dvd-video burning questions...

[NiX]

hi...I use toast titanium to burn my DVDs but for some reason it's re encoding it in PAL...how come it does this to some videos and some not? How do i make it not do that? is there any other software I can use?

[Henjie]

Originally posted by NiX
hi...I use toast titanium to burn my DVDs but for some reason it's re encoding it in PAL...how come it does this to some videos and some not? How do i make it not do that? is there any other software I can use?

What exactly are you burning? VIDEO_TS folders? VOBs? AVI/DivX files?

My guess is that you're burning AVI/DivX files. Do note that Toast Ti can't convert from one video standard to another. If the original file is in PAL format, Toast Ti will automatically switch to PAL when encoding. Same thing with NTSC.

What you can do is use ffmpegX to reencode the AVI/DivX files (or MPEG, MOV, etc. etc.) to DVD by doing the following:

- fire up ffmpegX;
- open the file you want to reencode;
- select a save location for the resulting file/s;
- select the DVD mpeg2enc or DVD ffmpeg (faster) quick preset;
- select the required framerate for the resulting file/s (Video -> Framerate);
- under Tools, make sure "Author as DVD (VIDEO_TS) is checked;
- uncheck "Keep elementary streams";
- encode;
- burn the resulting VIDEO_TS folder using Toast's Data -> DVD-ROM (UDF) option to prevent Toast from reencoding the file (just drag the entire VIDEO_TS folder to the Toast window).

You can also mess around with some of the ffmpegX settings if you want to. The ffmpegX website has explanations on each one. Good luck! :-)


~Henjie

[NiX]

yupz, you're right I was trying to burn AVI/DIVX files...

thanks Henjie...I will try this out later when I get home.

[mazystarr]

Not to hijack the thread but this seems to be the most appropriate place to post.

I've been trying to play DVDs authored from Adobe Encore and burned on a Pioneer AO6 with little success on an iMac G5.

The movies pixelate periodically and the motion is staggard (like a posterize time filter was applied all throughout the video). However the videos play fine on a set top dvd player as well as my pcs.

I surmised that this was because I burned with a pc and proceeded to burn a disc image of the project using the iMac's dvd burner. I burned at 4x and 1x speed. Still with the same result.

I have used Ridata, Iomega, Vertex(?) and CDrKing DVD-R discs.

Could it be the optical media? Or something else?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[mazystarr]

problem solved.

i downloaded a free player (vlc) and everything works fine now.
hooray for freeware!

[ratburn]

Originally posted by Henjie

Originally posted by NiX
hi...I use toast titanium to burn my DVDs but for some reason it's re encoding it in PAL...how come it does this to some videos and some not? How do i make it not do that? is there any other software I can use?

What exactly are you burning? VIDEO_TS folders? VOBs? AVI/DivX files?

My guess is that you're burning AVI/DivX files. Do note that Toast Ti can't convert from one video standard to another. If the original file is in PAL format, Toast Ti will automatically switch to PAL when encoding. Same thing with NTSC.

What you can do is use ffmpegX to reencode the AVI/DivX files (or MPEG, MOV, etc. etc.) to DVD by doing the following:

- fire up ffmpegX;
- open the file you want to reencode;
- select a save location for the resulting file/s;
- select the DVD mpeg2enc or DVD ffmpeg (faster) quick preset;
- select the required framerate for the resulting file/s (Video -> Framerate);
- under Tools, make sure "Author as DVD (VIDEO_TS) is checked;
- uncheck "Keep elementary streams";
- encode;
- burn the resulting VIDEO_TS folder using Toast's Data -> DVD-ROM (UDF) option to prevent Toast from reencoding the file (just drag the entire VIDEO_TS folder to the Toast window).

You can also mess around with some of the ffmpegX settings if you want to. The ffmpegX website has explanations on each one. Good luck! :-)


~Henjie

when i did this, the file was encoded to .mpv and not with the folders video_ts. although there was one file that came out this way. i chose DVD ffmpeg, NTSC film, made sure "Author as Dvd" is checked and unchecked "keep elementary streams". can't figure it out. i'm a newbie so pardon my ignorance of things.