Mpeg and Divx onto DVD-R

[teedster3]

Hi i was wondering if there is a program that takes mpeg and divx movies and puts them onto dvd-rs so they will play on most dvd players?? all the help is appreciated

[bugster]

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Read some guides, this is a complex subject and there are many ways of achieving what you want to do. Do some reading and some experimenting. When you come usntuck (and you almost certainly will) come back and ask specific questions, giving as much info about what you have done so far as you can. Then you might get a more useful answer.

[teedster3]

Ive read many guides on this site but i must be having trouble finding one with this topic. Can u give me a helpful guide to start me off with???

[Tilandra]

There are several ways to deal with this... unfortunately, you're not describing what you want as the end result very well.

Mpegs or divx burned onto dvd-r *without* authoring? Only a few models of stand-alone dvd players can handle mpeg types of discs. There are none that I know of that play unauthored Divx, though there are rumors about some companies developing them.

Ahead Nero burning application can burn a very basic DVD with it's MPEG plugin purchased separately. You select DVD video from the wizard menu, drag and drop the mpeg, and it will reencode it if necessary. They provide very simplistic menus though, if memory serves. Not pretty, but with the latest version, they produce discs compatible on any standalone that will play DVD-R, but that can be dependant on the media you burn to as well. Cheap discs sometimes aren't recognized. I've had good results with Ritek media.

You can also find DVD authoring packages. Ulead DVD movie factory, Dazzle DVD complete, etc. Demos for these are available if you want to find one that's easy. I use both these packages, Ulead for AC3 audio projects, and Dazzle for TV episode time-shifting.

Give us some more details of what you're trying to accomplish and we'll try to help. What's the source of your files? Do you want a DVD with menus? Which model of standalone DVD player are you trying to use the disc on?

[rhuala2]

I do it like this:

1. Open .avi in Virtual dub, Under audio slect full processing. Then under File, select save .wav file

2. Open .avi thru TMPGEnc, re-encode at rate that optimses DVD-R and movie lenght. For example 180min = 3000 bitrate. Use calculator.

3. Before starting encoding, open under audio, open .wav file from #1. usually audio file from divx .avi won't encode properly in TMPGEnc, try it you'll see.

4. Then u can author straight .mpeg file if like with many author programs or I like to...

4. Run thru MPEG tools in TMPGEnc and demux the .mpeg from #3. This will give a .m2v and .mp2 file

5. Author with DVD Maestro.

I like DVD Maestro cause its so versatile and it saves the audio compressed not like some retard programs that save the audio as PCM and take up 3 times the space (really bugs me).

rhuala

[teedster3]

I saw that tmpgenc guide and downloaded the demo. The .avi file i am going to use is widescreen, and at the start of the wizard it lets u choose ntsc 16:9 but it didnt show this on the guide. I want to keep my movie in widescreen when i watch it so please help. Also, i must be lost because i dont know what authoring is? This must be a big topic but can somebody explain the basics of authoring to me??

[rhuala2]

Give me a break, now ur just being way too lazy, that's like asking someone to tell u how physics works. I tried to give u a helping hand and now u want to be spoon fed (give an inch take a mile). Go read some guides and use google for seaches then come back and ask some intelligent specific questions.

rhuala

[teedster3]

Im a little confused at what made u so annoyed on my last post. Im new to this vocabulary. But apparently authoring means putting the video file onto a format ready to burn. Well isnt this what TMPGEnc is used for?? Or am i totally missing the point. Also after i am done using TMPGEnc I would use DVD Maestro to burn this file right??

[bugster]

Although I agree to a certain extent with rhuala2 that you should do more reading and research of your own I will try and give a little help. Taking a divx and putting it on DVD recordable that will play on a standalone player requires 3 main steps. In the order you need to perform them these steps are:

1) Conversion
2) Authoring
3) Burning

Conversion. This is the act of converting one form of digital video to another. Often referred to as transcoding. This is what Tmpgenc will do for you. It takes the divx and converts it to DVD compliant mpeg-format (actually, it will convert to almost any mpeg-format, use the wizard or templates to get DVD-compatible mpegs)

Authoring. In this step we take the compliant mpeg file output by TmpGenc and use an authoring package to convert it to a DVD compliant file and directory structure. In this step we can also add chapter points, menus etc if we wish. Use Spruceup, Maestro, Ulead DVD workshop/moviefactory or one of many other DVD authoring packages for this step.

Burning. This takes our DVD compilant files produced by the authoring stage and transfers them to our recordable media. Some authoring packages have built in burning engines but not all work well with all burners. In that case you need to use a dedicated burning program such as Nero.

Of course there is software available that will combine 2 or even all 3 of these steps into one package, making life easy for the newbie. The drawback being a lack of flexibility and often lower quality results than those obtainable using seperate programs for each step.

If video conversion was easy, places like this would not need to exist. Read, experiment and read again. When you come unstuck (which you will ), come back and ask specific, detailed questions about your problem, then you will get useful answers and won't upset anybody.

Hope this Helps

[rhuala2]

Im a little confused at what made u so annoyed on my last post

Sorry about sounding annoyed, it's just that if you browse around in the Newbie guide to the left, you will get clear and accurate answers to the basics of anything related to audio/video on computers.

rhuala

[teedster3]

Thanx guys, i think this is the foundation of many movies to come for me. I will definitely respond if i have any problems along the way.