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Artec T1 with Twinhan Software
Thought this might benefit from separating from the other Artec stuff.
First problem .. the recording schedule seems "fragile", for example if you touch certain things on the PC while it's starting at timed recording, it sometimes stops the recording. If it does this, it also removes any other scheduled recordings on the list.
Tony S
First problem .. the recording schedule seems "fragile", for example if you touch certain things on the PC while it's starting at timed recording, it sometimes stops the recording. If it does this, it also removes any other scheduled recordings on the list.
Tony S
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The only thing which I had to work out is the field order of the interlaced files, which seems to be top field first and this results in a jerky DVD if you don't adjust your authoring software to expect it. My DV camcorder outputs bottom field first, so this caught me by surprise.
Putting a 720x576 or 704x576 video file onto DVD is now very easy. I just wish the channels which broadcast in 544x576 didn't, as the whole video needs re-encoding, which takes ages. It's surprising that some of the shopping and music channels broadcast in full 'D1' resolution and yet several of the ITV and C4 extra channels don't. The E4 & E4+1 resolution difference is very odd indeed!
Editing channels now works, as I couldn't get it to with the previous Twinhan software, so you can delete channels from the master list, or display only those you choose to in the favourites list. Much nicer than the Artec original software.
Most DVD players are happy to play almost anything and should handle 544 without problem. More than likely its your DVD authoring program that is tripping you up. Look into dvdpatcher.
Anyone have a clue what's going on here?
Tony S
Still can't persuade it to record C4, E4 or More 4 though, but I see that Twinhan have moved some of their software on to v2.611, so maybe the DTT USB version will also do so soon and hope this fixes this glitch.