Posted by Bob on 11/16/05 18:18

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.

Those MF4 exported clips are worthless. They won't play. Putting them
thru VRD does no good. IOW, an otherwise good MPG clip gets ruined by
MF4.

> 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.

What I did was to import the clip directly from the DVD with VRD since
I need MPGs for TDA. I also sized it while I was at it in VRD. I did
not have to use QuickStream Fix because when you export from VRD it
runs QSF automatically (compare the dialog screens and see).

TDA then did whatever is does producing DVD-burnable files. I did not
burn them but used WinDVD to play them. They played just fine.

There is something about these particular clips that is causing MF4 a
whole lot of grief, enough to cripple it. It goes into a blank stare
for long periods of time (Task Manager reports "Not Responding"). I
have not seen MF4 ever so that before.

It looks like if I want that clip for my collection I am going to play
the music video DVD from a player into a DVD recorder and burn a new,
fully-compliant DVD copy, and work with that. Since the source DVD is
not copy protected I will not have that issue to fool with.


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