Alright, here's my scenario. I have about 28 hours of DV footage (from a Sony MiniDV camcorder) that I need to shrink to fit onto one DVD. I've used vDTS (http://www.dts8888.com/vDTS/vdts.htm) to burn the timecodes onto the footage, and now I need to encode it. According to a bitrate calculator, if I use 96kbits for the audio and 264kbits for the video, it should fit. I've been running this through TMPGEnc, and I'm having the following problem; when TMPGEnc encodes the video, the resulting file is much bigger than it should be. Also, when I open the files with Windows Media Player, it reports that the video file is much longer than the source file and seeking does not work.
The idea here is for me to create a 'catalog' DVD that someone could look at, and then pick clips out and order high-res copies, so picture quality is not really an issue (as long as the timecodes are readable.) Does anyone know what the problem might be with TMPGEnc? Are there any other ways you guys would recommend doing this?
Actually, this problem was solved. I had the MPEG-1 set at 720x480, which was too large of a size to encode at 150kbits/sec, so it compensated by messing up. I changed it to MPEG-1 320x240 29.97fps CBR 260kbps, Layer-2 32000Hz 96kbps, and it works fine.
