I've been told that this is a great program to use to burn mpegs off of my hard drive onto a dvd to play in my stand alone. I haven't had much luck with it as every time I try to bring in a clip, I get an error message saying: "A video sequence error is necessary for every GOP in a standard DVD." I can't get past this. Think there might be anything wrong with the program itself? Or am I missing something? Have pity! Riz
Righty-O, First off, not ALL MPEG 2 files are DVD-Compliant. DVD standard MPEGs are a sub-set of MPEGs, to rigid specifications. GOP stands for Group Of Pictures. The MPEGs you have are probably streaming MPEGs, and have no GOP structure within them, or the GOP structure is out-of-standard. You could use TMPGEnc (the encoder, not the Authoring) to change them to the correct structure. Read the help in DVD Author, and read some guides. if you need any more help, just yell, OK. Have Fun...
Thanks much, Dude! I've been able to successfully convert mpegs to the format that I need! One more problem to conquor tho...the movie is only 1 hr and 48 minutes but it exceeds the capacity of the DVD. Any way to shrink it down? Riz
riz513ca, if your authored movie is about 4.3GB-4.4GB, it will fit in a DVD-R. When you encoded the mpg to dvd with tmpgenc, the panel would have told you if the authored file fits on a standard dvd-r. If the file size is too big to fit, use DVD Shrink to compress it a little, just enough to fit. You can find DVD Shrink in this website (http://www.afterdawn.com)
Thanks Ken, That did it! Still a bit in the dark tho cause TEMPGEnc didn't tell me it was oversize but when I put it into the TEMPGEnc DVD Author it did. DVD shrink worked tho and I was able to burn the disk from there. I appreciate the help! Thanks again! Riz
Riz, I've been getting some great help from Dr Chips, but since I've been bugging the heck out of him, thought I'd ask you directly; WHAT exactly did you do to resolve the GOP problem? I can't seem to get past that in DVD Author. I appreciate any suggestions! -Spauld ps- don't know how I ended up in the other forum....I clearly belong HERE in the "newbie" threads!
Hey Spauld, Incredibly frustrating, I know! Anyway, one of the things I did was reinstall my TEMPGEnc DVD Author. After doing that, even tho I got errors, a small window would open up and provide me with details on it. The big fix for me was to encode whatever noncompliant clips I had with TEMPGEnc. Step one was to use the wizard, select NTSC under DVD on the far left, then I would select "CBR MPEG-1 Layer II Audio (MP2) in the other little blank to the right. Click on "Next". The little window will change and it will say "Select Source File". I just clicked on the Browse button beside the video file, selected whatever clip I wanted. The other three blanks on that screen had Non-interlace, 1:1 VGA and Video movie on 'em. Click on next. Filter setting will pop up. Click on next. Another little window will pop up that says " Information". This little window, I'm guessing, tells you that you can adjust the size of your video to determine how much disk space it takes up, still experimenting with it myself. Click on OK to get rid of it. The bitrate box should pop up. Video res should be 720x480, average video bit rate will set itself, if you play with it you will notice the capacity of your DVD go up or down. The auto setting generally takes care of it for you. Audio bitrate seems to take care of itself and the estimated file size seems to do the same. I'm told that for the best quality, you are to adjust the final blank..the one where is says.."makes file size (then some numbers) % of disk capacity...to 98 or 99% of the disk capacity. You'll see the little blue bar at the bottom of your screen grow or shrink depending on what you do. Click on next...Specifying output name will come up. Directly under output file..click the little box that says "output video and audio as individual elementary streams"...click the other little box that says "start encoding immediately". The program should then start to encode your video...when it's done..you will have 3 separate files in your directory including the one you started out with. The other two files will b a .m2v and a .mp2 suffix. Now go back to DVD author. Start your project, click add files and then select the one you've encoded that has the m2v suffix. The program should do some cool stuff and everything should work from there. Let me know if this works for you. Riz
Hi Riz, Just picked up your message this morning. I appreciate the detail! "Somehow" I was able to get past the GOP problem this weekend (I worked with TMPGEnc most of Sunday!).... but I am still having problems with significantly reduced resolution (the whole reason I am converting my files to MPEG-2 in the first place!). Tonight I will follow your instructions step-by-step to see if I can get an acceptable final product. Thanks again, I'll let you know how it turns out. -Spauld
