Hi,
I don't know if any like this has happened to you, too.
I have encoded, edit, etc some files and burn them into a DVD-r. But, the thing is whenever i want to play with a DVD player it appears as "No Disc". I have already tried with 2 different DVD player, so i think it's not the player's wrong.

Anyway, could someone tell me what to do? Thx

It might be the discs. I have experienced this too with my Memorex DVD-RWs for some reason. Try buying another disc from the same pack. If it happens again, I suggest you demand a refund.

You're right it was my DVD-R media's problem. I've never thought about it.
Thank you so much

I try DVD author 1.6, can burn multiple .mpg to DVD-R disc, it video/sound is ok, but when it is play on a standalone DVD player , there is no sound, why and how to fix this ??

maybe your using an mp2 codec for audio and youe stand alone doesn't support it
AC-3 or LPCM will work on all players
some support mp2
check out www.videohelp.com/articles for help

Ok, thanks.

Some DVD-player can play with sound now. But I find some .mpg sound are out-of-sync (slower), some are ok. The source .mpg do not have problem (view in PC)?

How to resolve out-of-sync problem, need ripple sound track to .wav ?

Using TMPGEnc DVD writing tool in dvd author 1.5 or 1.6,
get the message "ordinal 3001 not found in module px.dll"
tried copying px.dll to dvd author directory and same thing.
Any ideas ???

I had the same problem with TEMPGEnc Author 1.6 when starting burning a DVD;

I got px.dll Version 1.8.34.500 from sonic solution and copied it into the programm folder of TMPGEnc and now it works fine (the dll in Windowssystem32 did not help!)

Is there a max file size that can be edited ? I have a 19 GB MPG2 file that's about 9 hours. DVD Author will only recognize the first 6 hours and 37 minutes.

JSN

The Limit is 8.68 GByte. The Maximum you can store on a Dual-Layer DVD.

Thanks. However, I routinely edit files as large as 15 GB. I'm not talking about how large a file can be burned, but rather, how large a file can be edited.

JSN

Use the Freeware MPEG2Schnitt or Cuttermaran for a propper MPEG2-Cutting/Editing.

Thanks, I'll check them out.

JSN

I've search the posts and I think I'm doing this correctly but can't get "play only first track" to work.
Have 2 clips. First one is an "intro" video and the second is main video divided into chapters.
I've got "Firstplay action" set to "Play only first track".
I've got "Action to take after each track....." set to "display track menu".
"Display menu settings" set to "only track menu" (get the same problem with Main menu selected).
Even though the "intro" track appears in the track menu as chapter 1 (which you can stop from displaying), I assumed it would play the "intro" track and then put up the title menu. It doesn't.When dvd file is played (in PowerDVD)it plays "intro" (chap. 1) but continues with the rest of the video and only at the end does it put up the title menu.
Tried all variations but can't get it to work.
Got any ideas?

Firstplay action - "Play only first track".
Action to take after each track - "Display Main Menu"

This works for me. It plays intro movie, then immediately goes to Main Menu. From Main Menu, you can hide the first "intro" track button, and only have the "second" track displayed. So it looks like one track on main menu.

How do you hide a track on the main menu?

I have DVD Author 1.6 and I'm looking for a solution where DVD Author automatically can insert for each scene a chapter in DVD-Menu.
It would save more time when DVD Author has a scene detection for chapters and after that I remove unwanted chapters.
Is there a solution ?

On my standalone DVD player (united) the main menu motion background is still, while all works well on my PC with PowerDVD. I'm using TDA 1.5.
Any idea? Thank you.

Buy a new Player, your's crap...

I've seen this problem with cheap, crap Players only.

I Installed The Ac3 Plugin But When I Goto The Options Enviromentals It Tells Me "Cannot Find The Dolby Digital Ac3 Encoder Installing The TMPGenc Sound Plugin In Ac3 Allows To Encode And Decode Dolby Digital Audio."

? What Am I Doing Wrong Or What Do I Need To Buy to Get This To Work?

Which Versions of TDA and AC3-Plugin?
TDA 1.6 needs the newest Plugin

I have a project that consists of four MPEG files. In TMPEG DVD Author, the size bar on the bottom tells me that the capacity of the burned DVD is 4173/4438MB

However, when I encode the DVD folder and try to burn it, I always get the message that the file exceeds the capacity of the DVD-R!

How is this possible that 500 megs are magically added? Particularly when the program tells me I'm okay? It shouldn't be doing any re-encoding, I unchecked the box to re-incode the audio on each of the video files. ANy ideas?

Spass

Does your DVD-R have enough room? The common ones has a maximum of 4.7GB. I know there are some that have a smaller capacity.

Yes, the DVDs all have enough capacity. Even if that was the problem, it does not explain why the TMPGEnc DVD ecoder is reporting the size of the burned DVD as 4.1 and then burning 4.5. It doesn't make sense.

Spass

Well, the ISOs and other DVD files adds more space. Try re-making your DVD by using this free Bitrate Calculator. It is bound to fit as long as you leave in a few extra minutes after inputting the movie's length.

http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

this is a related question of a newbie:
can anybody explain the SIZE BAR? does the full length correspond to 4.7G? what is the line near 4.4G?
Why does it say 4435? Why is the color red beyond that line?

Izzy

That's because the TRUE capacity of a DVD is 4.37 GByte, not 4.7 GByte. It's that old 1024 vs 1000 Problem...

And as a Tipp: Set the Min-Bitrate never at less than 1150 kbps. OK, the DVD-Standard does allowe Min-Bitrate at 0, but while Muxing, such Files will becoming larger (it's an internal muxong-thing, hard to explain, my english isn't good enough for that)

thanks,
Now that I have a file (mpg) that is 5366/4438, can I make it fit the capacity using tmpgenc by changing any parameter other then cutting pieces? or i must go back to other software?
Again - what does the vertical line in the size bar near 4.7G says? can I fill the bar to its end (inc red area?) or only the purple?
Izzy

I set the movable size bar to a filesize of 4448.whatever, and with no menus, my movies always fit on a DVD. At 4449, they fail.

Joe

I HAVE A SIMILAR PROBLEM I MAKE THE PROJECT JUST UNDER THE CUT OFF SAY 4373MB (4.3GIG) BUT WHEN I BURN THE DVD IT COMES IN AT 3500MB (3.5GIG). ANY IDEAS?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE. MAL

4.7 DVD-R is actually 4200MB or 4.2GB as displayed by DVD Author on the timeline. So Max is 4.2GB. Like someone else said, this is old conversion problem like hard drive manufacturers use for defining ONE MB. 1024KB or 1000KB.

your logic is wrong with this 1024 conversion. If that were the explanation, a 4.7Gb DVD should hold 4813Mb (1Gb = 1024 Mb thus 4.7Gb = 4.7 x 1024/1).

The answer must be some DVD formatting issue.

One thing that I notice though is that after I've added a file, DVD author seems to increase it's size by about 30Mb.

Makes it hard to calculate the encode when you have more than 1 file.

okay I was wrong. Thanks for pointing my mistake out.

I tried adding more files to DVD Author, just beyond 4438MB red line. It gave error message saying I went over the capacity. That the capacity of a 4.7GB DVD is about 4437MB.

TMPGenc red line is at 4200MB. So this gives the user a little room (237MB), to author the DVD and add menus.

So if you don't plan on adding menus, you should be able to set the estimated file size in TMPGenc to about 4438MB. But after encoding, the movie may be a little more in size, so I would choose a smaller size so it don't go over. Maybe 4350MB maximum?

the problem i'm having is that the capacity line at the bottom starts out with 530MB when i don't even have a file loaded. so i'm being cheated out of 530MB worth of space to use. anyone have any idea why this would occur?

How can i add music as the sound for the menu screen(s)?
And does anyone know how to make good back ground images which can line up with the button layout options, is there measurements for this?

For the menu music, please see this:

http://bbs.pegasys-inc.com/bbscgi/ebbs/board.cgi?board=tda&page=1#topic630

As for the background image, it's really not that easy. There should be an option where you can move the thumbnails around and make it smaller. It's not possible to remove the thumbnails at all.

I have some MKVs where it uses AAC audio instead of AC3. If I convert those to DVD, would TDA support AAC? If not, what should I do in order to keep Dolby Digital?

There's no support for AAC because AAC isn't Part of the DVD-Standard. Search for a good Tool to split the Audio-Parts in Channel-WAVs and encode them as AC3 by using BeSweet.

I am not familiar with AAC at all. I'm pretty sure it only has Dolby Digital Stereo, not 5.1 since it's not an action flick.

I have some satellite classes I have recorded that are 5 hours. I am trying out the Authoring version and love it. But, is there an easier way to have it determine how much goes on one DVD, then put the rest on a 2nd one?

Thanks for any help.
Wayne

Give MPEG2Schnitt a try. Best MPEG2-Cutting-Program out...