DVDA 2.0 is recompressing my video files

Cunhambebe wrote on 5/22/2004, 1:21 PM
I know this may not be the right place for this post, but it's very important, really. Before, with DVDA 1.0 everything worked out well. I had a project made up of 2 menus (a main menu and a submenu) + 5 video files (4 of them rendered as MPEG2 with TMPGENC, the other one as DVDA NTSC video stream). The project there, rated 5,5 GB. OK, no problem. I used to prepare the DVD and then later, after preparing all files (it took only 20 minutes - some warnings such as preparing video object one, two, etc), of course the project wouldn't fit on a 4,7 GB disc. Then, I opened DVD Shrink, to obviously shrink whatever I wanted, made a backup and the the folder was ready! All process would take about 40 minutes. I said 40 MINUTES.
Now DVDA 2.0 has changed everything. There are some problems. Same project described above rates 7,0 GB (very strange). As I prepare the same project (previously saved as DVDA 2.0 file) DVDA 2.0 says all the video will be recompressed what will take more than 5 hours (with an Athlon 1.7 xp) according to the applc!!!!!

The thing is: I just wanna know if there's something wrong with DVDA 2.0 or if it doesn't accept TMPGENC rendered MPEG2 files anymore.

THANKS IN ADVANCE

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Cunhambebe wrote on 5/22/2004, 2:12 PM
Hi there! Thanks for the valuable help, again!
I'll try to follow those directions.
Cunhambebe wrote on 5/22/2004, 10:15 PM
Some more things I've noticed with DVDA 2.0.
When u have 2 motion menus, a main one and a submenu, the function <menu lenght> <auto calculate> does not work out properly for the submenu MPEG2 file since it auto calculates its wrong size (bigger than the file is). That of course leaves a dark screen at the end of the motion menu when you choose for <End Action>, <Command> <Loop>. I've already checked out the MPEG2 file size with Vegas. It is 00:08:14,150 while the auto calculate function shows and make the final position at 00:08:15,328. Is this a bug?