Best program to simply burn an .MPG (MPEG-2)? No menus, etc

[sofakng]

I've been fooling around with DVD-lab for creating DVD's with menus, etc and it's a great program.

However, I'm wondering what program would be best to simply burn an .MPG onto a DVD so when I stick my DVD into a player it will start playing the movie.

I don't want any menus or anything. Just a very simple DVD that plays the movie.

DVD-lab appears to be able to do this, but I'm not sure if that would be my best choice or not.

[wwaag]

sofakng

Get Ifoedit. It's free--see tools section. Works great. No menus, but you can easily add chapter points from a text file. I usually have a "standard" text file that puts a chapter point every 5 min, just to advance through the video very quickly in the even you accidentally hit the "stop" rather than "pause" button in the dark. Give it a try.

wwaag

[trossin]

dvdauthor 0.6 will do the job. It is free and command line based so you could make a script that will allow you to push a button and get the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories.

• 1. Split video and audio stream using TMPGen free copy or VOBrator or Rejig.
  2. Remerge video and audio stream with dvdauthor tool mplex:
  mplex -f 8 -o video1.mpg Source.m2v Source.ac3
  If the source had MPEG 1 layer 2 audio then change the last file to Source.mp2
  3. Make a simple xml file:
  
  

  <dvdauthor>
      <vmgm />
      <titleset>
          <titles>
              <pgc>
                  <vob file="video1.mpg" chapters="0,5:00" />
              </pgc>
          </titles>
      </titleset>
  </dvdauthor>

  
  Note: you need to manually list all the chapter points after the chapters= statement. The format is hours:minuteseconds.fraction.
  
  4. dvdauthor -x Simple.xml

There is also DVDAuthorGUI that may be a bit easier.

Ulead's Movie Factory will work as well but costs $40. If you already paid for DVD-Lab then I would suggest that you use it. If I recall correctly, it would take only a few steps:

• 1. Load MPEG file
  2. Drag movie and audio to Movie clip in the connections window
  3. Connect First Play and Title button to movie by drawing a line from each white circle to the movie clip.
  4. Compile
  5. Burn.

If you don't own DVD-Lab then buy something cheaper like Movie Factory.

[MOVIEGEEK]

The problem is few standalones will play ISO MPEG,most Chinese players(Apex,Mintek,Cyberhome,etc) will.Most standalones will only recognize MPEG's in file mode(IFO,BUP,VOB).
I use Ulead Videostudio 6 to author and make chapters then use DVDShrink to remove menus and transcode.