TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6 re-encoded source video???

andy

Hi all,

This is absolutely weird!!! I'm evaluating TDA 1.6 at the moment and I've tried to re-author some VOB files and I'm pretty sure authoring s/w is not supposed to change (re-encode) the source video since it's not an encoder but when I playback the authored VOB file, I noticed a drop in video bitrate (even ran it through bitrate viewer to check)!!! The resultant VOB filesize is definitely smaller than the original.

So, I decided to try authoring with Sonic MyDVD instead and it produced the correct VOB file (playback video bitrate same as the original).

I'm wondering if anyone has experienced anything like this before or if this a weird bug/problem with TDA 1.6???

Any comments/help much appreciated, many thanks in advance.