A friend has sent me a file of Glastonbury Festival (music video) from TV a few weeks ago.
I believe it is HD but it is a .TS file, I really have never worked with .TS files before.
I believe I have to convert it if I want to put it to DVD.
I would like to convert it WITHOUT and quality loss, could somebody please tell me a "free" and most easy way to do this ?, as I really don't know much at all about DVD authoring etc.
If that's a VIDEO_TS, it's already DVD compliant and just need's to be burned with ImgBurn (free). Select write folder to disc and set burn speed to 1/2 the rated speed of the media (at device). If ts, then use DVD Flick (free) to convert and burn (use's ImgBurn) but any conversion is going to degrade quality but DVD Flick is pretty good as I understand. You could also just burn the ts as data if your player support's it assuming your ts is an avi. Here's a guide for DVD Flick to look over: http://beginwithsoftware.com/videoguides/dvd-flick-guide.html
I'm a little confused as to which settings I need to have things on using SUPER.
I would like to keep the quality as close to the original as possible.
For example if my input .TS file audio is MP2 128kbps, do I make my output file kbps setting the same or make it as high as possible eg 384 kbps ?
If the original input file is 128kbps and I set the output at 128kbps wouldn't that degrade the quality output file more than if I had used 384kbps as an output setting ?, or does selecting 128kbps keep it the same as the original 128 kbps input file ?
I also have the same confusion about selecting the frames per second for output.
Never even seen a screenshot of Super so don't know what setting's it has but a good setting for audio is 224 kbps. For framerate, you need to convert to PAL (25 fps) or NTSC (23.9 or 29.9 fps), basically North America and Japan are NTSC (720 x 480) and the rest of the world is PAL (720 x 576). A PAL DVD from the UK won't play in the US unless you have an appropriate player, on pc, it shouldn't matter. If you can set for a 2 pass VBR (doubt any freebie does), go ahead, double's the encoding time but scan's the video first for where best to allocate Bitrate (quality) but quality will never be better than the original no matter what method is used.
Thanks, final question !
When I make settings for 720 X 576 and select 16:9 or 4:3 what bitrate do I set either for ?, or do you simply set the bitrate as high as possible if you want the quality to be as high as possible ?
(that question refers to both video and audio bitrate separately)
And the output video is MPEG II, is there a difference between output audio of MP2 or AC3 ?
No, you don't set the Bitrate as high as possible (think 9800 is max for DVD anyway), Bitrate determine's output size which on a regular 4.7 G DVD is actually around 4.35 G and you don't want to burn right to the edge so keep it around 4.3 G - 4.25 G. If using a Dual Layer DVD, capacity is 7.9 G, I think. Not much on audio, I imagine AC3 is larger than mp2 but not a great deal, for a music video probably better. I think AC3 is multichannel while LPCM is a step up but only two channel. I know LPCM result's in a larger file, from what I can see, AC3 is more than good enough. I guess it will come down to personal preference.
