Eric Pautsch
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Sorry..misread your post. Which of thier products are you using? What don’t you like about the encode? Are there any scenes which might give encoders some problems (fast edits; quick flucuations in video levels, ect) Your settings sound good except the high setting. You can forced “I” frames in there top end encoders. If you have the space – consider a CBR encode as well.
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Hard to say without seeing your source. What is your source and how long is the video? I can say the max of 9 is way too high and .05 to way to low. Avoid going over 8 – lower if you can. Your allowing your encoder to go to .05 – that will give you results you won’t like at all.
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Thanks Jim!
That was the tutorial I was looking for but settled for Alex’s.
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eDVD is about your only reliable bet in including this functionality on the ROM side of the disc. You could include a Flash or Director application to do this – similar to a flash site and use eDVD to access this portionn of the disc.
Here’s a good eDVD tutorial for V3:
https://www.sfbaaug.org/tutorials/sonic_edvd.html
This will, however, only work on a computers. Set tops cannot access DVD-ROM material.
Good Luck
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We need more info. You say you used Popcorn. Did you try Toast? What are the errors you get from DVDSP?
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No…Universal uses Deluxe Studios for thier compression work. They use a system built by Toshiba which is prioritory.
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Be careful…not to many authoring platforms are ready for HD-DVD/BR authoring at this point. DVDSP will author HD-DVD but playback is shotty at best on players and there is no interactivity. you can play out from a G5 but still no interactivity. I believe DVDit has a Blu Ray authoring package but haven’t tried it yet. Not sure how interactive you want your title but this is something that just not possible right now unless you want to spend 10s of thousands of dollars – and even the high-end sytem has tons of bugs.
Maybe you could play your HD footage from a deck while giving the SD disc to the audience.
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1. There are spec level tools such as Scenarist NT which allow the author to use the DVD spec in anyway they see fit. DVDSP is an “abstraction layer” tool – much of the work involved is hidden from the author. To get from point A to point C DVDSP must go to point B first. In a spec level tool you can go from point A to point C directly – hope this make sense.
2. You’d be surprised how many titles are authored in DVDSP – several thousand.
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https://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=952
https://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials.html
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https://www.limerickstudios.com/ – great work!
DVDSP is a great program. Its abstraction layer is larger than it should be but with newer players it’s compatabilty has improved greatly.
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Yes this is the case I’m afraid. DVDSP, ULead, and now DVDit HD have provided a low cost alternative but none offer the advanced interactivity which makes the new spec unique. In addition non of these program are not suitable for professional work for many reasons. It was the same way when SD discs were starting to be authored back in the 90’s (geez, did I just say that?) – way out of reach to the common folks.
In reality, one could say HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray is an unfinished spec. Engineers and programmers are learning as they go. Problems continually show up. So unless it’s a hobby, Sonic is just about your only solution at this point
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No..I’m afraid not. BTW, which authoring platform are you using?