PLEASE rescue me from Sonic DVDit!

[Bubblevision]

Anyone know some software that can author a DVD without a menu (i.e. "autostart") from .m2v video and .WAV audio?

Sonic DVDit! PE 2.5 will do it but I hate it's instability and interface and I'm sure it's responsible for some of my DVD-R's skipping towards the end in some players.

Cheers

[bugster]

Anyone know some software that can author a DVD without a menu (i.e. "autostart") from .m2v video and .WAV audio?

Sonic DVDit! PE 2.5 will do it but I hate it's instability and interface and I'm sure it's responsible for some of my DVD-R's skipping towards the end in some players.

Cheers

I ahve yet to see a DVD authoring package that doesn't allow you to specify your single video file as first play, though maybe not all accept seperate .m2v and .wav files. In that case simply mux them together with TmpGenc first.

As for it causing skipping towards the end, I find that unlikley, more likley a combination of media and DVD player. If you don't believe me or are simply unsure, use DVDit to produce a title set on HD and then burn with Nero or your favourite burning program and see if the problem goes away. If it does its down (at least in part) to DVDits' burning engine.

Hope this helps.

[jtor]

Anyone know some software that can author a DVD without a menu (i.e. "autostart") from .m2v video and .WAV audio?

IFOEDIT....

[jtor]

...I overlooked that your audio is WAV; not sure if IFOEDIT will accept that (haven't tried it yet)....

[Bubblevision]

Thanks guys.

bugster, I have only found DVDit! that can accept .m2v and .WAV as the first play. Unfortunately TMPGenc won't won't mux .WAV and because I am making several different DVD's each week I cannot really afford the added time of converting to .mp2 and then muxxing. Because my DVD's are usually only 30 minutes I would like to keep the quality of the .WAV

jtor, I tried IFOEDIT as it seemed like the obvious answer but the audio on the resulting DVD played fine but the video was speeded up (perhaps double speed) and jumpy. I would love to know why. I tried this with a PAL mpeg2 from CCE and a NTSC mpeg2 from Procoder.

[Tilandra]

Try Dazzle DVD Complete. Fairly inexpensive, and will use any compliant file for first play except AC3 files. There is a demo.

http://www.dazzle.com/main.html

I chose them because I liked their menu structures a lot better than other packages.

[Bubblevision]

Thanks for that.

I liked the sound of DVD Complete, and many people say that it's untuitive to use, but when I tried the online demo about 5 months ago it was HORRIBLY unstable and I couldn't get anything done.

Maybe things have changed but I'd need proof before buying.

[Tilandra]

Well, I guess all I can say is try the demo again

Frankly, right now DVD Complete is more stable for *me* than my stupid OS.... but don't get me started :P

It helps to have a LOT of free drive space when using it... I'm talking 20 gig or more. It seems to like a lot of breathing room. Other than that, I've only had it lock up very rarely, and that was on troublesome captures to begin with.

[Bob W]

http://www.mediostream.com/products/neodvdplus/index.html

This program actually does what they say it does. Also it's very fast.

[Bubblevision]

Tilandra, I will try the Dazzle DVD Complete demo again. Thanks.

Bob W, NeoDVD certainly looks cheap and straighforward but it doesn't appear to support my .WAV files. And no demo. Do you know if it supports an "autostart" DVD without a menu?

By the way NeoDVD's integrated PAL<->NTSC conversion for $29.99 looks incredibly cheap. I wonder if it's any good. Too late for me now I've spent $700 on Procoder.