Black Frames In DVD-A-Studio

Courtesy of Spidey wrote on 8/31/2010, 2:36 PM
Running a relatively quick XP-Pro machine with 2 gig of memory and plenty of internal disk space. Arctitect Studio version is 4.5, latest build. Input is avi files. Conversion of said files to DVD format with other products works fine and output is as expected. With Architect Studio, however, the vob files are plagued with random black frames of random (but short) duration, with the audio being unaffected. I render and burn with no other software running, just to be on the safe side. Has this been seen by others and if so, has any work-around been arrived at? Thanks for your attention.

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bStro wrote on 8/31/2010, 4:14 PM
What codec (or codecs) in those AVI files? The more compressed ones (like Divx, Xvid, etc) aren't entirely suited for editing / authoring because they save space by throwing away information. The editing / authoring app has to recoconstruct some frames by looking at adjacent ones and filling in the missing information. Sometimes, it doesn't work so well.

In addition, they're DirectShow codecs while Vegas and DVDA work better with Video For Windows codecs. What might help is if you install ffdshow, a program that, among other things, can help programs that expect VfW work better with DirectShow. You may need to configure it to do so -- been a while since I've had to set it up.

Rob
Courtesy of Spidey wrote on 9/1/2010, 9:16 AM
The codecs are all over the map, since the sources are as well. Some I have made from my cameras, some downloaded from the Internet, and some ripped from other DVDs. The majority are classic BBC TV shows gotten from (I confess) file sharing sources. I have many ways of creating single video DVDs and a handful of ways to create menu-driven DVDs. My hope was to concentrate on using DVDA to do everything. Sony recommended that I disable all startup processes and then test by re-enabling them one by one, rendering in between. I did the disable part and got some inconclusive good results, but definitive testing will take a very long time, since I have quite a few startup processes, rendering of course goes slowly, and I was getting mixed results even before the processes were disabled. More a black art than an exact science at this stage. Thank you for your quick and clear reply. I will look into ffdshow to see if it can be of any assistance. And so it goes - Don