[Roman Melekh]

Extract – DVDDecryptor.
It extracts by film/chapter/cell

Then
Video
1. You need Canopus ProCoder and convert your PAL to NTSC 23.98 (set option “get first nearest frame”)
You must encode new MPEG2 file WITHOUT change number of frames, ONLY chabge speed of playing

2. You need pulldown.exe – utility to convert 23.976 progressive source to 29.97 interlaced
OR
You can encode with procoder by setting “23.976->29.97 pulldown”

Note. You can change speed of video by using VirtualDubMod. VDM can save AVI files from MPEG2 sources, and change it’s speed without change number of frames

Audio
1. you need to decode audio to wave files and change speed to 25/23.976 – Samplitude Studio, Sound Forge, Wave Lab, Nuendo and many other
2. encode to AC3 by Sonic Foundry Soft Encode, Scenarist AC3 Encoder, Surrcore AC3 encoder etc.

If your PAL video interlaced, then you must transcode your video by
a) Software – Canous Procoder (slow and low quality result)
b) Hardware – you can find many transcoders with Google 🙂

if you have subtitles you must extract it by SubRip, then (like a sound) change speed.

After all you can author a new DVD-ViDEO disk 🙂

[Roman Melekh]

/Generally, stereo ac-3 runs at about 200Kb/sec; I run my 2/2 Dolby Digital audio at 320Kb/sec. A 5.1 file would probably need a bitrate around 400Kb/sec/

No 🙂
Stetreo AC3 must be about 192..256, no more needed
2/2 – 320 – ok
5.1 file MUST be encoded at 384 or 488

Formula for calculation streams/speeds:

4.700.000 – total DVD5 size
i.e. menu ~200 megs
then – 4700000 – 200000 = 4500000 – total space for videos/audios/subs
4500000 / film_length / 60 * 8 * 0.96 = total_bitrate_for_film
If have 2 sounds – stereo (192) and 5.1 (448) then need:
total_bitrate_for_film – 192 – 448 = VIDEO BITRATE
max_bitrate_for_film is 9800 – 192 – 448
min_bitrate_for_film is VIDEO BITRATE / 2

only this formula is right!

[Roman Melekh]

* does 5.1 mean that you are supplied 6 DIFFERENT tracks of audio or are they all combined into ONE ac3-5.1 file?

6 wav files or 5.1 already encoded AC3.

* Will file size be a problem if burning to a standard 4.7 gig DVD?
No, all be OK. You must encode your video with maxbitrate 9800_minus_AC3’s_bitrate

[Roman Melekh]

Try use Adobe Photoshop, this is help how to create 16:9 LB menus:

16:9 Menu Tracks
When 16:9 Widescreen content is played, DVD players automatically resize it for viewing on standard 4:3 televisions. In doing so, black bars are added at the top and bottom of the screen, so the image

[Roman Melekh]

I perfectly understand you.
But in Encore it will be extremely to make that the author asks.
In DVDLab – it is impossible.
Probably it is better way to buy once a program, and do in it all.

O! Where is author????
How he author project?

[Roman Melekh]

from Sonic Scenarist help:

Dual-Layer Discs
A singles-sided, single-layer DVD disc can hold up to 4.7 GB of content. For larger projects you can create a single-sided, dual-layer disc (8.5 GB), or even a double-sided, dual-layer disc (17.08 GB).

When creating dual-layer discs, you must specify the Layer Break that determines which files will reside on Layer 0 and which will reside on Layer 1. In Scenarist, you set the Layer Break by specifying the first file on Layer 1 of the disc. If you change your mind, you can subsequently remove the Layer Break. You can also jump to the Layer Break, which is useful if the project contains many files and you need to easily locate the file that contains the Layer Break.

Layer breaks – parallel or opposite:

Parallel The disc is formatted so that the data tracks of both layers are written from the disc center to the outer edge. This option provides slower transition times for playback across the Layer Break, since the DVD player drive head transitions from the outer edge of the first layer back to the disc center of the second layer.

Opposite The disc is formatted so that the data track for the first layer (Layer 0) is written from the disc center to the outer edge, and then continues with the second layer (Layer 1) from the outer edge back to the disc center. Select this option when you need the shortest interruption in playback across the Layer Break, since the laser beam transitions from the outer edge of the first layer to the outer edge of the second layer. When using Opposite, the size of Layer 1 must be smaller than that of Layer 0.

[Roman Melekh]

for static images + sounds with automatic commands for menus – maestro is best chice…
cost – hm… 🙂

your recomends:
– Encore
my test: encore crash after >400 still images, all versions

– DVDit
problem by problem…

– DVDLab
can’t work with still images correctly

???

ps: scenarist BEST, but mooore programming requred.
pps: i am use scenarist for all my projects, but for dummy menus/sound i use dvdmaestro

[Roman Melekh]

1st rule: NERO birning Rom CAN NOT write dvd9 images or VIDEO_TS forlder correctly!
Nero split large (8,5Gb) images by 50|50… It is not correct!

If you know, how many sectors in layer0, you can write your image by ImgBurn (dvd_decryptor’s son)
by setting Layer0 size.
If you not know layer0 size, you can write your VIDEO_TS folder by ImgBurn. ImgBurn can check IFOs, and correctly write files. ImgBurn will ask you – where you want set LayerBreak, and offer variations.
Attention! BEFORE you start recording you must set book-type for your DVD-Recorder
Book-type for +R DL disks must be DVD-ROM (see programs’s help).

I know – you can do it! 🙂

[Roman Melekh]

Try this:
https://www.intellidisc.com/quicklook.htm

[Roman Melekh]

*But being able to hardware encode will be the fastest way to speed up your process*

intel’s xeon 3.06 x2 CPU, HT enabled
windows 2003 server
CCE encoding is 3xReal-Time from uncompressed .mov 720x576x25