[MacDV] Can't render/encode my iDVD project - Can't burn project to DVD

[Gerhard Kuhn]

Did you view the DVD on your computer or on TV.  Generally they look 
much better on a TV.
The Audio_TS folder should be empty as the audio is part of the mpeg2 
file.

Gerhard


On Oct 27, 2004, at 8:03 PM, Robert L. Vaessen wrote:

> Gerhard -
>
> I've left it for 20 hours at one time (with power management/screen 
> savers off). About 30% of the time it crashes, when it crashes, it 
> usually crashes within 30 minutes or so. If it doesn't crash, it 
> experiences what I call a "freewheel" symptom. I was recently able to 
> complete a burn (of the iDVD tutorial), but the quality was so bad it 
> was unusable. The burn that completed took about 5 minutes to complete 
> stages 1 - 3, and another 5 minutes to complete stage 4. That project 
> had a menu, a transition, motion graphics, some music, and 5 seconds 
> worth of video.
>
> I'm begining to think that the codec used by iDVD for video/audio 
> rendering and encoding is not compatible with my processor. ffmpegx 
> uses two different codec's. I've been trying both, with limited 
> success.
>
> I'm still tinkering with ffmpegx. I have suceeded in producing a 
> VIDEO_TS folder with the components required for a DVD burn. 
> Unfortunately, there's no aduio yet. I'm going to try to produce the 
> audio and video separately, and then mux them together using one of 
> ffmpegx's post processing capabilities.
>
> - Robert