[cjspangler]

I am re-using DVD project files and .mpg video files that had previously worked just fine when creating ISOs. The *ONLY* item I've changed is, under "project settings", I changed "interlaced" to "progressive" because it gives a much better quality DVD at the end (and why isn't that the default?).

It only worked on the first DVD that I tried it on...every ISO I've tried to create since then gives me the same problem. It goes through 2 of 2 steps to normalize the audio, the overal progress stays at 2%, and then MyDVD simply...waits for the Rapture, I guess. Hard drive activity keeps up for quite some time, but I've left it go overnight and come back in the morning to the same screen.

Any suggestions?

--Chris

[cjspangler]

No one? This is really irritating.

I use a CPU / temperature monitoring program to check the progress of MyDVD. For ten minutes or so, it shows moderate CPU activity and I can see hard drive activity. Then as soon as it switches over from doing the audio, and tries to start re-encoding the video, it hangs. All I can do is cancel the job.

Anyone? Please?

--Chris

[ggrussell]

cjspangler, on Jun 20 2006, 09:06 PM, said:

(and why isn't that the default?).

Because most people watch the final DVD on a regular TV which is interlaced. Even if you did burn a 'progressive' rendered DVD, the DVD player will have to interlace it for the TV. The only exception is if you have connected a DVD player to a TV with progessive inputs.

As for the hanging, no idea. If the same file worked before, changing to progressive shouldn't make a difference. Did you create the MPEG in Videowave?

[cjspangler]

ggrussell, on Jun 22 2006, 05:18 AM, said:

Because most people watch the final DVD on a regular TV which is interlaced. Even if you did burn a 'progressive' rendered DVD, the DVD player will have to interlace it for the TV. The only exception is if you have connected a DVD player to a TV with progessive inputs.

I've watched both an interlaced version and a progressive version on my older RCA TV (albeit through a nice Integra DVD player), and I find the progressive version to by *much* nicer. The interlaced version was...stuttery? Not so much that the average viewer would notice, but definitely enough that it bothered me. When I showed my wife the interlaced version, she said it looked fine and didn't see what I was talking about. When I showed her the progressive version, she said, "Ah. That is different."

ggrussell, on Jun 22 2006, 05:18 AM, said:

As for the hanging, no idea. If the same file worked before, changing to progressive shouldn't make a difference. Did you create the MPEG in Videowave?

The original file is from a TiVo. I used DirectShow Dump to convert it to an .mpg file, which Videowave has less trouble working with. I cut the commercials out, add transitions, and then create the DVD with a single chapterless menu in MyDVD Premier 8.

One of the projects hung when I tried it in interlaced, but eventually I got it to work, just by trying it again. *None* of the projects work when I tried them in progressive.

Worth noting, the projects that don't need to be downsized when re-encoding all work fine. It's only when the source files exceed the size of the final DVD that it fails, to the best of my knowledge.

--Chris

[ggrussell]

I'm not familiar with Tivo files, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were progessive. If you're curious, GSpot will tell you if it is. It's a freebie and gives you all kinds of info on a video file like codecs, aspect ratio, resolution, etc.