Creating DVDs - poor quality and SLOW

[highlysceptical]

I have just tried creating a DVD using TV Suite and am very disappointed with the end result.

I started off with two TS files (from a Humax 9200), edited them and saved them as new TS files.

I then created the DVD project without too many problems. However, it then took my computer about 4 hours to actually create the DVD, and the picture quality on the DVD is very inferior to the quality of the original files.

Prior to buying the TV Suite, I had been editing in Video Redo and creating mpv / mpa files and then burning them using GUI_DVD Author. The results were excellent, albeit it was a bit fiddly having to use both programs.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I be converting my files to mpv / mpa format before trying to create the DVD? Or is this program not very good at creating DVDs?

[phd]

What are the properties of the files? Press Ctrl+L

Did you have "Accept non-compliant..." checked?

Were you overloading the DVD forcing a reencode?

[highlysceptical]

Thanks for the response. In answer to your questions ...



What are the properties of the files? Press Ctrl+L

Files properties should be the same - this is one of them

File Name: E:\Humax\Checked\Films\Dr No.ts
File Size: 2259186976 ( 2.10 GB )
Program Duration: 01:43:56.01
File Type: TS Stream
Encoding: MPEG 2
Video stream Id: 512 (x200)
Encoding Dimensions: 704 x 576
Display Size: 704 x 576
Aspect Ratio: 16/9
Frame Rate: 25.00 FPS
Bit Rate: 15.000 Mbps
VBV_Buffer: 224 KB
Profile: Main/Main
Progressive: Prog or Int
Chroma: 4:2:0
Audio Format: Layer 2
Audio Stream Id: 650 (x28a)
Audio Bit Rate: 192 Kbps
Audio Sampling Rate: 48000 Hz



Did you have "Accept non-compliant..." checked?

No



Were you overloading the DVD forcing a reencode?

Don't think so - it said it was 4.63 GB, and a DVD is 4.7 GB? But wouldn't it warn me if I was forcing a reencode?

[DanR]

But wouldn't it warn me if I was forcing a reencode?If its forcing a recode one of the symbols in the property list will be a yellow triangle.


it said it was 4.63 GB, and a DVD is 4.7 GB?A DVD is actually much less then 4.7GB. I believe its around 4.2GB of actual data. There overhead for menuing, navigation. etc. Also, there are a number of different ways to count GB. I.e. a GB = 1,000,000,00 bytes or 1,024,000,000 bytes or 1024*1024 bytes. There are whole articles written up about DVD sizing and how GBytes are counted.

[highlysceptical]

Thanks Dan, I should have read the help file better! I had not noticed the triangle indicating major re-encoding.