Friday, July 18, 2003

Roxio DVD Creator

Word on the forums is that it (a) re-encodes the video files that you give it and (b) encodes those files at the top-end rate / highest quality bitrate which is 70Mb/min. That means you only get around 70 min of video on a Roxio created DVD-R. Sooo... I'll probably muck with it as a starting point, then switch to TMPGEnc or something else (supposedly, it's possible to build DVDs in a more manual fashion.

Update: Created a quick-n-dirty DVD-RW disk using the Roxio software... not bad results. The only thing I don't like about the software so far is that you can't set your bitrates for your clips (which limits you to ~70min). As expected, the disc didn't work on my old Toshiba DVD (SD-2109) player, but works fine on the newer Sony DVD player. The Toshiba DVD player is pretty old, so it doesn't surprise me much (I should look and see if there is fixes or updates).

posted by Wuphon's at 11:09 PM