I found a couple of issues

[linuxman]

I have found two issues with the TV Suite Version 4 that I thought I should mention.

The first issue was with a file I recorded with my Diamond 9000 HD PVR receiver.

All of the 5 .trp (transport) files was a total of about 6 GBs. I cut the commercials out, and joined the files together and all was well.

I tried saving it to an mp4 file and cut the bit rate down so that it would all fit on a single DVD.

The process went great, and it indeed cut the file down to about 4.2 GBs. The problem arose when trying to play it back on my DVD player which will play many formats of files that are recorded as files on a DVD.

About 13 minutes into the movie, the player just quit playing the file. I tried 3 different times using 3 more different DVDs, but still the same problem which occurred at differing time periods.

I finally just saved as an mpg file and that works perfectly and plays all the way through without incident. I don't know what the issue can be, but am hopeful that in future releases, the problem can be fixed.

The second issue is that when playing mp4 files created by VRD v4, the players that I have tried show no bit rate in the information screens.

These are not major problems, and I know they will be taken care of in future releases.

VRD is still the best program I have ever used to cut commercials from recorded videos. :)

[DanR]

I tried saving it to an mp4 file and cut the bit rate down so that it would all fit on a single DVD.Did you recode the file to get the bit rate down?

[linuxman]

Did you recode the file to get the bit rate down?

Yes, I recoded the file to get the bit rate down.

[DanR]

Do you remember what bit rate you recoded to?

Since we don't have your player, its going to be difficult to figure out what's wrong. Try editing the mp4 file, preserving just the 30 seconds before and after the stall. Save again as mp4 and see if this new file stalls on your player. Hopefully it will. Then perhaps you can upload it to our FTP so we can look at it.

Also, do you have any specs regarding the profile, level, and/or bit rates that your player can accept?

[linuxman]

Do you remember what bit rate you recoded to?
I cut the bit rate from 15000 to about 3000


Since we don't have your player, its going to be difficult to figure out what's wrong. Try editing the mp4 file, preserving just the 30 seconds before and after the stall. Save again as mp4 and see if this new file stalls on your player. Hopefully it will. Then perhaps you can upload it to our FTP so we can look at it.
That's going to be a problem, because the area where the dvd player cut out are in different spots on all of the files I created.


Also, do you have any specs regarding the profile, level, and/or bit rates that your player can accept?

It is a Phillips DVP5990/F7 (http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?ctn=DVP5990/F7&scy=US&slg=en).

Unfortunately, they don't give much information as far as real specifications. :(

I wish I could be more helpful in providing information to help fix the problem.