dvd burning problems

[weasel1974]

I have been trying to figure out a way to burn DVDs from my DTivo for a while now. I have tried almost every possible dvd burning/authoring software out there to no avail.

Most of them seem to work fine until I put the DVD in my player. The menu looks fine, but when I actually go to play the movie/show, the screen is like split and shifted to the left (I don't know how else to explain it).

The most recent way I have tried this is using Trilight's burning guide using DVD-lab.

Any ideas on what the problem could be?

[AVD]

did you try putting the DVD in another player? I bet the model you have is old, and has problems with tivo resolutions.

[captain_video]

That's exactly the problem. DTivos record at 480X480 resolution which is non-standard for DVDs. A lot of older players have problems playing back DVDs in this format. You'll need to upgrade your DVD player with a newer model. Most recent models will play tyDVDs with no problem, especially if they indicate that they can play SVCDs (480X480 is the native SVCD format).

[weasel1974]

I guess that could be the problem - my dvd player is about 5 years old now (although it supposedlt plays VCDs).

Is there any way to convert the 480x480 to 720x480?

In the meantime, I'll try to use a friend's player and see if it works there.

Thanks!

Ryan

[captain_video]

Is there any way to convert the 480x480 to 720x480?

You can transcode it but it will probably look worse when you're done. Get yourself an inexpensive DVD player for playing back tyDVDs. I just bought a $50 Cyberhome CH-DVD 320 player for my daughter at Target and it works great. It's progressive scan player with component outputs and will play just about anything you can throw at it.

[weasel1974]

I'm gonna try transcoding it. I assume I would just use TMPGEnc? Is that the best way? Will the file stay approximately the same size?

If it looks like crap I guess i'll just have to "break" my current player and talk my wife into getting a new one. :D

[weasel1974]

I used TMPGEnc to convert a 500MB mpg to 720x480 and it increased the size to 1.9GB!?!

I guess I have something wrong in the settings. Has anybody done this before and kept the file at somewhere AROUND the same size? I would be OK if it doubled in size, but this is almost 4x the size!

Thanks!

Ryan