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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