DVD ready recordings - ATI 550 Pro

[bigC]

I didn't want to hi-jack the showburner thread so thought I should start a new topic. It seems gbpvr isn't recording things in fully dvd compliant mpg format. Showburner is unable to mark the comskip commercial points as chapters and if I fast forward faster then 2x or rewind, it takes me back to the menu.

pBS suggested I try re compressing the mpegs with the following FFmpeg Conversion,

Code:

<Conversion name="Make DVD ready"  cmd=" -y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -sc_threshold 1000000000  -flags +cgop+ildct -target ntsc-dvd -f dvd -b 3000k -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec mp2 -ab 128 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".new.mpg" />

Doing this corrects the problem but I don't want to have to do it for every recording I want to burn.

How do I make gbpvr record to an mpg with dvd ready parameters? Do I just have it mis configured or is it possible this a bug between gbpvr & my tuner card... its a MSI ATI Theater 550 Pro.

One other thing maybe worth mentioning... as a test I recorded 10 minutes of tv with the bundled app that came with the tuner, Powercinema 5. I then ran comskip on that mpeg & burned it with showburner. It worked properly.

Can someone help, if you need more info let me know. Thanks

Win XP SP2
GBPVR 0.99.5

[sub]

I dont know if the ATI 550 cards make any promises about producing a DVD compliant stream or not. GB-PVR doesnt do anything to the MPEG2 stream it produces - it just writes every byte data from the card to disk with no modification at all.

The Hauppauge cards on the other hand do produce a DVD compliant stream.

[pBS]

maybe it's output type?
i don't know as i don't have one, but does that setting in direct.ini affect the 550pro?

on haupp. pvr cards, it is what determines the dvd output type...maybe different for ati 550?

[sub]

The output type only affects Hauppauge cards. I'm not aware of any equivalent for the ATI 550 cards.

[bigC]

I dont know if the ATI 550 cards make any promises about producing a DVD compliant stream or not.

But the recordings done in Powercinema are dvd ready. Doesn't that mean the stream is compliant or do I misunderstand? Are you sure theres no settings I can tweak or something else to try? I'm open to suggestions...

[sub]

Are you sure theres no settings I can tweak or something else to try?

There may be some ATI registry settings or something, but I'm not aware of them. There is no GB-PVR settings that would change this. GB-PVR just records the default stream type produced by the card and it's drivers.