Second authoring program yielded same result. As you noted before, my files seem to run on the anamorphic side. I started with burn, worked great for what it does, however, there are only 4:3 and 16:9 for choices. This is the third authoring software that i have gone through on Mac so far. I do use home streaming, with ATV but where these videos are for, this cannot be done. Maybe a different approach will be more useful to you. My Sony Blu-ray player can also play video in certain formats from a data disc which doesn't require any re-encoding. Many TVs also can play videos in certain formats from a USB flash drive. Why are you wanting to burn a disc with this video? If you want to play it on a HDTV there are many ways now to stream the video from a hard drive to the TV. If you are making a standard video DVD you should expect it to look lower quality than the high-definition source video. You can find the Blu-ray resolution specs here. If you have the Toast Blu-ray plugin and are making a Blu-ray HD video disc I don't know whether Toast must re-encode it. Since that is a HD video it must be re-encoded to become a SD video for a standard video DVD which is 720x480 (although your video will be anamorphic 16:9 in that resolution). Your 1280x544 resolution is non standard. But the audio either needs to be AC3 or PCM to play on a standard video DVD or Blu-ray video disc. If you like Handbrake's MPEG 2 encoding better, go for it. I don't use Handbrake so I don't have personal experience with comparing differences in quality with Toast. A lot of users like Handbrake's MPEG 2 encoding. Since your video is 1280x544 rather than 1280x720 Toast may be having trouble during rescaling. If Toast changes the frame rate then that can cause trouble, too. There can be some unwelcome artifacts during fast motion scenes or when there are high-contrast edges such as a chain-link fence or car chrome. Toast shouldn't have dropped any frames when encoding. Also, i did not say it earlier but thank you for the quick response. So basically, what are the requirements for Toast to accept an MPEG-2 without a re-encode. When Toast encodes my videos (M4vs typically which are at 30 FPS), for some reason Toast keeps kicking them down to 23.997. The specs for my mpeg2s are 1280-544, 23.98 FPS Dolby digital 48000 Hz. This is a standard DVD, and i have tried multiple DVDs, after reading your post about using the "Memorex" type disk. You may be right on the audio, but my last try was ac3 192 kbps dolby surround. Now i have spent a couple of weeks of tweaking settings on both Handbrake and Toast, trying to get the settings just right, where all it would need to do is multiplex and burn, but still no luck. So i found on one post that if you had an mpeg2 file, it would not need to be converted. If anyone can enlighten me on what specifically is needed to keep Toast from re-encoding, i would be overwhelmed with joy.Īt first, I let Toast convert all of my files from m4v to mpeg2, which ended up taking a lot longer, and less quality than Handbrake did, and that was when i was having the original issues with skipped frames/dropped frames. So far i the best i have tried is MPEG2, 23.997 frames per second, AAC audio 192 kbps dolby digital. So my final question, is what are the settings needed on a video file, so that when i select NEVER REENCODE, it will actually listen. Even while using a MPEG2 that is clean, Roxio can't help itself, and just re-encodes it to a lesser quality, which is pixalated and poor quality. Every DVD i have made, is sub-par video quality. After realizing this, i was ecstatic, but still have one more issue to resolve. This caused a dropped/skipped frame very often, and very noticeably. Roxio seems to use a frame rate of 23.997, where as the videos i was trying to burn were in a 30 fps (frames per second). My problem specifically was tied to frame rate. After a few weeks of trying to burn a stutter free DVD with Roxio Toast 11, i came across a thread noting some of the culprits for this problem.
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