newbie in need of some tlc

[darkvisor]

hi all, very new to this, i have now sorted out the ripping and burning of a dvd using dvdshrink 3.1 but now i have come to 1 step away from suicide

am i right in reading what everyone has put in saying that if i get TMPGEnc Plus DVD Author i can and it will convert from avi to the correct files for burning straight to DVD-R to play on a stand alone dvd player

upto now i have used Curusoft AVI to DVD,

what am i doing wrong, i have used this program and it has given me 3 files 2 x Elecard MPEG 2 Player files and 1 x Movie file (mpeg) opening with windows media player
i think im right in saying that the media play file is just audio but now im lost

what is Elcard and now what do i do, i have more coffee coasters than starbucks at the mo, need some help here

cheers to all

[andyp1]

TMPGenc Plus and TMPGenc DVD Author are to different programs.

TMPGenc Plus is an encoder and will convert your AVI's to Mpeg1 for VCD Mpeg2 for SVCD and Mpeg2 for DVD.

Once you have converted your file to Mpeg2 for DVD you will need to Author the DVD.

TMPGenc DVD Author will allow you to create Menu's and Chapters and will create a folder called a VIDEO_TS folder. which you can burn to a DVD-R.

With VCD and SVCD you can use something like NERO and burn the encoded file to a CD-R and play it.

With DVD you need to Author it first.

Hope this helps.

[darkvisor]

thanx for all that andy, just 1 more problem, i have burned to a dvd with excelleny quality but no sound, where did i go wrong

[andyp1]

It depends how you are doing it and what your source is.

If you are sticking your avi as is into TMPGenc , and encoding for DVD , the output will be a m2v (video) and wav (audio) file.

When you add your m2v to TDA it should pick up your audio file automatically.

If you have seperated the audio as ac3 (or converted the audio to ac3 or mp2 ) then you encode just the video to m2v.
When you open the m2v in TDA you will have to browse for your audio file.

Other than that , it is a case of working out at which point in the process your audio goes missing. For that you would need to describe your process.