compression problem

[bobbig]

I'm trying to take a 13 minute dvd and turn it into a quiktime movie. After it is done the video says it is 13 minutes long but the video/audio only appears for about the first 4 minutes and it is the whole video but compressed into 4 minutes. I record it for playback on a Mpeg4 player/standard. the first dvd i copied works fine and is the proper length. If anyone understand my problem please help me.

[tsantee]

I'm uncertain about what you're describing. As I understand it you have a 13-minute video on a DVD that became 4 minutes when exported as MPEG-4. Very odd.

 

I'm presuming you inserted the DVD which was selected using the DVD Disc in the Player section. You identified the title you wanted to export (or chose the entire disc) and clicked the Export button. And that gave you the 4-minute video.

 

Try this instead. Choose Video files as the format in the Player section. Insert the DVD and choose DVD with the top button of the Media Browser. Double-click on what appears in the browser window. There you should see each title that is on the DVD. Drag what you want to the main window. Popcorn will extract the video from the disc. Now select that file in the main window and choose export. This may get you the correct exported video.

[bobbig]

I'm uncertain about what you're describing. As I understand it you have a 13-minute video on a DVD that became 4 minutes when exported as MPEG-4. Very odd.

 

I'm presuming you inserted the DVD which was selected using the DVD Disc in the Player section. You identified the title you wanted to export (or chose the entire disc) and clicked the Export button. And that gave you the 4-minute video.

 

Try this instead. Choose Video files as the format in the Player section. Insert the DVD and choose DVD with the top button of the Media Browser. Double-click on what appears in the browser window. There you should see each title that is on the DVD. Drag what you want to the main window. Popcorn will extract the video from the disc. Now select that file in the main window and choose export. This may get you the correct exported video.

 

 

 

 

I did what you said and it still came out compressed. It placed 3 QT movies on my desktop (the dvd has 3 chapters. 2 five minutes long and 1 three minutes long). The 5 min. chapters play in 2 minutes and the 3 min chapter plays in about 1. When I moved the chapters into the video file window I can click on each chapter and see a little "play" cursor under each video. I can then slide it to the right and see that the ENTIRE video is in that box. But when I hit record it compresses them all. I've tried this with 3 different regular recordable dvd's and only 1 of them didn't compress the video/audio.

[tsantee]

I did what you said and it still came out compressed. It placed 3 QT movies on my desktop (the dvd has 3 chapters. 2 five minutes long and 1 three minutes long). The 5 min. chapters play in 2 minutes and the 3 min chapter plays in about 1. When I moved the chapters into the video file window I can click on each chapter and see a little "play" cursor under each video. I can then slide it to the right and see that the ENTIRE video is in that box. But when I hit record it compresses them all. I've tried this with 3 different regular recordable dvd's and only 1 of them didn't compress the video/audio.

You've stumped me with this one so I need some time to think about it. I'm presuming the compressed video no longer has the audio in sync. For instance, the audio should play at the normal rate even though the video is going at double speed. So at the end the audio just cuts off. Is that what's happening? I've never encountered this before so I'm trying to make sense of it.

 

What Mac, OS version and Popcorn 3 version are you using? Is this a PAL or NTSC DVD?

[bobbig]

You've stumped me with this one so I need some time to think about it. I'm presuming the compressed video no longer has the audio in sync. For instance, the audio should play at the normal rate even though the video is going at double speed. So at the end the audio just cuts off. Is that what's happening? I've never encountered this before so I'm trying to make sense of it.

 

What Mac, OS version and Popcorn 3 version are you using? Is this a PAL or NTSC DVD?

 

 

 

A superdrive MacBook with OSX 10.4.11, newest Popcorn 3 and American NTSC DVD sre my versions. Would lack of enough hard drive space be a culprit in this. As of this I have 5.6gb left of hard drive space.

[tsantee]

A superdrive MacBook with OSX 10.4.11, newest Popcorn 3 and American NTSC DVD sre my versions. Would lack of enough hard drive space be a culprit in this. As of this I have 5.6gb left of hard drive space.

That's very little hard drive space but I've seen Popcorn present an error message about too little disk space available. The only thing I can think of is that the video is being encoded at twice the frame rate as the source. For instance most NTSC DVDs are either 29.97 fps or 30 fps and that yours are encoding at 60 fps. You could see the frame rate of the re-encoded version by adding it to the video files setting and reading the specs under the thumbnail.

 

This is truly bizarre.