• Creating a playable DVD from a single file
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I wrote this for brickinhead in the gmf but since I put a little bit of effort into it I thought I'd make a thread, it might be useful to others. The source I used was a blu-ray. I did it mostly the MANUAL way, since automated programs like DVDFlick or Nero Vision tends to totally FUCK up the quality and give weird, undesired results. sooo: [b]How I have successfully created a DVD from a single video file[/b] [INDENT][B]Tools:[/B] [list] [*]meGui/AVISynth [*]tsMuxer [*]QuEnc [*]ReJig [*]Nero Burning Rom [/list] [/INDENT] [INDENT][b]Step 1:[/b] Creating the AVISynth script [INDENT]Open up meGUI, select Tools and AVS Script and drag the video file into the source on the next screen. Once that is finished, it should give you a little preview window. Now, we'll need to resize it. If you're using PAL, set the video dimensions to 720x576. If you plan to burn to use NTFS, you'll want 720x480. The video will look squashed, this is normal. DVD players automatically stretch it out to full 16:9. The reason you downloaded and are using meGUI now instead of just AVISynth by itself is because you need to now, when the script is saved, hit queue. It will say something about adding yblahblah levels. hit yes, wait for it to say it was saved, and close megui, you don't need it for anything else (unless you want to reencode your audio. if you're using a low quality dvdrip as a source I don't recommend it since it's already not great to begin with.)[/INDENT] You will however need to demux your audio now. Open up tsMuxer, and import the original file. Delete the video stream within the file leaving only the audio stream. Select Demux, and start it. Once that's done, you'll have your audio stream ready to be muxed into an m2v. [B]Step 2:[/B] Encoding to MPEG2 [INDENT]Now, upen up Quenc. We've going to convert it to a DVD complient format. I wish I could use x264 but alas it's not what you need to do. Import the avs script file you created into video source. You don't need to import the audio yet. If you plan on ripping to a dual layer dvd, I recommend an 8-9000 bitrate since you have ab out 8gb of space. If you're only using a dvd5, you'll need it much lower to fit it on a 4gb dvd. To find out what the best bitrate is to fit it on the disc, you can open megui again, and go to tools > bitrate calculator. set it to snow and find out what bitrate takes up under 4gb (KEEP IN MIND THE SIZE OF THE AUDIO as they both combined need to fit on the DVD) Also make room for a little padding of the VOB files, they can end up being slightly larger. Once you have a decent bitrate you want to work with, start the encode process into an m2v. I am using a dual layer disc, so I used 9000. Some programs may have a problem burning this to a dvd, but I have found that Rejig works fine at that high a bitrate.[/INDENT] [B]Step 3:[/b] Authoring the DVD files [INDENT]Time to use ReJig. Open Rejit and select DVD Author. Simply import the video and audio streams into their respective places, set whether or not it's PAL or NTSC, choose a new desination folder for it to create all the burn ready files. Once that's done you're pretty much set.[/INDENT] [B]Step 4:[/b] Burn that shit [INDENT]Open up Nero Burning Rom, make sure it's set to DVD, and select Video DVD and start the new project. In the bottom right of the project, select either DVD5 or DVD9 (dual layer). Then simply import the files into their proper folders. I RECOMMEND BURNING A TEST ISO TO MOUNT ON YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE WASTING ANY DISCS IN CASE YOU FUCKED UP OR ISN'T SATISFACTORY. How to do this: Up the top, of the project where it says your DVD Burner drive, select IMAGE RECORDER instead. Then progress with the burn, save the ISO into a location, and burn. Mount it and play it with a few different programs (skipping ahead may cause audio sync issues that may not be present on the actual dvd player so just run it for a minute or two, or open up the second IFO file in the disc with any program and then skipping won't cause any sync problems). If it's fine, then burn it to a real disc. Bam. I hope this helps, this is what i literally just got done doing and it works fine for me. I burnt an NTSC disc and it plays and looks fine on my PAL player. [/INDENT][/INDENT] I JUST TESTED IT ON MY AUSTRALIAN PANASONIC DVD PLAYER: I set my player to 16:9 NTSC. Picture displays perfectly in correct aspect ratio, I fast forwarded half way through the film, absolutely no syncing problems whatsoever. Picture is great for a DVD too. I'm fucking thrilled something worked for a change. Screenshots of the result (upscaled in ps to 1080p so you can see what it looks like stretched to that size): [IMG_THUMB]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/kick%20ass%20dvd%20comparison/01%20dvd.png[/IMG_THUMB] [IMG_THUMB]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/kick%20ass%20dvd%20comparison/02%20dvd.png[/IMG_THUMB] [IMG_THUMB]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/kick%20ass%20dvd%20comparison/03%20dvd.png[/IMG_THUMB] [IMG_THUMB]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/kick%20ass%20dvd%20comparison/04%20dvd.png[/IMG_THUMB] [IMG_THUMB]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/kick%20ass%20dvd%20comparison/05%20dvd.png[/IMG_THUMB] The reason I chose NTSC over PAL was to avoid a 4% audio speedup which causes the sound to be higher pitched. Most people don't notice this, but I definitely do and it annoys the shit out of me. If you do something differently, by all means post it, I'd love to see where I went wrong if I did, but so far this has worked for me. If there's overwhelming evidence that there's a better way to do something, please tell me. If you're right I'll edit the guide.
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