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...

I like TMPGENC DVD author for its simplicity. However I would like to be able to select certain track menus to be OFF (not shown) whilst allowing others to be visible.

e.g. My holiday movies DVD's usually need just a main menu entry when they consist of a single day. For a weeks holiday I want the holiday to appear in the main menu and the track menu to let me select days / events.

I would also like a play first track then show main menu option without having to resort to the work around.

R

How about a "plug-in" that replaces the "Chapter cut edit" and
the other "Edit" functions with the new Smart Rendering MPEG
Editor? Maybe at half the cost of the stand alone Editor? Or
maybe such a function could be like the AC-3 Encoder and if
you buy the stand alone Editor the Edit features of the DVD
Author would be updated.

I think this is only fair after you pulled the "Merge&Cut" from
the 3.0 Xpress.

Luck;
Ken

Is there any way to build the title menu page without a "Play All" button? If not, is there any way to make the first title listed as the default selection when a DVD is inserted? It's much more ackward to have Play All selected as you then need to navigate backwards to get to the first title.

There is a plug-in for VirtualDubMod that is called "RegionRemove"
that appears to copy/clone pixels from the edges of an area to fill
that area. In this way you can define that area so that it covers
something you want to remove ( like the pop-up adds TV Stations
add to shows after commercials) and it will write over the area
with a clone of the pixels from the edges. This will usually have
the effect of making the unwanted text/pop-up seem to disappear,
leaving a slight blur in some cases.

This would be a great feature to have in the new MPEG Editor.
Or perhaps an image "clone tool" for touching up frames, could be
added to the editor. These features would be especially useful in
a "Smart Rendering" editor. It would certainly add value to the
Editor and could be a very persuasive reason to select this one
over competing software.

I would like to burn movies w/ this software to a DVD-RAM. Is this possible?

I can get tmpegdvdauthor to author my svcd 408x408 to a dvd but i have to patch the header of the mpeg to 702x480 load the file into dvdauthor then delete the mpeg and replace with the 480x480 version.(ie ticks dvd author into using the non compliant file)

I end up with a dvd thats at 480x480 mpeg2. This would be a lot easier to produce if the dvdauthor could have its mpg compliance turned off so i could load the non compliant 480x480 dvd straight into dvdauthor

Search the Net, there are Patches out for TDA to do this...

Well, I searched the web and did not find any of the above mentioned patches. Any clues?

i used TDA to burn dvd for a long while it works well b4 but after i reformat my HD reinstall it again...whenever i add file in it will pop out automatically or sometimes it will pop out automatically when i click on output file...why is that? i try to uninstall and reinstall it a few times too still have the same problem...i also have the same problem with tmpgenc plus 2.5 and TDS too...pls tell me what i can do and how to fix it...thx a lot