Having trouble with converting section

[|Supreme|]

I'm trying to find a list of guides for converting mpeg to vob's. When I search I wind up with nothing. Is this feature broken now?

[yoda313]

Hello,

You can't do it directly. At least not if you want it to work properly on a dvd.

You COULD try doing it in a dos command prompt by saying copy file1.mpg file1.vob. Don't know it it will work properly.

BUT you REALLY need to author the mpeg to dvd for proper compatibility.

Kevin

(check THIS guide for dvd authoring )

[|Supreme|]

My friend told me you could. I'm pretty sure you can somehow. I just can't find the guides. Usually I can find plenty of guide sfor most stuff.

[wwjd]

If there is a way to convert mpeg to vob then it is a pretty well kept secret.

TMPGenc DVD Author is an excellent moderately priced authoring app that is very fast and easy to use. It takes TDA about 20 minutes to author 2hours of compliant mpeg into vobs.

[lordsmurf]

Author.

[|Supreme|]

What about .avi files. Thats what I mean't actually. Also you can add chapters too? Also when I go to convert, than avi to vob. It doesn't show me any guides.

[|Supreme|]

I want to convert 2-4 small less than a gig .avi files into one dvd. I don't want to make one of the files 4 times the size it originally was. It seems unnecessary.

[bugster]

You need to do some reading.

It looks you you are trying to take avi files and have them play on a DVD player.

If thats correct, the you need to.

1) convert - to DVD complinat mpeg-2.
2) Author - take the mpegs and produce Vobs, add chapters and menus
3) Burn - put the vobs etc on to your DVDr

There are tools that do it all for you, but they tend to be limited in what they can actually do. However they may be a good starting point for someone like yourself.

[Soopafresh]

vso divxtodvd

[|Supreme|]

I know how to author to DVD. I figured there were 2 ways to have these .avi's play on a dvd player. Convert directly to VOB. or convert to mpeg 1/2 first, and than to vob.

I have a question about the converting to mpeg though. I have tmpgenc, but theres so many settings you can change. Is there anyway to convert more with ease. Settings like interlaced and not, make converting from .avi to mpeg confusing. I always think the mpeg version will turn out with worser quality.

[|Supreme|]

vso divxtodvd

Thanks.. seems like a good program. But are you able to burn 3-4 divx movies on one dvd?

[bugster]

I know how to author to DVD.

You could have fooled me

[|Supreme|]

I know how to author from mpeg to dvd-mpeg. In the beginning I mentioned the wrong thing. Sorry.

I was wondering I'm using winavi to convert to mpeg. The quality doesn't look as good as the original .avi. I put the setting at higher quality and it was 300 megabytes larger than the original file. Making it a gig.

Kind of sucks, is there no way to make it look just like an .avi? Only option I can see now is to just author the .avi to a full size dvd. Or to purchase a dvd player that plays .avi's.

[ZippyP.]

An avi can have just about any type of compression, I assume your avi is divx. If so then it compresses much more than a similar quality mpeg. Can an mpeg and an avi be the same file size and look the same? Yes, possibly. Can an mpeg and a divx avi be the same file size and look the same? Probably not.

[|Supreme|]

Well how much more do you think the mpeg file would have to be? Double or triple?

[ZippyP.]

Well how much more do you think the mpeg file would have to be? Double or triple?

Yes.