[mythtv-users] MythArchive Mastered!!

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/05/2006 12:03 PM, Robert S. Kerr wrote:

>For those of us on this side of the pond, I found this over at 
>http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/How_to_Create_a_DVD
>
>NTSC:
>
>    * Video:
>          o Format mp2v (MPEG-2 Video), up to 9.8 Mbps
>          o Resolution of 720x480 (Full D1), 704x480, 352x480 (Half D1), 
>352x240 (same as VCD)
>          o 29.97 frames/sec
>    * Audio:
>          o Up to 8 audio tracks in the following formats. At least one 
>track must be in a52 or raw.
>                + mp2a Standard MPEG Audio.
>                + a52 AC3 Dolby Digital
>                + DTS Audio
>                + PCM Uncompressed (raw)
>          o Format: 48000 Hz, 32 - 1536 kbps
>
>So, I'm guessing if you set your capture card to do these settings you 
>can avoid the transcode for NTSC also.
>

But be careful.  You can follow all those rules and still come up with a 
non-compliant stream.  The total combined bitrate of all streams (audio 
and video and subtitles and ...) must be 10800 kbps or less.

Mike