TMPGEnc Dvd Authoring

[bigjimmpls]

I have a question for you guys. I see that a lot of people are using DVD Author to convert there files. I have a lot of mpeg2 files I want to convert but everytime I go to use DVD Author it takes a 1 gig mpeg and says it is to large for DVD. It will make the VOB files like 14-16 gig. Is that normal? Or once done do you use dvd shrink to reduce. Just a curious observance and would really like to get it to work. Any suggestions?

[rcb]

Something is out of whack. TDA (TMPGEnc DVD Author) does not normally expand dvd compliant mpeg files unless it has to do audio conversion - which might add some 10-20%...

but not 1 gig to 15 gigs.

What is the source of your mpeg files and how were they encoded ?

[bigjimmpls]

rcb,

They were done off a tv card and they were encoded with TMPGEnc. I used TMPGENC and converted the audio and video and then used ifoedit anf got it to work. But sure would like to fix the problem.

[rcb]

what was your reason/need for using ifoedit on the already encoded mpg file from TMPGEnc ?

If encoded correctly by TMPGEnc, that mpg file should have gone right in to TDA for authoring/burning..

[bigjimmpls]

rcb,

Because I couldn'g get TDA to make video files smaller than about 14 gig. So I just circumvented TDA. I didnt have any other choice. I needed to get them on dvd. I just know it didnt work for me. Will try it again when I have more time.

[rcb]

Understand.

Holler back on this thread when you need..