Turn a whole bunch of AVI, MOV, WMV, etc into a DVD Video

[robinmthomas]

Note--I think I posted this in the correct forum, and I think this is the right one.

I have a ton of videos on my computer. Music videos to commercials, and of course, all of the BMW Films movies.

and the latest Matrix trailer - 100MBs

I wanted to put them all onto a DVD so I can watch them on my home TV. I know that the quality won't be great for all of them, but for some it will be better than VHS.

Anyway, here's what I know:
1 - I need to convert them to MPEG2
2 - I need to author a DVD with these MPEG2 files


Here's what I don't know:
1 - What tool can convert from different file formats?
Ideally, I put all these videos in one folder and tell a conversion to tool to convert the entire folder

2 - I need a simple (free or inexpensive) that will allow me to take MPEGs and turn them into DVD video. I don't care if the menus or boring or if there aren't any amazing features.

In fact, the menu can be plain text or the movie can be one long movie with a ton of chapters.

So....thoughts....

[disturbed1]

How to convert is in the guides section

https://www.videohelp.com/convert

How to author is also in the guides section

https://www.videohelp.com/author

You may want to try this too

https://www.videohelp.com/guides

[robinmthomas]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I wasn't aware that TMPGEnc was able to convert WMV.
I gave it a try and there was no audio in my converted file. I am going to do some troubleshooting with this further.

However, any tips you have about using TMPGEnc to convert WMV to MPEFG would be very helpful.