MP4 on DVD

[donfife]

I am looking at a security system that captures video as an MP4. Does anyone know if I would run into any issues trying to make a DVD from a MP4? Should I be looking for a security capture DVR that saves video as Mpeg2 instead?

Any help in understanding how this would work would be helpful.

Don

[Soopafresh]

You can encode the MP4 to DVD via an app like ConvertXtoDVD

[donfife]

I am trying to avoid the step of converting the clips. Would DVD Studio Pro accept the MP4s and auto convert them during the authoring process?

Don

[_MrC_]

I am trying to avoid the step of converting the clips. Would DVD Studio Pro accept the MP4s and auto convert them during the authoring process?

Don

AVStoDVD (free) does what you need. Please be sure you have installed Haali Media Splitter and ffdshow to handle MP4 demuxing and decoding.

:wink:

Bye

[Baldrick]

Please post in the mac section if you would like "mac" answers. Moving you.

Avoid the converting? You must convert and convertxtodvd will convert and author to dvd. But as you have a mac it wont work...

[Herve]

I am trying to avoid the step of converting the clips. Would DVD Studio Pro accept the MP4s and auto convert them during the authoring process?

DVDSP can convert your mp4 to mpeg2+audio but, there is still a transcoding.
mp4 is not natively compatible with DVDplayer (if you have a special DVDPlayer compatible with mp4, just burn a disc with the mp4 to ISO-9960, if you don't have, you must transode it to mpeg2, there are a lot of softs to do that)

bye

[terryj]

I've seen Security systems that just use DVRs and record up to 8hrs
onto standard DVD-Rs. I'd advise going with that solution and cut out the middle man.

[Herve]

usually, they stored video as mpeg1 (but you can do a DVD-video with it too )
bye