Selecting Movie Settings with VP X16

rickduley wrote on 8/25/2024, 6:16 PM

I have VP X16 (22.0.1.219).
My PC is
Dell Inc. OptiPlex 3070
Bios Version 1.25.0
Date 12/13/2023
Motherboard Manufacturer Dell Inc.
Model 07WP95
Version A01
Operating System
Edition Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (64-bit)
Version (Build) 23H2 (10.0.22635)
DVD Burner in use is LG GP60NB50 and the driver is up-to-date.

I am in Australia and am converting video recorded from free-to-air TV in MTS format to DVD.

When starting a new project I am offered

UHD/UHD-2
Social Media
HDTV
360°
SD PAL/NTSC

I have always selected HDTV with Full HD 1080p. Unfortunately I frequently waste a Disc by getting a Dialog telling me,
Burning was aborted with the following error:
Internal error while processing
Write error while accessing disc

Here is a representative Log File https://1drv.ms/u/c/bb228147f3dd175d/EZy15f9Ez01DroiSxbM6i8sBow7_zgby3WQletlcdufz0Q?e=LGx2nW

Has anyone any idea what is going wrong?

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emmrecs wrote on 8/27/2024, 3:30 AM

@rickduley

Hi Rick,

Coming a little late to this party... but certain data presented in your posts strike me as requiring some comment.

DVD, by format definition, can only ever be SD (Standard Definition). It is a common misconception that DVDs are "High Definition". Hence, your 1920 x 1080 original footage can only ever be 720 x 576 on disc, unless you use the option to burn to AVCHD disc, but its storage capacity is then limited (a maximum of about 30 minutes playing time) and the discs require a BD drive to play them.
I note the original file has an additional audio track and a text track. I don't think VPX will "cough" at that additional audio but I am not sure how it will handle the text track.
I am also struck by the very low bit rate of the original, given it is said to be in BD format.
Just pure speculation on my part: but I wonder if the "gap" at the beginning of your original file was actually the data which contained the Teletext and Visual Impaired Commentary. If so, again I suspect VPX would not know how to handle it.

I hope other users will continue to "chime in" on this but I think, since your final output (to DVD) can only ever be Standard Definition I would be tempted to run the file through a convertor, like Handbrake, and produce a more standard mp4 (at that higher resolution 1920 x 1080) and then try using that in VPX to burn a disc.

If the burn still fails this will only lose you some additional time (!!) but you will still have your original footage (and the converted mp4) to continue to play with!

Jeff
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rickduley wrote on 8/27/2024, 7:39 AM

@AAProds, is that the information you wanted? I just cut-and-pasted the text report. Is there something else you were looking for?

rickduley wrote on 8/27/2024, 7:41 AM

@emmrecs, I have downloaded HandBrake-1.8.2-x86_64-Win_GUI.exe and will install and try in the morning.

AAProds wrote on 8/27/2024, 9:18 AM

@rickduley

Rick, no, that's great.

A quicker thing to try before you do a complete re-render would be to change the MTS into an MP4 with AVIDemux; my guide here. In addition to that, on the Audio menu, choose "Select track" and untick everything except track 1.

Then, do a Save. AVIDemux should simply re-write the file header data and produce an MP4 quite quickly.

Import that into VPX and see if it renders all the way through during the Burn process.

If that fails, you can continue to use AVIDemux to do a full re-render or Handbrake, but that will come later.

johnebaker wrote on 8/27/2024, 12:47 PM

@rickduley

Hi Rick, Al

@AAProds commented

A quicker thing to try before you do a complete re-render would be to change the MTS into an MP4 with AVIDemux

I agree partly with this, however I would advise a full re-render.

Testing with a MTS file and a MP4 file with the same video and audio formats as your original mts file, both burns to ISO file took just over 1 hr each! The movie was only 1min 28 sec long.

Conversion of the MTS file to MP4 AVC/AAC and burning this file took 1min 12 secs to encode and create ISO image.

HTH

John EB

rickduley wrote on 8/27/2024, 5:00 PM

I have Handbrake running

and it looks like taking a couple of hours to generate the MP4. However, there are other things I can do - like housekeeping! 😖

rickduley wrote on 8/28/2024, 7:04 AM

Just watched Thirteen Days.

About seven hours of processing;
Movie ran just fine;
Mild soft focus - acutance not as high as usual;
Proves that VPX16 talks to my active DVD Drive.