MPGs to dvd-r

[shelbyboy]

I have been reading untill I am blurry. Maybee someone can give me the straight answer here. I have quite a few MPGs that I created for VCD using Kwag templates. I would like to put several on a DVD-R with a selection menu. I have seen the blurp about reencoding the sound to 48k (what tool?) but would like to know what else I need to do. The VCDs play fine in my stand alone. I want to combine several on a single DVD.
Any advice is greatly apreciated!
SB

[bugster]

take a look at this:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr.htm

but just a FYI, some of kwags templates are not fully VCD compliant and so are likley to be non-DVD compliant and so may or may not work when authored to DVD and played on your standalone DVD player.

[wulf109]

Tmpeg can demultiplex the .dat file into m1v and mp2 streams,it can also handle the re-sampling of the audio to 48000. Just change the mp2 extension to mpa on the new audio file. Be sure the file name is the same,i.e. test.m1v and test.mpa and any authoring program that supports mpeg audio will import them.

[shelbyboy]

I still have the original MPG files I creatted to make the VCD. Do they have to be demuxed as well?
Thanks for the help folks!
SB

[wulf109]

Demuxing is the best way even from the mpg. If you demux you only need to resample the audio. the video stream can be used as is in your authoring software. If there from VCd's the resolution should be 352x240 which is a valid resolution for DVD.

[kwag]

Hi shelbyboy,

Go here: http://kickme.to/DVDPatcher and download DVDPatcher.
After you demux your stream, run this program to patch the mpeg headers, and fool just about any DVD authoring program to think the mpeg ( Size, bit rate , etc. ) is something else

I encoded a movie with KVCDx3 MPEG-2 ( Changed MAX GOP to 18 ) just for the hell of it, patched it with this program, and burned it with Ulead's DVD Workshop on a DVD-R.
It plays great on my five (different brands) DVD players. So even though KVCDx3 is 528x480 ( non-standard resolution ), it did work. I can put 3 full length ( ~2 hour ) movies with this method on one DVD-R 8)

Hope this helps. Use your imagination and think of all the things you will be able to do on a DVD-R 8)

-kwag

[now3d]

does anyone know whre i can get English instructions for this?

[kitty]

Last time I looked http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr.htm was English although it might have one or 2 Swedlish words in there

[shelbyboy]

DVDpatcher looks like a good utility but has MPEG2 all over it. I am using (have used) one of the pal MPG1 templates, usually at 23.9 frames a second ,film. The DVD patcher did read in the file, I left all settings at default, and MYDVD still choked on it. Any other ideas to get MPG 1 files onto a DVD to play on the standalone?
By the way KWag, downloaded the 720X480 DVD template and it looks great and MYDVD accepted the output. I do think that it converted the audio though. About a Gig was added to the file size when it was imported. Does KDVD preserve AC3?
Thanks for the help!

[joepic]

Any other ideas to get MPG 1 files onto a DVD to play on the standalone?
By the way KWag, downloaded the 720X480 DVD template and it looks great and MYDVD accepted the output. I do think that it converted the audio though. About a Gig was added to the file size when it was imported. Does KDVD preserve AC3?

Did you look at these GUIDES?

VCD and SVCD on DVD-Rs
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/svcd2dvdr.htm

How to put VCD(s) on a DVD with no reconverting of the video
www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr

How to put SVCD(s) on a DVD with no reconverting of the video
www.vcdhelp.com/svcddvdr

[shelbyboy]

Read em both. I think my problem may be that I have built my MPGS with Kwags templates but them modified them to output at 23.9 frame rate (to match the original). The guide says in note number 5 that the process only works with 25 or 29 FPS. So I search on.
Thanks for the reference though.
SB

[kwag]

By the way KWag, downloaded the 720X480 DVD template and it looks great and MYDVD accepted the output. I do think that it converted the audio though. About a Gig was added to the file size when it was imported. Does KDVD preserve AC3?
Thanks for the help!

Don't use TMPEG to encode your audio. Just encode your video stream with TMPEG, and afterwards multiplex your original extracted AC3 file and your encoded video with BBMpeg. This way, you'll preserve the original audio

-kwag

[Duck Dork]

take a look at this:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcddvdr.htm

but just a FYI, some of kwags templates are not fully VCD compliant and so are likley to be non-DVD compliant and so may or may not work when authored to DVD and played on your standalone DVD player.

Thank You Bugster!!!

This is exactly what I have been looking for

DD

[Duck Dork]

I can put 3 full length ( ~2 hour ) movies with this method on one DVD-R

I can get the movies on there, but I would like to make chapters on each movie.

Is that possible?

Problem is, my dvd player won't save position with out the chapters or time stamp...

Thanks for any help you can offer.


DD

[kwag]

I can put 3 full length ( ~2 hour ) movies with this method on one DVD-R

I can get the movies on there, but I would like to make chapters on each movie.

Is that possible?

You can use ChapterXtractor to read your .ifo file, and then copy the chapter times to your DVD authoring software. You're going to have to enter the times manually , but you'll have the exact chapter points from your original DVD

-kwag

[Duck Dork]

I have been trying to cram 3 movies onto a dvd+r and have a hang up on the Ulead DVD movie factory.

I have 3 mpeg files here that combine equal 4.3G. When I import into Movie Factory, it expands files to double their origional size???

I am using TMPGEnc to Demux and then re mux. then put into mpeg file.

I am using this KWAG template with a few little tweaks.


KVCD-LBR-352x240-_NTSCFilm-180min cd-_-PLUS.mcf




Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

(If I need to post the details of the settings, I will)

[Duck Dork]

You can use ChapterXtractor to read your .ifo file, and then copy the chapter times to your DVD authoring software. You're going to have to enter the times manually , but you'll have the exact chapter points from your original DVD

Thanks KWAG,

I figured it out in DVD Movie factory I can make my own. I don't so much care that theu hit the same points the DVD did, as to just be able to save my spot on player...

DD