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Archiving recoded programs to DVD
Hey everyone I’m trying to figure out a problem here and i was wandering if anyone else has encountered this issue or may make suggestions to help me out.
I’m using DVD-lab to try to compile recoded programs from sage into a DVD that I can play back at a later time... (cartoons for my son) the mpg files play great before i compile them to DVD format... they even play ok inside DVD-lab when I set up the chapters and such but when i compile the DVD and test it.. it plays back as if its playing in fast forward. any suggestions would be wonderful! Regards, Thomas |
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Hit Slow Motion
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Mike Janer SageTV HD300 Extender X2 Sage Server: AMD X4 620,2048MB RAM,SageTV 7.x ,2X HDHR Primes, 2x HDHomerun(original). 80GB OS Drive, Video Drives: Local 2TB Drive GB RAID5 |
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DVD record rate?
Are the cartoons recorded dvd rate (3.25 GB an hour if I remember correctly)? If not and are recorded at a lower rate (2GB an hour for example), that might explain the speed if DVD-lab isn't changing them to 3.25 GB per hour. You could set Sage to record a show or two at the DVD rate (one of the choices in Sage) and put those recordings on a DVD and see if that helps.
Another solution might be a different DVD player. I have a Philips model that plays MPEG2 off a DVD-ROM (not DVD-Video) just fine at the 2GB per hour setting. |
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kdhamann,
Is your DVD player by chance the Philips DVP-642? This is the one that cost $70 or so and can playback DIVX/MPEG-4. I was thinking about buying this DVD player, but I haven't been able to figure out for sure if it will play MPEG-2 files. I know it play MPEG-4/Divx files but I haven't been able to confirm for sure whether it will play MPEG-2. |
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I have the Philips Q35. I did a little searching on the dvp-642 and found this review.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Philips_DVP6...VP642&part=rss At least one person comments that it will play almost anything the person has tried including mpeg. If a brick and mortar store is nearby that sells the dvp-642, it might be worthwhile to make a test cd and/or dvd and test the demo unit in the store. I got the Q35 on clearance for $35, then later had made some dvdroms for the computer and decided to try it in the Q35 and they worked... I hope that's of some help, although I have no direct experience with the dvp-642. |
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Thanks very much for your help and posting that review, kdhamann. Sorry for the long delay.
I just wanted to post back and say that I bought the DVP-642 and it does play raw MPEG-2 files. Unfortunately, it has some problems. It has trouble playing any files over 2GB. It seems to work fine as long as all of the files on a disk are under 2GB. Another problem is that it has trouble reading my DVD-R's. I have one other DVD player and 2 DVD drives and they have no trouble at all playing my DVD-R's. I wish I would have took your advice and bought it locally, but I bought it online. Anyway, I just wanted to come back and report on this in case anyone is considering buying this player. The second problem could be just a manufacturing problem, but the first one is a software problem so I don't think it could be fixed. I'm going to send it in to see what they can do. |
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