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I make short videos for local distribution. I would like to be able to trigger the copy inhibit for the 80% of my buyers that would rather purchase the content than go to the trouble to take it without offsetting my costs of my time/effort/equipment expenditures. I would like to dupe to VHS and DVD-R and +RW.
Can anyone tell me how to do this or where to find how to do it?
(Macrovision isn't an option because of my small quantities and my desire to dupe inhouse for ultra quick turnaround)
I wouldn't bother trying to protect the disks as it will just be a waste of your time and effort.
I have researched many of the so called protection programs out there, but none of them really work to well and all of them rely on the copier to be pretty dumb.
Anybody who is willing to make an illegal copy of someone elses material doesn't usually have to look far to find the right software to do it and have usually done it before. The software only protects the actual disk itself not the content.
By this I mean that if you did happen to use one of the programs to add protection to a disk and someone decided to copy it, they may recieve an error when they do a 1:1 copy, but there is absolutely nothing stopping the user from simply copying and pasting the actual content of the disk to another location.
The other thing is that if someone is intent on copying your material, there are many programs out there that will easy break the protection on the disk and still allow a 1:1 copy and most if not all burning programs are able to break this protection.
I suppose the best solution would be to encrypt the data on the CD which would require the user to have a key to decrypt the data. Ther is a program called Encryption Plus which is able to do this which will place a small key on the users PC which will allow the Disk to be viewed as normal, unauthorized users will not be able to view the disk.
Just looked at your post again and realise you want to author to DVD and VHS.
I think you are going to find it very difficult to find any protection for this, even DVD's own propriertry protection is useless, so what hope is there of 3rd party softare being able to accomplish this.
As ASHY says, DVD copy protection has been brocken, with the copy disabling software being updated in a reactive manner as new DVDs are released. It is, however, possible to construct a DVD, which although can be hacked, would not be easy to rip (copy) without a great deal of time and effort.
If you're new to DVD authoring here's an article, about a year old now, but still valid, which might shed some light on the authoring process:
Before you flame me, I have already tried the VFAPI Environmental Settings option that has been suggested many times, but it did not fix anything.
I used to be able to open MPEG-2 files just fine, and then all of a sudden, it stopped working. I may have caused it by installing an additional codec, but I've tried removing every mpeg player I can find, but I still can't fix the problem. Does anyone have a suggestion?
I would be interested in knowing another solution ...
I had this problem when I upgraded from 2.56 to 2.57. 2.56 can open my MPEG2 files, but 2.57 cannot. I have an MPEG2 Codec (PowerDVD XP). Perhaps I need to reinstall PowerDVD? I too have not had success with changing environmental settings.
Thanks to your help, I now have incredible quality for a 2 hours movie. But now, it seems I have some problems with sound. I encoded from a divx file. I first extracted the .wav with VirtualDub using 44100, 16 bits and stereo (to be clear: cd quality). Then I normalized the sound using NormalizeGUI. But after encoding the sound has some strange "metallic" noise. I tried with different higher bitrate, I get the same results... do you think I should use a better MP3-layer2 encoder. If yes, which one do you use and if not, how do you procede...
Are you useing Tmpgenc to encode the audio???There are other audio encoders that you can use with in Tmpgenc, and you can get a sameple rate converter for tmpgenc also pluss you can Normalize with tmpgenc too. The other audio encoders for Tmpgenc are much better than the one that is in Tmpgenc, the two that I have tried that are good are "Toolame" and "SCMPX" you can find them on any search engine and you install them in tmpgenc by going to "options" to "enviromental settings" to "External tools" and then just "Browse" for the encoders "exe" file and that is it.......
Extract the audio again with Virtualdub, but this time make sure you check the 'High quality' box.
There is no need to normalize the sound with 3rd party software, both Virtualdub and TMPG can do this.
Thank you I tried Toolame and the sound is really nice now... I dunno if it's Toolame or not normalizing the sound as ASHY said but I think using the two ways is not so wrong...
Just wanted to add, that after I create my wav file with Virtualdub, that I use toolame gui and create a MP2 file before using tmpgenc. This way I have the option of changing settings if I want, but usually I make them the same as Tmpgenc does when it uses Toolame, which are the defaults except for :
-m for 's' stereo
-p for psychoacoutics model 1
-d for de-emphassis:n
-e for add error protection (CRC)
These settings can be saved in the toolamegui.ini file which also allows for batch processing and runs faster and smoother than when it does in Tmpgenc. Tmpgenc then just does the encoding and I point the audio to the newly created MP2 file.
The big thing is that if there are problems with the audio, I know them before hand and if something messes up later and I have to repeat the encoding, the audio file had already been created so I don't have to run it again.
You can find the free toolame gui at the "gui guy's" web site: http://guiguy.wminds.com/downloads/toolamegui/. Just make sure that you have toolame.exe in the same directory as where toolame gui is installed.
If anyone cares, here is what the contents of my toolamegui.ini file looks like to create the exact settings the Tmpgenc does when it calls Toolame.
Recently, TMPG started saying that all output, no matter what template-mcf file I load, the output will be like 20349203492GB... It gives a huge output filesize no matter what source MPG file I use, or what template I try!!??
Never had this before, and it just started recently?
I am trying to encode a MPG that was off of a DVD, and encode it with like a Kvcd or CQ template but having the same issue..
Thanks for any help
Ross
I guess you get this problem when useing the Wizard so just don"t use the wiZard cuz if you are useing CQ then the file size prediction will not be accurate anyways, as long as you can encode your files properly It doesn"t seem like a very big problem.......
>Why do some movies read much larger than real size??? For example: a movie thats 120 mins reads that its 384. Ok the movie Oceans 11 is, 1h and 56 min (690mb 1 disc/file) TMPG reads it as 381 mins or 6hrs 35 min. The movie Kiss of the dragon is 1hr 38min (698mb 1 disc/file) and TMPG reads it as 256min or 4hrs 26min. Both are divix. Is it a TMPG bug? Something not yet supported? Or am I missing a setting?
I begin in data processing, in particular for encoder of films. I succeeded in passing from the DIVIX to the MPEG, but the problem, it is that I do not manage to obtain from sound.
Thank you for your assistance because I have really difficulties in find the solution.
The problem is that your Divx file have a unsupported audio format, you will need to extract the audio from your divx file to a wav file with "virtual dub" and use the wav for your audio source, but if the audio is AC3 then you will need an AC3 decoder to extract the audio to wav........
If the movie is whit ac3 sound you just go to
Option / Environmental setting / vfapi plug-in
Locate the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader
Right click on it and add a higher priority like 1 or 2
Can someone point me to documentation about the Deinterlace options?
The filter selection tool works fairly well but slight flaws in motion still seem to show up in the final product even with nothing visible in the TMPGenc viewer screen.
Deinterlace filter options include Even Field, Odd Field, Adaptation, Double, and the children of all these options.
VirtualDub + selected plugins has much better deinterlace options. Use built-in (blended) deinterlace for low motion footage or Smart Deinterlacer (interpolated) followed by Hi Quality Smoother if non-blurry still frames are required.
The latter method is slow but produces unbelieveable results on clean video (set motion threshold low in the deinterlace options). You essentially end up with 30fps progressive video at a high shutter speed.