First show. Title 2 of FARSCAPE3_5A, season 3 disc 5-A. The usual; TDA thinks the episode ends at 00:42:38;09 -- and, of course, it doesn't. It doesn't -- again, of course -- end that early for other DVD authoring programs, either.

I had to reformat my hard drive, and I lost the keys for AC3 plugin.

How do I get them now?

All the emails sent to "support@pegasys-inc.com" come back as failure delivery.

I need this plug in bad. I have several projects on hold, and I can not get a response from Pegasys.

How do I get my keys?

Someone please help.

Once again, TDA has failed to read chapter titles properly, whereas other programs manage to do so.

Once again, it's Farscape. Season 3, volume 4-B.

It's always the second title, it seems, that TDA fux up on.

This was old last weekend; or was it the weekend before last?

Once again, TMPGEnc DVD Author has failed to read a title properly.

Once again, other DVD authoring programs do not fail.

The DVD is Farscape, Season 3, Volume 2 disc B.

The second episode, it reads to less than its full length.

This is getting old.

hey. i'd just recently aquired your software

and i'd burnt an avis to dvd, as i left all the settings to standard, and when i tried to play it on any dvd drive i get a sound delay.

Is there any way to fix this problem

Thanks

TDA assumes a perfectly rectangular container for titles and as a result, if the title is italicized it will chop off the edge of the last character in the title, making it conform to a straight rectangle rather than a more accurately rhomboid shape.

The DVD is Farscape, Season 2 Volume 3, disc B.

It's the first disc in the series' DVD history that has three titles on it, it is the "Look at the Princess" trilogy.

The second movie on the disc is title 11.

TMPGEnc DVD Author will *NOT* read it correctly. Even if it is re-encoded by other DVD authoring softwares at 100% (I've tried two: Clone DVD; and DVD Shrink).

Each time it reads the title, which is over 46 minutes in length, to 00:19:33;14 but will not go any further. It assumes that is the end of the title.

Needless to say, it's wrong.

When trying to go into the chapter edit cut menu, the DVD author is putting the software on not responding.

This happened after upgrading my processor from 1.7 tot 3.06 Ghz, and changing the videocard (Hercules AIW 9800SE)

Does this sound familiar to anyone ???

Dears sirs,
having used TMPGEnc DVD Author for some weeks, I have some questions. By the way, a very good program with very easy handling!!

1. Where can I get some other themes, layouts, backgrounds or buttons for the DVD Authoring program (yes, I found the "Edit" button :-) )?

2. I use a Pioneer DVR-7000 standalone DVD recorder for direct recording from DVB/TV. For this, the recorder uses the compatible "video mode" (which is unfortunately limited to 2 hours recording time) and the "VR mode" with some more possibilities. Having recorded in VR mode (145 min) and importing this disc into Tmpgenc DVD Author, I get the following errors:
- "The video resolution 544x576 cannot be used for a standard dvd"
- "The video framerate 25fps cannot be used with the resolution 544x576"
which I cannot "ignore".

I understand, that this resolution is not supported with Tmpgenc DVD Author as being not compatible with DVD standard players. So, I imported the VRO-file into Tmpgenc plus / Tmpgenc DVD Source Generator to re-encode the video stream.
Doing this works fine for the video, but the resulting file misses the audio stream (being AC-3).

- Would the AC3 audio plugin solve this problem ??
- Is there another way to convert the VRO-files to a standard format(including audio information), so that I can reauthor it for compatibility with standard DVD players ???

5. At least ?A bug? When chosing an cursive script font in Tmpgenc DVD Author, the headings and chapter descriptions in the menu are not complete (i.e. the right half of the last letter is cut away). I help myself by appending a single space at the end of each word (which is much work though).

Best regards

Oliver Koenen

I would like this marvel proggy to be able to do this:

1.- Set a track as first play, with appearing in the menu. I'm actually solving this by moving the button for that track out of the safe areas but remote control number still works as well as navigation.

2.- I also would like to insert some videos as transition between menus and between menus and the movies.

That's all. Hope I explain myself clear. English is not my mother language.

Regards,
Khonshu.

The problem
I have a Sony DVD recorder (RDR-GX3) and a Sky+ box (satellite receiver/decoder with integrated hard disk), I wanted to be able to record my favorite films and TV shows onto a DVD-RW disk and then edit them on my PC to cut out the adverts etc.

I bought a Plextor PX-708A DVD writer (for my PC) and looked for some software that would allow me to edit the VOB files, I deceided on TMPGEnc DVD Author because I liked the layout of the software, then however the problems began.

Firstly the Sony DVD recorder can format the DVD-RW disks into DVD-Video or DVD-VR, I picked the former because it has greater compatibility with commercial DVD players, unfortunately the "Add DVD video" button on DVD Author will only work with commercially pressed DVD's and not ones from DVD recorders and the "Add file" did not work either (there is a note to this effect in the help file), so I tried a film recorded in DVD-VR format and found that my PC would not read the disk correctly. This is a problem with Win XP (it is mentioned in the FAQ section for DVD Author on the Pegasys inc website, for more detailed information see knowledge base article 818733 on the Microsoft web site).

Solution number 2
Download the Instant Read 6.5 file from www.pinnaclesys.com (do a search for "Instant Read 6.5" on the home page. DVD-VR disks are basically a UDF format, Win XP does not read the DVD version correctly, however I found that after installing this software, I could insert my DVD-VR disk, run DVD Author and select "Add DVD video" and it worked fine.

PLEASE NOTE - I have only recently discovered this second solution so I have not tried it out as extensivly as solution number 1, I origonally had the Nero InCD software installed on my PC (a previous failed attempt to get a DVD-VR solution) and found that it clashed with Instant Read, I think it would be safe to say that it is not advisiable to have other UDF readers installed on your PC.

I hope that you find this post useful - Happy editing

SDR

>The problem
>I have a Sony DVD recorder (RDR-GX3) and a Sky+ box (satellite receiver/decoder with integrated hard disk), I wanted to be able to record my favorite films and TV shows onto a DVD-RW disk and then edit them on my PC to cut out the adverts etc.
>
>I bought a Plextor PX-708A DVD writer (for my PC) and looked for some software that would allow me to edit the VOB files, I deceided on TMPGEnc DVD Author because I liked the layout of the software, then however the problems began.
>
>Firstly the Sony DVD recorder can format the DVD-RW disks into DVD-Video or DVD-VR, I picked the former because it has greater compatibility with commercial DVD players, unfortunately the "Add DVD video" button on DVD Author will only work with commercially pressed DVD's and not ones from DVD recorders and the "Add file" did not work either (there is a note to this effect in the help file), so I tried a film recorded in DVD-VR format and found that my PC would not read the disk correctly. This is a problem with Win XP (it is mentioned in the FAQ section for DVD Author on the Pegasys inc website, for more detailed information see knowledge base article 818733 on the Microsoft web site).
>
>Solution number 2
>Download the Instant Read 6.5 file from www.pinnaclesys.com (do a search for "Instant Read 6.5" on the home page. DVD-VR disks are basically a UDF format, Win XP does not read the DVD version correctly, however I found that after installing this software, I could insert my DVD-VR disk, run DVD Author and select "Add DVD video" and it worked fine.
>
>PLEASE NOTE - I have only recently discovered this second solution so I have not tried it out as extensivly as solution number 1, I origonally had the Nero InCD software installed on my PC (a previous failed attempt to get a DVD-VR solution) and found that it clashed with Instant Read, I think it would be safe to say that it is not advisiable to have other UDF readers installed on your PC.
>
>I hope that you find this post useful - Happy editing
>
>SDR

The problem
I have a Sony DVD recorder (RDR-GX3) and a Sky+ box (satellite receiver/decoder with integrated hard disk), I wanted to be able to record my favorite films and TV shows onto a DVD-RW disk and then edit them on my PC to cut out the adverts etc.

I bought a Plextor PX-708A DVD writer (for my PC) and looked for some software that would allow me to edit the VOB files, I deceided on TMPGEnc DVD Author because I liked the layout of the software, then however the problems began.

Firstly the Sony DVD recorder can format the DVD-RW disks into DVD-Video or DVD-VR, I picked the former because it has greater compatibility with commercial DVD players, unfortunately the "Add DVD video" button on DVD Author will only work with commercially pressed DVD's and not ones from DVD recorders and the "Add file" did not work either (there is a note to this effect in the help file), so I tried a film recorded in DVD-VR format and found that my PC would not read the disk correctly. This is a problem with Win XP (it is mentioned in the FAQ section for DVD Author on the Pegasys inc website, for more detailed information see knowledge base article 818733 on the Microsoft web site).

Solution number 1
I recorded a film onto a DVD-Video formated disk and then used DVD Decrypter (go to www.dvddecryoter.com) to "extract" the VOB files onto the hard disk.

Firstly insert your DVD into the drive and run the software. On the menu bar select [Tools] [Settings], click on the [IFO Mode] tab and change the file splitting option to [None]. Then from the menu bar again select [Mode] [IFO I].
In the [Source] box select your DVD drive, and in the [Destination] area click on the folder + magnifying glass icon and set where on your hard disk you want the files to be stored. Next on the right hand side select the [Stream Processing] tab, ensure the [Enable Stream Processing] box is ticked as well as all the Video and Audio entries beneath it. Then do a mouse right click on one of the Video or Audio entries and click on [Set All - Demux]. Finally click on the DVD disk - arrow - Hard Disk button (bottom left) to start the process. Once this is complete on your hard disk you will have, amoung other things, two files, one with a .m2v extension the other a .ac3 file.

You can now run DVD Author, [Create new project] and then select [Add file], navigate to the .m2v file on your hard disk and select it. This brings up the [Add Clip] dialog box, press the [Browse] button in the [Audio settings] area and select your .AC3 file. Once you have edited etc you then get to the [Output] area, set you ouput folder and press [Begin output], when you do you get a dialog box saying [TMPGEnc DVD Author has encountered a problem], it is telling you that the combined bitrate is beyond the upper limit for the DVD standard. Select [Ignore] and continue on. (This message confuses me somewhat because I can see the bit rate on my DVD player and it is well within the limits, the only thing that I can think of is that DVD Decrypter puts something in the output files saying what the maximum bit rate can be and not any information about what it actually is).

I hope that you find this post useful - Happy editing

SDR