DVD recording (again)

[miken32]

Wasn't sure if I should post this or not, since I know others have requested it and been rejected. But it would be great if video could be recorded directly to DVD format (MPEG 3 or whatever?) so it doesn't have to be post-processed by a third-party program that knocks over my computer for an hour to burn a DVD!

I'm pretty fuzzy on the different encodings and all that, half the time I can't follow the threads in these forums when they start on about muxing and DVR-9 or whatever, so I don't know how this all works in the back end.

Is the format that GB-PVR writes limited by whatever the hardware outputs? If that's the case, I can understand the problem; decoding and re-encoding would have to be done in real time, which would probably be too resource intensive. But if the video is coming from the hardware in uncompressed format, seems it would be just as easy to record in DVD format as any other.

Thanks for all the great work, sub. Not perfect, but better than the alternatives by a long shot!

[sub]

Sorry, but I wont be adding support recording straight to DVD.

I may in future add support for burning shows you'd previously recorded, from HDD to DVD, but definitely not burning directly to DVD.

[miken32]

Sorry, but I wont be adding support recording straight to DVD.

I may in future add support for burning shows you'd previously recorded, from HDD to DVD, but definitely not burning directly to DVD.

I didn't mean directly to a DVD disc, I meant recording to the HDD in DVD format so that when I fire up ulead movie factory I don't have to have all the media files decoded and then re-encoded as DVD-compatible MPEGs. If such a thing is even possible.

[sub]

You pretty much can already do that. Most cards record DVD compliant MPEG2 streams which can be record to DVD without having to reencode. You can be burning these to DVD within a few minutes. Apps like nero give you the option to not reencode compliant streams.

[miken32]

You pretty much can already do that. Most cards record DVD compliant MPEG2 streams which can be record to DVD without having to reencode. You can be burning these to DVD within a few minutes. Apps like nero give you the option to not reencode compliant streams.

Thanks for the tip; I'll look into the options for uLead and see if it provides the same ability.

Do you know offhand if the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 provides DVD-compliant video?

[sub]

Yes it does.

[lonegeek]

Check out tmpgenc dvd author, with mpeg 2 files gbpvr created i could just add those to the files and it would creat a dvd image for me...

[pBS]

in dvd movie factory and video studio, check the 'use smart-render for compliant files' or whatever it's called in the options in dvdmf...[there's very few options]
i also made a program that will burn them from gbpvr...
Showburner...[on the Wiki] [new version for gbpvrv.98.x+ coming in probably a day or so..]
but that option should do the trick in Ulead's DVD Movie Creator...
look for 'smart render' or 'smart encode' and turn it on...

[miken32]

in dvd movie factory and video studio, check the 'use smart-render for compliant files' or whatever it's called in the options in dvdmf...[there's very few options]
i also made a program that will burn them from gbpvr...
Showburner...[on the Wiki] [new version for gbpvrv.98.x+ coming in probably a day or so..]
but that option should do the trick in Ulead's DVD Movie Creator...
look for 'smart render' or 'smart encode' and turn it on...

I like to put menus on the disc, and also cut out commercials and start/end padding, so that's why I use movie factory.

The checkbox to not re-encode "compliant" video files was already checked, has been all along. So I created a new profile that matches what gbpvr is outputting (MPEG audio instead of Dolby Digital, 7200 kbps max instead of 7000) and I'll see what happens.

Does anyone else have a similar setup (gbpvr to ulead movie factory) that can confirm the possibility exists to burn without re-encoding? I don't know how perfect a clip has to be before it's "compliant!"