Elementary Streams VS System Streams

[dochase]

I have seen many guides for encoding dv avi's to dvd mpeg. Is there really a need to convert to elementary streams instead of one file mpg files. These are home movies I have taken with a Canon Elura 60 digital camcorder.

It just seems alot easier to convert to single file mpg's for authoring than going through the trouble of dealing with 2 separate files for video and audio.

I use TMPGenc Plus 2.5 for encoding and TMPGenc DVD Author 1.6 to author.

Thanks

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[guns1inger]

Many authoring programs prefer starting with elementary streams and muxing themselves. Some programs will take program streams, but will quietly demux them and remux them in the background anyway (I believe TDA does this, given the time it takes to compile a simple disc). Others will take a programs stream and run with it.

I believe the elementary streams are prefered as programs streams may hide nasties that cause problems later on, such as audio sync. By starting with ES's instead, these are eliminated.