|  | Posted by Bob on 11/17/05 04:00 
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:45:46 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
 >On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:36:36 -0600, "Ken Maltby"
 ><kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 >
 >>  You shouldn't be doing any "rendering" with TDA, if by that
 >>you mean a lengthy encoding.  You could try using VideoReDo's
 >>Quickfix ( with the MF option turned off) on those MF4 rendered
 >>clips.  Then just feed them to TDA, clicking on the Blue "Add new
 >>track..." text, between clips.  It should take only couple of seconds
 >>for each clip in Quickfix.  And the usual 15-20min to write the
 >>VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folders.  The MF4 clips are almost
 >>DVD compliant MPEG and it's possible that TDA could use them
 >>directly as they are, but I would think the few seconds with
 >>Quickfix, have to be worth it.
 >
 >OK, here are the comments I snipped earlier.
 >
 >I figured out how to use "Add new track" and imported 3 clips to run a
 >test. When I was about to do the final composition I got 2 identical
 >error messages: "The combined bitrate of the clip exceeds the upper
 >limit for standard DVD." The errors applied to the first 2 clips and
 >not the 3rd one.
 >
 >I did not run the individual clips thru VRD. So I now I ran the first
 >one thru Quickfix to see if that would cure the problem. But VDR said
 >there was a PTS underflow of 169.
 >
 >I looked it up:
 >
 >+++
 >PTS underflows occur when the presentation time stamps (PTS) fall
 >behind the system clocks in the program pack stream headers(SCR). An
 >MPEG program stream has two sets of time stamps, one for the overall
 >file and another for each elementary audio and video stream. The PTS
 >underflow indicates that the bit rate for at least one of the
 >elementary streams exceeds the overall bit rate for the entire file
 >(SCR).
 >
 >A few ( < 100) PTS underflow errors will not affect the output
 >program. You can increase the overall bit rate of the file by
 >overriding the video bit rate on the Output Options dialog.
 >
 >Note: If you intend to author this file to a DVD, the overall bit rate
 >should not exceed 10 Mbps.
 >+++
 >
 >Help further says that I can access the Output Options dialog "by
 >pressing the "Options" button on the output dialog box.".
 >
 >What "output dialog box"? I cannot find any such thing. Now what do I
 >do?
 >
 >I tried to import that fixed clip into TDA again but I got the same
 >error. So I am stopped until I learn what the "output dialog box" with
 >the "Output Options dialog" is.
 >
 >Then I have to figure out what to do with this. Presumably setting the
 >bitrate for 10Mbps will cause VRD to make it DVD compliant.
 >
 >Any help would be appreciated.
 
 I played the 3-clip DVD I just made and the menu only has one entry.
 
 Yet it showed 3 entries in TDA.
 
 What am I doing wrong?
 
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