so it might take a bit of reading and trial & error. OTOH when you're done you have something that most all players should handle -- there are specs re: DVD compliant mpg2 for a reason.