Add subtitle to DVD

I’m trying to author an NTSC DVD, and my source .avi is 720×480, TFF interlaced, at 29.97 FPS. After I encode it to an .m2v file with HCEnc, two different DVD authoring programs have warned me that it’s a PAL format movie (well, DVDStyler warns, and GUI for dvdauthor has the PAL/NTSC toggle grayed out in favor of PAL). GSpot indicates the encoded clip is NTSC format.

Does anyone know what’s going on, or what can I do to fix it? It’s really bizarre, since the resolution and framerate is nothing like any PAL source. I’m assuming HCEnc is setting the metadata wrong somewhere and GSpot is basing its assessment on something different from the DVD authoring programs, but I haven’t been able to find any options for correcting this. Does anyone else know how to fix it, so DVD authoring programs recognize the NTSC format of the video?

Hi

I occur problems with AviSynth. When I try to open AVI-Files through AviSynth in VirtualDub, I get the following error message:

"Avisynth open failure:
FFAudioSource: Audio track contains no audio frames
(FFMS2.avsi, line 41)"

I am using following script code:

ffmpegsource2("D:\video.avi", atrack=1)

I tried it with a lot of AVI-Videos (mostly XviD or DivX, LameMP3) and I mostly (but now always) get the error. But with other formats like AVC/AAC it works with the code above. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Also atrack=-1 does not work.

I’m going through a bunch of my old graphics and movie files I have stored on my external hard drives and I noticed a folder full of broken .jpg and .mov files. Every single one of the .mov files returns the error "Error – 2048: Couldn’t open the file PXXXXXXXX.MOV because it is not a file that QuickTime understands."

Has anyone had any good experience with a method fo fix or at least partially salvage damaged .mov files? I downloaded and tried the Grau GbR video repair tool software I found described in this forum but it was unable to recover any of the damaged files.

And off-topic, the same question for .jpg graphics files.

Thanks very much!

Jesse

Hello experts ,

I have WD 1 TB USB 3.0 with collections of movies and planning to buy PHILIPS HD media player HMP3008 to play movies from it .
Does all media player supports USB 3.0 ? As per PHILIPS HD media player HMP3008 manual compability of USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 isnt mentioned.

And also in manual its mentioned You can only play DivX videos that were rented • or purchased with
DivX® registration code of this player. (Refer to “Setup’ > “MISC” >
[DivX® VOD Code]) Doesnt this means I cant play movies which downloaded from internet (Torrent)

Pls help me on this request

Hi,

I am in lookout for a new HD camcorder. I am a fan of Canon HV40 from the reviews and recomendations on this site, but it is near impossible to buy it in my part of the world since this model is discontinued.

So I thought I could go for an AVCHD camcorder, but I do not like shooting on SD Cards. I looked at some of the consumer models from Sony that have HDD built-in, but reviews for those models are not that good.

My goal is to shoot mostly family videos (of my kids), and also I need to shoot stage programs in my daughter’s school (so good mic or provision for external mic is required). I just shoot the video and give the DVD to the school as a voluntary activity.

Given this scenario, and my budget is around $1000 USD, could you please suggest a good HD camcorder that can perform well in lowlight, and also good for shotting school programs?

Thanks in advance.

Regards

I know that only a minority of DVD players in the U.S. will play PAL DVDs, and if you are going to be buying PAL formatted DVDs, you need to to check the specs on your player to make sure that they will play. But if you have a DVD player that does not support PAL, but it does play Xvids, will Xvids encoded from PAL sources play without changing the frame rate or doing some other conversion?

What program should i use that resizes faithfully and with minimum loss (any particular agorithm to be chosen like bicubic or nearest neighbour)l my extracted VCD dayt video files

Shall i retain the dat/mpg 1 format or change format also (which format is best) in the process

any advice or precautions or settings i need to worry about

Thanks

I want to avoid having to convert my TRP (transportable stream) video files (which reside in my Satellite DVR hard drive) to MPG format. It’s too time intensive to convert hundreds of TRP files.

Can anyone out there let me know if a Windows Media Player codec exists that will enable it to play TRP files natively? In addition I installed VideoLAN and was dissapointed to find out that it doesn’t play TRP files. Any help will be greatly appreciate. Thanks

Just installed this drive after a build.
Worked fine for 2 days.
All of a sudden, will not read any dvd.

I uninstalled and reinstalled ; used Microsoft fix-it ( said problem detected and did not fix)

Device mgr says working properly.

I went to Optiarc site, but did not see a firmware download button.

Also did a rollback to when it worked previously today.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Paul

Ive got a really nice JVC HD camcorder, but… as time has gone by, Ive learned terms like "rolling shutter", and "Jello Cam".

Was wondering if there was a list somewhere that detailed the consumer/prosumer HD cameras that have CCD sensors.

The only ones Ive been able to find were pro level, $4K and up.

Looking for something in the $400 range.

Thanks for any URL to list, or suggestions.

Cheers,
Andrew