Oh the Joys of Rendering..

box532 wrote on 6/27/2003, 6:38 PM
Been a while since I was here... running into an old problem.

Have a video File... .m2v and a .ac3 file.

I Mux .m2v into a .mpeg file with TMPEG without the .ac3 file, creating a .mpeg without sound (you know the old 8G DVD it made with .ac3 included.)

So... open the program up... and load the .mpeg, associating the .ac3 with .mpeg to at sound.

So far... so good. Project size 3.6G.

Ad a back ground picture... nothing special. Go to make DVD and the damn thing was to re-render my "Video" file.. dispite the fact that it is only 3.6G.

I DON'T want to re-render the darn thing.. already spent hours doing that.

Any guess's out there?

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johnmeyer wrote on 6/27/2003, 10:44 PM
Click on the "Optimize DVD ..." option in the File menu. Click on the name of your m2v file. Make sure that "Recompress Video" is not checked.

You sound like you're pretty familiar with things, so you have probably already tried this. I just did a little experiment and found that a few of the mpeg files I randomly threw into DVD-A insisted on being recompressed: the "Recompress Video" option was grayed out when I clicked on them. I then loaded them back into TMPGEnc and looked very carefully at all the attributes. I found that one of them had the framerate set for film (23.976 fps). DVD-A cannot handle this framerate (cannot set the mpeg header flag). The 1.0b version and beyond can handle 24 fps, but not 23.976. My guess is that if you look at your template in TMPGEnc that you used to encode the m2v, it is using something non-standard. Try re-doing a small portion of the file using one of the TMPGEnc standard DVD NTSC (or PAL) templates.
box532 wrote on 6/28/2003, 8:47 AM
Hey John,

Yes... you can't "unclick" the old recompress button... :o(

I actually use CCE to to encode (not TMPEG)... which is great. I only throw TMPEG in the loop because Sonic will not take Elementry streams ... like Scenartist and other programs do. I need to create a .mpeg before doing anything in Sonic.

It's odd... normally has no problem with my video files ... just reminds me of the early days when it would create a 8G project because of a little old .ac3 file.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/28/2003, 2:17 PM
If the recompress is grayed out, then the answer will be to fiddle with the options in Scenartist. You want a totally "standard" group of settings.
box532 wrote on 6/29/2003, 3:38 PM
"Scenartist" is another Authoring program (that takes Elementry streams).

I assume you are talking about my Encoding (CCE)..
Thing is I've used these setting before... with no problem.

Oh well.