peter

Guys
My son has about 15 mpgs that he wants to put on a dvd.
We have tried putting them on as data, but the dvd player wont play them.
What do we have to do so we can watch them on a dvd player on tv?
Thanks for all your help
Much appreciated
Cheers

mark burns

Peter:

You will need an authoring program. There are a couple of free ways to
go, but they are quite difficult and very time consuming using
applications such as IfoEdit.

The best authoring package for the money in my book is TmpgEnc DVD
Author, download for $68.

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda.html

Its only purpose in life is to create DVD's. It is easy to get started
with, but can be creatively expanded to fit a wide variety of needs.

There are other packages that offer more for more, but also much more
complicated.

You can try the above for 30 days to see if it fits your needs.

Side note. The mpegs must be DVD compliant for any authoring package
to work properly.

Cheers.

Mark

peter

what do we do if they are not dvd compliant ??
thx

miles ahead

I already had TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 so the approach I took
when I got a PC with a DVD burner is to convert to
DVD using TMPGEnc Plus and output to separate
audio and video files for each title(at the last step
when you name the output file in the wizard there's a
checkbox.)

Then I use the freeware DVDAuthorGUI to author the DVD.
Esp. if you don't need menus it's very easy to use. I recommend
setting it to produce an .iso DVD image then burn with Nero or
another burner you know works on your PC.

For guides just go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com and
click on the Author button on the left.

Of course all of the above assumes you're using a PC
running some flavor of Windows such as XP.

miles ahead

I already had TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 so the approach I took
when I got a PC with a DVD burner is to convert to
DVD using TMPGEnc Plus and output to separate
audio and video files for each title(at the last step
when you name the output file in the wizard there's a
checkbox.)

Then I use the freeware DVDAuthorGUI to author the DVD.
Esp. if you don't need menus it's very easy to use. I recommend
setting it to produce an .iso DVD image then burn with Nero or
another burner you know works on your PC.

For guides just go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com and
click on the Author button on the left.

Of course all of the above assumes you're using a PC
running some flavor of Windows such as XP.

Oh, btw, here's the link to TMPEnc Plus 2.5
For $37 I think you'll get a lot of use out of
it. I've been using it for a few years now.

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/shopping/index.html

netmask

Download and try VSO DivX to DVD don't be put off by the name. Actually
handles
wmv, quicktime, mpeg, avi, dvd vob files, DivX, Xvid etc etc etc and
produces a DVD compliant output as a VIDEO_TS folder and AUDIO_TS folder.
It's quick and free

anthony horan

VSO's free "Divx To DVD" program will do the job - it doesn't just convert
Divx video, but also MPEG, Quicktime and Windows Media Video. Just feed
your files to it, hit "convert" and come back later to a finished, playable
DVD...

http://www.download.com/3000-7970_4-10341695.html

Incidentally, though the readme supplied with that software says it can't
convert multiple files at once, it actually can. Just select them, one at a
time, in the "source file" dialog. They will be converted in the order you
add them and placed on the resulting DVD as seperate, linked titles.


- Anthony

mark burns

Would need to know what that you are coming from and to?

Here is a good article:

http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.4

There are many good applications, some of the free, to convert mpeg
video from one format to another. PAL (Europe) is different than NTSC
(USA).

Cheers!

lookaaly

See if Photo2DVD will do what you want

jim hughes

.... Good Morning ...

.... thanks for the lead.
.... Photo2DVD will not work in my instance ... it will not take my two files
combine them and then create a DVD for TV.

Appreciate your concern & help.
Jim Hughes
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