[Daniel Ludwig]

oh damned – you´re right,
I thought it was for DVD SP 2 and newer as well. sorry.

so we need to go a different way.

here is the 1st script, that you need to link to from the language-select-menu, first button should be english, 2nd button should be italian, both buttons jump to this script.

with this script you set a specific value for for each language

value 1 for english, value 2 for italian.

language-ID-script:

1 mov GPRM0, SPRM 8
2 div GPRM0, 1024
3 jumbo main menu: button 1

next one will be the track selction-script, which will set the subtitle and jump to your specific title. all your main menu-button should link to that script

track-select-script
1 mov GRPM1, SPRM 8
2 div GPRM1, 1024
3 set system stream St(1 (On) if GPRM 0=1)
4 set system stream St(2 (On) if GPRM 0=2)
5 jump track 1::chapter1 if (GPRM 1=1)
6 jump track 2::chapter1 if (GPRM 1=2)
7 jump track 3::chapter1 if (GPRM 1=3)
….
x jump track x ::chapter1 if (GPRM 1=x)

you see that you need to jump to your specific tracks. button 1-track 1, button 2-track 2 and so on…

I hope this would help.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Ken,
why not exporting your AVCHD-film as HD-quicktime or AVI-file, then using MPEG Streamclip afterwards for the downscaling and do the encoding in an encoding-application like adobe media encoder (AME)? or maybe let AME encode it from the HD-quicktime/avi-file.

you´ll have a much better (and faster) result! exporting from an NLE-suite to MPEG2 is a pain!

MPEG Streamclip is freeware -just google for it – great swiss knife that used to be in every editors toolbox.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi again,
you should learn the basics first!

here´s a good website that can show it to you:
https://www.dvdstudiopro.ch/english/index.html

there is also a lot information within DVDSP user manual.

I guess that will help.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hey Ken,
I haven´t figured out so far, how encore is calculating the capacity of the entire disk, if it would calculate on 4.7GB or 4.39GB (logical bytes vs physical sectors), but if you say 4.4GB is to much, I guess it will calculate on physical sectors, meaning 4.39GB max for DVD-5.

as I´m a mac-user I know that 4.39GB is the max. capacity if you burn a DVD with toast on a mac-computer.

conclusion: you need to reduce your bitrate, but I would use VBR instead of CBR. if all your videos are 160min. you need to have 3.56Mbits as target-bitrate and you can choose 7.8MBit as max. bitrate if you have 192kbit/s dolby-digital audio.

2 1/2days encoding is quite a long time! what is the source-material and what kind of computer do you have? I have a 4core mac pro and an 8core mac pro, and it will need approx. half-real-time to encode such SD-MPEG2-file for DVD-authoring.

note: bitrates lower than 5MBit/s for video will have a poor quality.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi again,
if you are using sphericos Title Exchange Pro, and you can not import more than 50 subtitles you are using the demo-version.

if you have the licensed application it´ll export more than 50 subtitles per XML to STL.

another possibility is to use Annotation Edit from https://www.zeitanker.com

it´s a very good application, but it´s no freeware/shareware as well.

it could create a STL-file from FCP XML, if subtitle are created with FCP-text-tool.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Zeljko,
I would do this with scripting, that wouldn´t be that complicated. Your first menu-buttons (language-select) would jump to a script where you automatically set an language ID.

1st button would be english, 2nd italian. so you would get the button-ID out of SPRM8 and set it as a language ID to GPRM1.

1. move SPRM8 to GPRM1
2. div GPRM1 by 1024
3. jump to the next menu button no.1

you´ll need to divide GPRM1 by 1024 because otherwise you´ll get values like 1024 or 2048.

within the next menu you should link from every button to another script.

1. if GPRM1 = 1 then set subtitle/audio (english)
2. if GPRM1 = 2 then set subtitle/audio (italian)
3. jump film 1, 2, ….

if you´ll read out SPRM8 within this menu you can do a if GPRM2=1, 2, 3… then jump film 1, 2, … as well, but you need to keep the language ID, so you need to read out SPRM8 (again) to another GPRM, for example GPRM 2.

note: this is not the 100% correct syntax of DVD SP-scriping, but it´ll show you the way as it could be done.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi catherine,
to use WMV-files is a bad idea, WMV is a distribution-codec but NO postproduction-codec.

you need to think/care about butbudgeting, that´s the first thing you have to do if you´re starting to author a disk – that´s the calculation of the video/audio-bitrate depending on the capacity of your disk (DVD5 or DVD9) and your assets-running-time.

I know a few tools for MAC OS, you might google for some WIN-tools.

depending on this calculation you need to choose the transcoding-settings or create your own using adobe media encoder or the MPEG-2-exporter from premiere.

if you have 3h video and a single stereo-audio-track that will be transcoded to dolby digital@192kbit/s your video-bitrate will be 3.1MBit for a DVD-5, that´s very poor quality, you might go DVD-9, there you´ll have 5.8Mbit, that´s a lot better.

another advice: don´t use PCM-audio, use dolby digital instead. 90% of all DVD-playback-problems I´ve seen depending on PCM audio on DVD-R.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi,
you´re right, my sony-player have the button as well, but this is not obvious.

and according to sony-players, the PS3-remote haven´t got that function, only my BDP-350 have it.

and if you press the home-button it will bring you back to your players (software)-menu. if you hit the top-menu-button afterwards nothing will happen. You need to restart your BD, with the play- or OK-button and it would lead you to the first-play of the BD.

if you´re going to programm a BD with professional tools like scenarist BD or DoStudio all you can programm are top-menu-button, popup-menu-button and maybe the 4 colored buttons, and of course you can have access to the UOPs of play/pause, search/skip forwards/backwards.

so forget about the damned home-button!

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Shaun,
this could happen because of 2 reasons:

1.) the player
some players have a poor sync for the A/V-playback, so it needs a bit of time to sync the title that should be played.

maybe it´s an older player as well, it would need a bit longer, because the power of the laser will decrease as well.

2.) GOP
it is a good idea to have at least 1GOP black at the start of the film, not to start with the REAL picture at the very beginning of your track.

a GOP can be 12frames or a bit more depending on if you are PAL or NTSC.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Carlos,
the main question would be the resolution of the pictures!

if you have high-res-pictures, they are much to sharp for an SD-DVD – they will flicker, so you need to blur them a bit and the second problem is that pictures are too saturated – pictures are RGB 0-255, but video (YUV) is only RGB 16-235.

so you need to reduce the saturation as well.

cheers

danny