Burning dvds...

[Immortal25]

Just a question, must we always author a dvd just to view the movie within? I mean can we skip the menus, chapters and stuff?
Reason here is I have a divx movie and I want to convert it to dvd. All I want is to view it on the tv with good dvd quality and stuff. I don't really need the menus and stuff. So, is it possible to just transfer a mpeg-2 video onto a dvd, burn it and just view it?

I've found that creating a dvd is more complicated than vcd... With vcd usually Nero would just burn a vcd for me with a single click of the button. But it seems that when I want to burn a dvd I need to create some dvd files first and then put it into the videoTS folder???

Much work indeed....because like I said, all I wanted was to view the movie in mpeg-2 format...

Anyway, my question is, any program that could just convert the movie into the dvd files so that I can drag them into the video folder and thus, burning the dvd? what program do you guys recommend? I have Nero Vision Express...but there's no guide here on how to use it? Thanks all. I've also heard of DVD-Lab? Good?

[fmctm1sw]

I think DVD lab is very good. As for the MPEG files, my Apex player would play raw mpegs on a disk. But that may have been before I started making DVDs. It worked on CDs. You may just have to try an RW disk and see if your player will do it.

[jimmalenko]

The difference between VCD and DVD that you are experiencing is the authoring stage - Nero does it for you with VCD-compliant MPEGs. You need to manually author your MPEG-2 file (authoring simply creates your IFOs, BUPs and VOBs). You can author so that the main feature plays on startup without any menus or anything.

[Immortal25]

One question guys, i need to convert my divx into a dvd, and I need to choose either ntsc or pal.... but my frame is 23. So what category does that fall into??? ntsc is 29 and pal is 25...?

[yoda313]

Hello,
What type of tv system do you use? Professional discs (ones you buy) will say ntsc or pal. If you buy pal convert to pal.
Kevin

[Immortal25]

Isn't it dependant on the source video? Hmm...

[jimmalenko]

One question guys, i need to convert my divx into a dvd, and I need to choose either ntsc or pal.... but my frame is 23. So what category does that fall into??? ntsc is 29 and pal is 25...?

I'm guessing the frame rate's 23.976fps ?

If so, this is an NTSC FILM stream. You need to convert to NTSC 23.976fps, but specify a "3:2 pulldown on playback" when converting to MPEG-2, which means that it will fool the player into thinking it is a 29.97fps NTSC stream.