Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Wednesday 27.8.2025 / 08:46
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   Pĺ svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > dvd±r discussion > dvd±r for newbies > help me out please?
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
help me out please?
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
jock
Suspended due to non-functional email address
_ 		2. March 2003 @ 06:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have a pioneer dvr-105 dvd-r.
can anyone tell me what discs i need, and which programmes i need?
[ + quote]
mdtplus4
Newbie
_ 		2. March 2003 @ 14:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi jock, I have the same burner and I bought my DVD-Rs off of FeeBay...I mean Ebay. Got a spindle of 50 for about 33 bucks.
http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=26534869

As for software, I use VirtualDub (free) to capture and edit AVIs and TMPGEnc PLUS ($48) to convert my AVIs to MPEG-2. I'm still using MyDVD and ShowBiz to burn my movies (but not for long).

Just keep reading the forums and testing like crazy and soon you'll have it down.
Mark

[ + quote]
WINXP HOME, AMD Athlon XP 2600+
ASUS A7V8X-X MOBO, 512 DDR 2700 RAM
PIONEER DVR-A05U
NVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 VIDEO CARD
160 GIG HDD (Partitioned)
Jolard
Newbie
_ 		6. March 2003 @ 14:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The only problem with using ShowBiz and MyDVD to author the DVD's is that it will re-encode your video, even though it was already encoded in TMPGEnc. This is really annoying, especially since the encoder in MyDVD is pretty bad quality, and TMPGEnc is pretty good.

My process for this same situation is:

Capture with VirtualDub. I capture at 600 x 480 with Huffyuv.
Encode with TMPGEnc using the DVD wizard, usually using VBR averaging 6000.
Author DVD with DVDIt. SpruceUp is also good. Neither of these apps will re-encode your video as long as it is already DVD standard mpeg2. Makes a BIG difference. There are other authoring packages out there that won't re-encode as well, and make sure that is the case. The re-encoding just buggers up your quality.

I also believe that IFOEdit can author the DVD for you as well, but of course it would be menuless if you wanted that.
[ + quote]
Advertisement
_ 		__
 
_
mdtplus4
Newbie
_ 		6. March 2003 @ 14:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Maybe you can clear something up for me.

When MyDVD re-encodes my DVD ready MPEG-2 files, it encodes them very quickly so I was thinking that MyDVD is just checking the files not re-encoding. Am I wrong about this?

Thanks, Mark
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > dvd±r discussion > dvd±r for newbies > help me out please?
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2025 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork