This newb needs help!

[earthbound]

Hello
I recently bought a dvd burner and am currently trying to put my home videos onto dvd-r. I captured using a Radeon TV Wonder and the resulting mpeg-2 file looks great. I thought I could just burn this straight onto a dvd-r but I used NeroVision Express to author and burn it and when I play it back on my set top it looks like crap! Complete compression artifacts! My question is can I just take the uncompressed video of the mpeg-2 and burn it straight to dvd-r and what program if any will allow me to do that. Any help is very appreciated!!! Thank you!

Scott

[Don2050]

DVDLab lets you import mpeg2 files and author them... it is a robust authoring solution and lets you get very creative with what you can do...

Just make sure you mpeg2 files are dvd compliant... ie 720x480, bitrate from 2000-9000 mbps, 48khz audio,etc....

[housepig]

My question is can I just take the uncompressed video of the mpeg-2 and burn it straight to dvd-r and what program if any will allow me to do that.

to answer your question, yes you can, you can do it with Nero. But there are very few players that will recognize a raw mpeg-2 file.

The problem is probably that NeroVision is reencoding your file. I would agree with Don2050, DVD Lab is a great program, it packs a lot of bang for the buck, and it won't reencode your files. (If they aren't truly dvd compliant, they will fail when you author, though).

even if you don't go DVD Lab, you should find another authoring application that won't reencode your files, or see if there's a way to turn off the encoding in NeroVision.

[earthbound]

I will give DVD Lab a try! Thanks a bunch for the help!

Scott