Video Ts files in DVD STudio

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Video Ts files in DVD STudio

I have these high definition .avi files that turn out looking looking pixalated after I author a dvd in dvd studio pro. So i searched around and I hear it is better to encode your movie files in another application being that the compresser/encoder in dvd studio is not that good. So I chose FFmegx to do my encoding. Now that I encoded it in FFmpegx, I have a video TS file.

Here is the question:

I want to import my Video Ts file into DVD SP without DVD SP encoding it all over again and making it look pixelated. I want to put menus and stuff on my movie but I want FFmpegx to be the application that encodes my .avi to Video Ts. How is this possible?

powerbook, Mac OS X (10.3.9), great computer

Posted on Aug 19, 2006 12:58 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 19, 2006 3:54 AM in response to Thunderkat211

Hey Thunderkat,

DVD Studio Pro can't import compiled DVD's (i.e. Vob files)
You would have had to encode your clip to a "real" mpeg2 file and not Mpeg-TS

FFmpegx offers an vob demux which would also be very handy for but the problem is, if you have a long video clip the the DVD seperates your video (because of a size limitation of the DVD vob files)

just re-encode your clip to a file with the ending m2v (only video) or mpeg.

DVD Studio Pro won't reencode your video if it is within the DVD Standards.

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Answer 2

Silal

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Aug 19, 2006 6:42 AM in response to Thunderkat211

Hi,
If the material in the VIDEO_TS folder is your own (other way you are not allowed to do so!), you can use MPEG Streamclip to extract the video and audio from the VOB files to the basic streams again (i.e. MPEG2 and AC3 files), without any quality loss or reencode.
You can import those files into DVDSP and author your DVD.

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Answer 3

Aug 20, 2006 1:11 PM in response to Silal

Ok I tried to use that "mpeg streamline" for an easier way to encode my video but under the FILE tab "convert to mpeg2" is grayed out....meaning I cannot execute that function. I have ffmpegx but I dont know what to set the settings to. When i encode stuff in ffmpegx i set it to mpeg2 but half time it makes a Video TS file instead of an M2v file. I am so lost at this encoding stuff. So my question is for those who know how to use ffmpegx or streamline. And after I encode it do i click on BUILD in DVDSP or FORMAT? Sorry for all the questions but encoding issues tend to do that.

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Answer 4

Aug 21, 2006 3:31 AM in response to Thunderkat211

thunderkat:

i hate to tell you this, but you're heading down the wrong path here. you're encoding and re-encoding using Streamclip (not streamline). ultimately, this will result in a really poor-quality DVD.

as was stated above, you want to start with the original .avi file and use FFmpegx to produce an MPEG-2 video file that is between 4-6Mbps data rate. this should import into a DVDSP project just fine.

the differences between Build and Format are clearly explained in the DVDSP manual.

scott

PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7) MacBook Pro 2.0GHz

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Answer 5

Silal

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Aug 21, 2006 1:27 PM in response to Thunderkat211

By the way, what codec qre those AVI files? Aren't you trying to encode some DivX files to create a DVD?

For hep on ffmpegx you better use their own online Forum.

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