Quote:I've been teaching various computer and networking classes at a community college for a few years now
there is the main difference.
The people you see are there BECAUSE THEY CHOOSE TO LEARN, and are willing to undertake the work entailed.
The VAST majority of people are not that commited to learning as such, and they are the ones for whom minimum effort in is a must.
Think a while about every person you have ever met, average them out, take the median of intelligence and laziness, then think: approx HALF the people about are DUMBER and LAZIER THAN THAT!!!!.
I certainly won't disagree with DVD Author being right for people who don't want to learn. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying that if somebody wants to learn it's very easy. Obviously we've both met a lot of people who don't fit that description, but that's alright by me. They don't pay me for doing things everybody can do.
I'm glad you didn't mention home and away in that list, makes me ashamed to be an aussie.
I was playing around with dvdlabs yesterday and have a few questions for you guys.
I was able to import VOB files fine as you should, but when it tries a mpeg file in analysing it tells me to mpeg2 is the standard, which i already knew. It converted the audio fine when demuxifying, so i d/led the trial of konvertor and tried converting the mpeg to mpeg2. It has only converted one file successfully, but it split 70mb it into file sizes of 256k. I ticked the mix multi file into one or whatever the button is next to the output file type, but it just crashes a bit into the process. What do you guys use to convert files?
's ok, I won't hold you responsible for Home & Away ;-)
You are coming up against some of the media file compatability issues I mentioned in a previous post.
I always ensure my source files are DVD-Compliant before importing them into any authoring package.
Personally I use TMPGEnc encoder, plus a few specialist utilities for odd/wierd files, vurbal uses CCE for his files.
In general I find that the in-built transcoding in programs like DVD-Labs is not as good (quality etc) as specialist tools like TMPGEnc encoder or CCE.
What drchips said. Your best bet is probably TMPGEnc, but I couldn't give you instructions since, as drchips mentioned, I use CCE. If you decide you want to buy TMPGEnc and DVD-Lab you can also get them bundled together as DVD Source Creator.
Cheers for the quick reply guys, i'll have a look at TMPGEnc. I have another prob at the mo', I was very happily using DVD Shrink 3 beta 5, then one day i tried to open it and nothing, wouldn't open, wasn't even dropping rundll32's into my process list, i reinstalled windows, drastic maybe, but i love that DVD Shrink, and nothing again on a a fresh install fresh hdd. Installed the latest one recently and that does it too, every now and again i have to reinstall it and launch from the setup menu. Then when it backs up a disk, even with the create sub folders for audio & video ts unticked it still places to folders in the drive. It doesn't allow it to play on a dvd player, you have to select the track and play.
So last night i backed up finding nemo and found that it had placed two folders in there, making the disc 20 MB too big. I deleted them and burnt the disc and it works perfectly, any ideas on what's going on?
