Re: [Hampshire] DVB to DVD

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] DVB to DVD
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:38:32PM +0000, Chris Aitken wrote:
> >> For those in the know, what is the better way to transcode an mpeg DVB
> >> program stream to DVD vobs? It seems odd to me that an mpeg based PS
> >> shold take hours to transcode to vobs, when it is almost in the same
> >> data form already.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Chris
> >>
> >
> >Unfortunately, DVB is very different from DVD. They are both MPEG-2,
> >but they each have different restrictions of size of GOP, peak
> >bandwidth, processing buffer sizes, etc.
> >For example, DVB can go a long time without an I-frame (one tends to
> >see lots of P-frames), but a DVD can only go 0.7 seconds without an
> >I-frame.
>
> So would tools would one recommend to create the VOBs?
>


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