MEP DVD/BD Burn Menu

jak.willis wrote on 1/26/2022, 3:50 PM

Hello,

I have some TV recordings that I would like to burn on to either a DVD or BD, and I have created a custom disc menu to go with it. I would like to do this using Smart Render as I don't want any further quality loss, but the issue I've got is that the resolution of the recordings are 544x576. So because of this I am unable to use Smart Render because the export resolution doesn't match the source resolution. Is there any way to manually change the export resolution to 544x576 from within the burn menu? I can't seem to find a way to change it. If you select "DVD" then it is locked on the DVD preset, and if you select "Blu-ray" then it gets locked on the Blu-ray preset. Is there any way around this? Or if not then is there another way that I can simply burn the files to a disc but still using the same custom disc menu that I've created?

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johnebaker wrote on 1/27/2022, 3:30 AM

@jak.willis

Hi Jak

The resolution you are wanting is not DVD standard compliant, resolutions of 352 x 288, 352 x 576, 704 x 576 and 720 x 576 are compliant.

There are a few 'hacks' which would create a DVD for 544 x 576 resolution however as it is non standard the player will reject it as being unplayable/unsupported.

. . . . I have some TV recordings . . . .

Is this a Digital Video Broadcast recording?

If so what were they recorded with and are they .ts, .mts, .mpg or .vob files?

If they are 'stream' files ie .ts or .mts or mpg they may not be in the necessary MPG file format as DVB can also be MPEG-2, h.264/AVC, VC1 or h.265 (HEVC).

A MediaInfo analysis of one of the video files will tell you the encoding format.

Re-encoding is going to be necessary to create a compliant DVD disc.

John EB

jak.willis wrote on 1/27/2022, 12:02 PM

@jak.willis

Hi Jak

The resolution you are wanting is not DVD standard compliant, resolutions of 352 x 288, 352 x 576, 704 x 576 and 720 x 576 are compliant.

There are a few 'hacks' which would create a DVD for 544 x 576 resolution however as it is non standard the player will reject it as being unplayable/unsupported.

. . . . I have some TV recordings . . . .

Is this a Digital Video Broadcast recording?

If so what were they recorded with and are they .ts, .mts, .mpg or .vob files?

If they are 'stream' files ie .ts or .mts or mpg they may not be in the necessary MPG file format as DVB can also be MPEG-2, h.264/AVC, VC1 or h.265 (HEVC).

A MediaInfo analysis of one of the video files will tell you the encoding format.

Re-encoding is going to be necessary to create a compliant DVD disc.

John EB

Hi John,

The original DVB broadcasts are .ts

The copies that I am hoping to put on a disc were first copied from my Panasonic recorder onto a Blu-ray disc and then copied over to the computer hard drive and imported into MEP. So the format of the ones taken from the Blu-ray disc are M2TS.

But once I ripped the files from the disc and placed them on to the computer hard drive, I first had to convert them to MPEG-2 using a no re-encoding program called “AVS Remaker”. The reason for this is because, for some reason, if I import the m2ts files into MEP then either some of the video is missing or it just doesn’t work properly.

johnebaker wrote on 1/27/2022, 4:28 PM

@jak.willis

Did you try importing the DVB .ts files from the DVB recorder - I copy the .ts files which are stored on an external hard drive attached to the satellite receiver, to my PC and import them directly with no issues.

John EB

jak.willis wrote on 1/28/2022, 4:38 AM

@jak.willis

Hi

Did you try importing the DVB .ts files from the DVB recorder - I copy the .ts files which are stored on an external hard drive attached to the satellite receiver, to my PC and import them directly with no issues.

John EB

Hi,

Yes, but I still get the same issues.

jak.willis wrote on 1/29/2022, 6:55 AM

@jak.willis

Hi

Did you try importing the DVB .ts files from the DVB recorder - I copy the .ts files which are stored on an external hard drive attached to the satellite receiver, to my PC and import them directly with no issues.

John EB

So do you know if there is any way to burn these discs with the 544x576 resolution? You mentioned a few “hacks”.

jak.willis wrote on 2/1/2022, 9:39 AM

@jak.willis

Hi

Did you try importing the DVB .ts files from the DVB recorder - I copy the .ts files which are stored on an external hard drive attached to the satellite receiver, to my PC and import them directly with no issues.

John EB

Perhaps the only thing I can do is to convert the m2ts files to MPEG-2? Although that will mean some loss of quality, but I don't think I can do anything about that, can I?