Hi Dave.
No Telestream. Just used compressor to encode a standard MPeg2 Program Stream for broadcast. This is the same encoding settings I use for delivering Standard Definition spots for broadcast. It’s VBR with a top data rate of about 23Mb/Sec. All I did different was to add the .scc file to it before encoding. The files playback without issue, including the closed captioning, on my Mac using either Quicktime Pro7 or VLC Player. If I look at the file on the data DVD, in the Mac, it shows the correct 4.3Gb size. When I put the DVD in my (or any) Windows machine, the file on the DVD is showing only 1.99Gb. It will play, with captioning but only the first half of the show will play. This is the same exact DVD in both cases. For some reason, the entire file isn’t showing up or being accessed by the Windows computers. I’ve tried it on a machine running XP Professional, Vista and Windows 7. They all show the same information-1.99Gb. Its gotta be some Windows “gottcha” at work here.
There shouldn’t be a file-size limit to a data DVD similar to a disk formatted as FAT-32? The 1.99Gb size is a little suspect. The info is there on the file. The Windows machines just don’t recognize it.
E=MC2+/-2db