Is this another DVDA bug?

farss wrote on 12/20/2003, 3:40 PM

Trying to create a 21 minute menu background for DVDA. Motion backgrounds have to be less than 1GB, bitrate calcs tell me I can achieve this at 5.5 MBits / sec, adding up file sizes of mpeg and ac3 files tells me I'm well under 1 GB yet DVDA will not mux files as it thinks I'm over the 1 GB limit, it thinks I'm at 1.4 GByte.
Very frustarting as serious money involved.

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farss wrote on 12/20/2003, 4:26 PM

OK,
too much stress causes brain death. Obviously DVDA has to do the encode of the motion menu itself to overlay the buttons etc. Fair enough I guess. So there's no point encoding to mpeg as it'll have to re encode that which isn't a good idea, better to just feed it the avi to start with.
Only issue I have with this is I then have no control over how it does the ac3 encode (I think that's the case, maybe it'll still use the ac3 file I feed it), if I go to PCM where it doesn't matter so much I have to drop the mpeg bitrate even lower.