Best way to get raw MPEG2 files to DVD?

[CursedLemon]

So I'd like to get some raw interlaced MPEG2 video to DVD without having to re-encoding them, can someone suggest a way that I can convert them to VOB or whatever is necessary? I assume I'll have to do some demuxing, or what have you.

[Ai Haibara]

Can you provide us with a little more information about the video? For example, if your source video is HD video, you'll have to re-encode regardless.

[CursedLemon]

All my videos are already DVD compliant. Though they vary between 16:9 and 4:3, I'll be burning them separately. I'm just trying to avoid further encoding by burning software.

[manono]

Do you know how to demux? If so, demux, open the video and audio in Muxman, give it a destination and hit 'Start'. If everything's compliant and OK, out the other end comes a DVD. If it's not compliant in some way, either it doesn't accept the audio/video to begin with, or it aborts before finishing. Either way, nothing gets reencoded.

[CursedLemon]

Okay, so I'm trying to use Muxman to author a dual-layer DVD (after using Simple DVD Creator to demux), but it's giving me an "excessive bitrate" error.

My video is 9800 kbps and my audio is 200 kbps, with a total file size of 7.31 GB.

Are these incorrect?

[aedipuss]

your 9800 number is probably an average. 9800 is the absolute max and yours must go over it at some point to get denied. some other programs like dvdlab pro might accept it with a warning, but then a dvd player might not play it.

[CursedLemon]

The videos are 9800 CBR.

[manono]

The videos are 9800 CBR.

You can get a more detailed message in the Muxman log in the root of the C drive. However, it's not such a good idea to use CBR at 9800 because few encoders will actually abide by that limitation. It doesn't have to go over very much to prevent making the DVD. There's also the muxing overhead to consider. It's not DVD compliant.

What audio is 200kbps? 192 maybe?

Which encoder did you use?

[CursedLemon]

I believe Sony Vegas' "DVD Architect" Main Concept encoder was used, which has options of 192k, 4200k, and 9800k as CBR options. The videos were rendered from DV source.

[manono]

If you don't care about it being entirely DVD compliant (as aedipuss mentioned, it might stutter when watching it in a DVD player), IFOEdit is more 'forgving'. If you want to try authoring with it, up at the top go DVD Author->Author New DVD.

[_Al_]

I believe Sony Vegas' "DVD Architect" Main Concept encoder was used, which has options of 192k, 4200k, and 9800k as CBR options. The videos were rendered from DV source.

Those options are mere suggestions in Vegas, you can manually change them to 8,000,000 for example (8Mbit), choosing MainConcept mpeg2, DVD Architect video stream to get m2v video stream. This will produce DVD compliant video stream, it is not meant to be for DVD Architect only.

Export Dolby Digital AC3 Studio to get audio 192kbps. To get more AC3 audio stream options (more bitrate etc.) there is DVD Architect needed to be installed and another AC3 Pro export plugin will appear in export window.