DVD Burning Help

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Originally Posted by tycho102

I have never used DVDshink.


You can always use a double-layer DVD and DVD-decryptor. That's what I use. It's nice because I can fast foward and play PAL movies, which are sometimes significantly different than the one released in NTSC. It's reported that DVD-d can't handle some movies but I haven't come across any of those.

And then you can re-code the thing with a better coder than what (apparently) DVDshink uses. Tmpgenc "DVD Author" has an excellent multithreaded MPEG-2 encoder and will ouput a DVD-video folder. There's regular Tmpgenc which will output a MPEG-2 video file. You'd have to get the AC3 plugin, or convert and mux it manually. I believe Nero will stuff a MPEG-2 stream into the proper VOB's and IFO's, but there are tools which will also do it. It's been too long since I've messed with that. Getting the audio over to either Layer-2 or AC3 is a must, because that really saves space for video bitrate. AC3 sterero does well at 160kbps, giving you another ~280kbps for your video.

Tmpenc works great, but is rather slow. Quality is not as good as CCE Pro but it does a way better job than DVDShrink.

I was thinking more along the lines of 'free'. Here is an alternative and is as good as Tmpenc - http://www.bitburners.com/HC_Encoder/

Another alternative - http://www.bitburners.com/QuEnc/

As for dual layer - media is still way more expensive than 4.37 GB, and it has compatibility problems on many stand alone players. I guess if you player sees it fine though, that is a good thing!

-S

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