Converting Muxed videos using Streamclip

[cfrei]

Hi - I have about 40 home movies that were on VHS that I have digitized into mpeg2 files. They are all muxed and I am trying to burn dvd's with them using IDVD. When I tried, there was no audio. When I tried converting them to DV files, they were too large to fit on a DVD and I don't know how to demuxe them. Can anyone help? I have streamclip as well as mpeg converter for mac. I'd like to keep the best quality possible (afterall, I started with VHS). I am open to converting to either DV or MPEG files so long as they play on stand alone DVD players.

Thanks,

Cindy

[Baldrick]

No audio on your standalone dvd player? What kind of audio does the mpeg2 contain? Identify with mediainfo if you are not sure.

Or try another mac dvd authoring tool like SmallDVD.

[cfrei]

IDVID, it seems, isn't compatible with muxed mpeg2 files so that when you burn the DVD, there is no audio. I am attaching an image of the properties window. Anyway, so I am trying to find a way to convert the files so that they are compatible with IDVD. I know that I can probably burn them with another piece of software but I have built a nice menu etc in IDVD which I would like to use. Thanks so much for your help.

[Case]

MPEG Streamclip allows you to demux .mpg files into .m2v video and .aiff audio. Hopefully iDVD will use those, so that there isn't any actual video conversion?

[Herve]

I have digitized into mpeg2 files.
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I am trying to burn dvd's with them using iDVD.

forget iDVD with multiplexed files
iDVD handles QuickTime movies, not mpeg movies (iDVD re-encodes, and your files should be already ready for DVD-VIDEO)

When I tried converting them to DV files, they were too large to fit on a DVD

DV files are temporary files for iDVD (and it encodes them to mpeg to produce your DVD-VIDEO)
You don't mind about size, iDVD can handle 2 hours per DVD-R (if your DV files are less than 2 hours -something like 26 GB- it will fit on a single DVD-R)

I am open to converting to either DV or MPEG files so long as they play on stand alone DVD players.

Think differently:
you should already have compliant files (mpeg2 videos), you already converted them. Why do you want extra processes to make a DVD-VIDEO? take a look to sharewares (or commercials) softs. They will allow you to directly use your files (without re-ncoding).
You will not have the "iDVD's beautifull menus", but you will have a better quality (no useless additional conversion) and it's will be faster to process and easier.

bye

[rumplestiltskin]

Toast will author your MPEG2 files without re-encoding them.

[cfrei]

Thanks all - I've got it sorted out!