Posted by Bob on 11/17/05 03:45

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.






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