DVD-A | Enforcing Too Many Specs, Need an Override

gordonmcdowell wrote on 6/5/2003, 7:52 PM

Suggestion for DVD Architect that would make it much more useful to me.
Every time DVD-A sees that an audio or video stream is not meeting DVD specs, instead of forcing a recompress, GIVE THE USER AN OPTION TO BYPASS.
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-Allow MPG video of any format.
-Allow MPG audio, don't force it to AC-3.
-If AC-3 of strange data rate, sample rate is submitted don't force an audio recompress.
-If I dump autorun.inf files and the like into the DVD root folder before a burn, don't abort telling me there's files there. Ask me if I'd like to proceed anyway.
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Currently I am able to use DVD-A for only 1/3rd of my projects because of these restrictions. Please someone add an over-ride to these restrictions so we don't have to swtich authoring packages.
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Thanks, -Gord

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belial wrote on 8/6/2003, 4:49 AM

Well it would sure be nice if it could tell me whats wrong with my video stream that requires a re-rendering. (if it wasn't obvious I'm having the same problem here).

Because I simply don't want to re-render perfectly valid video with no reason (loosing video quality as a result), other apps don't make me do it, so I would sure appreciate it if DVD-A at least told me WHY it feels a need to re-render the video footage.

I also want to choose how I compress my footage. I currently choose to edit with Vegas, but I want to compress using TMPEGENC, it gives me more control, and I believe the final video quality is better.

I need to burn this disc tonight, so I'm biting the bullet and letting it recompress. but if I can't find a solution to this I am going to be throwing DVD-A into the bin, vegas video is great, but DVD-A goes, so does that (because if they arn't working on these problems, then they arn't customer focused enough, I'll consider it wasted money and move on).

Its a shame, it looked like such a good product, the menu creation side is great, its just a shame the actual creation of the disc ends up kicking the user in the ass and saying "ha ha! and you thought you'd found a product that worked perfectly didn't you! you should be so foolish, haha! I'm going to make your video look bad! now! sucker!"

I mean, its not like the video stream is even slightly unusual... its PAL Mpeg2, VBR 4000bps. The quantizing matrix's etc. are all normal, WTF won't it let me NOT recompress the damn video footage.

BillyBoy wrote on 8/6/2003, 8:55 AM

AFAIK there's only two reasons why DVD-A will warn it needs to re render a video file.

a. it isn't a compliant file.
b. your project is too big to fit on the DVD

If you use TMPEGnc, then export as AVI from Vegas. I'll assume you did.