VCD-formatted mpegs (but not on an actual VCD) to DVD?

[ChaunceyK]

I see all these guides for burning multiple previously-made VCD's onto a single DVD, but my question is different from that.

I use TMPGenc Plus to encode all my video files to the VCD-format to begin with. So now I have a hard drive full of VCD-format files that haven't actually been burned to any VCD's. From what I've read, I should be able to fit 450 minutes of these onto a DVD.

What happens when I try doing this, is I can only get about 180 minutes on a DVD (I use Nero StartSmart, if that helps).

Is there a way I can re-format my VCD-ready files to fit the approximate 450 minutes of DVD I keep reading about? Or do I really need to actually burn them as vcd's, and then follow the guides? Seems there should be an easier way, but then again I'm no expert....

Thank you,

[teegee420]

Drop your mpegs into TMPGEnc DVD Author and let it resample the audio. That's pretty much it, dude.

[andyp1]

Once you have your mpeg1 files , you need authoring software like TMPGenc DVD Author to create the DVD.

[reboot]

The problem you are having, is Nero thinks you're actually making a dvd, not a non-standard VCD aspect/bitrate dvd, so it says it's going to re-encode all your video to 720x480 at a minimum of 4000kbps for dvd.
This is because Nero is not smart, no matter it's name, and should only be used for burning, nothing else.
Ulead DVD Movie factory, and DVDLab are two other good authoring programs that should not try and re-encode all your video.

[ChaunceyK]

Thank you, TMPGenc DVD Author seems to do the trick just fine in fitting far more VCD files than the usual DVD should hold.

Now I have a new question. In authoring my dvd, I want the Menu screen to have 2 buttons...one button to "Play All", and another to "Select Chapter." Instead I keep getting "Play All" & the second button seems to default to the first chapter.

If it helps, all "chapters" are being viewed by the program as being part of the same "track."

Thank you again,

[reboot]

Another reason I suggested DVDLab. Tmpgenc can't do what you want.
You might be able to manually edit the ifo and bup files to accomplish it...beyond me though, sorry.

[andyp1]

Chaunceyk is this the idea of what you want to do.

Main menu (Three Films on one DVD)

Play all button plays the disc straight through.

Click on the pic of the first film and you get a chapter list and a play button for film 1


Click on the pic of the second film and you get


and the third film


The return button takes you back to the main menu.
If that's the idea of what you want to do you just edit the menu theme
You can add you own pics in the background , the chapters are all moving menus.
I like what it does I think it does a pretty good job.

This was one of the first multi film disc I tried and you can mess around with text and positioning etc.

[reboot]

That's exactly what I do in dvdlab, sometimes with multiple chapters menus even.
It works splendidly for multi-mode dvdr (dvd, (S)VCD all on one disk).

[ChaunceyK]

Thank you all so much, I believe this solves my problems.