Eric Pautsch
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Your referring to a Replicated Disc. These are disc that have been phyically pressed rather than “burned”. given better reflectivity thus better compatibility amoung more players.
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If I had to make a choice I’d go to the guy with the Scenarist. Maestro is a fantastic system but it’s still an abstraction layer tool and has some history.
In case you didn’t know…Spruce was bought by Apple and folded Maestro into DVDSP. Scenarist is a spec level tool. Several years back I worked for a company who authored the european version of a title with Maestro. Long story short…many discs were being returned with issues related to its abstraction layer. This, coupled with the lawsuit by Sonic, brought a quick end to Spruce.
A better way to go would be to get references from both companies – get output from a third party.
4000 discs is a small run so I doubt you’ll see any returns weather it be authored with Scenarist or DVDSP or Maestro. However, disc authored CORRECTLY in a tool like Scenarist will show better playability over a greater range of players throughout the world – This has been well documented.
Just remember – its not the authoring app you need to worry about – it’s the range of players sold to consumers throughout the years. Some are good, some bad, some are cheap and have had corners cut to get them out the door. The DVD Forum has not done a whole lot to control player specfications, only authoring and replcation specs. – a major mistake IMO.
The reason why you were having problems on your play station was because they were DVD-R? Whats was your bit rate on those discs? Did you use AC3 Audio? Cheap Media? Have you has issue with replicated discs on those players? Most likely is wasn’t anything to do with which authoring app you used.
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DVD only supports MPEG 2 or MPEG 1
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https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=111#111
Ive always used MPEG StreamClip on the mac so I can’t give you much more advice.
Try a couple a see which one works best for you.Have Fun
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It all depends on how much video you have. For me, anything under 90 mins, I use CBR ALWAYS.
Also always use AC3 audio. It takes up less bandwidth.
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Which encoder are you using? An IVT pass is only neccessary to save space on redundant frames and only available to high end encoders – it won’t make the picture any better looking if that’s what your thinking 🙂 Your QT with the 3:2 will be just fine – just let the encoder know its NDFTC. Then make those subtitles file conform to NDFTC.
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Hi Dan
Yes you can take a look at a DVD “inner workings” – Try this app. if you have a mac:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=myDVDEdit
It takes some knowledge of the DVD spec to understand but with some time you’ll see how those games work.
Also be warned that defeating the CSS on a disc is illegal and not supported here.
Come back and ask more question if you like.
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You would have to design the menu like the original Flash game. Then, when the user selects the correct button, have it jump to a track of the movie.
DVD authoring is much too complex to provide all answers on a forum. Do a search for some tutorials.
Also check out these books:
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You could try DVD-Lab Pro
https://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabpro.html
Not sure what else to say. I can say I’ve been using DVDSP for several years now and if I had 1 of 5 DVDs returned I’d been out of business long ago 🙂
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Or even your bitrates and the kind of audio your using?