Posted by Alpha on 10/30/05 22:48

"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <road@runner.com> wrote:
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>>>There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
>>
>> You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
>> titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
>> you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
>> enough.
>>
>> Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
>> Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
>> fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.
>>
>> These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
>> longer to get things working properly.
>>
>>
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> Most of them don't "screw things up" for me.
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> Luck;
> Ken
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>

The problem is often not with authoring programs. Capture systems,
particularly hardware, as well as encoders may not produce completely
compliant mpeg files. There is also a little ambiguity in what is strictly
by-the-book compliant, since latitude was built into the protocals (it is
*adaptive* compression when not in CBR) or forced into the computing world
by clever programmers (e.g. we can shave time off processing if we ignore
this).

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