Simple way of making DVD's of 400+MB MPEG's?

[Dunnyman]

I'm sure this has been covered before, but with new versions of ffmpgX and FortyTwo, as well as Capty, Toast 6, Sizzle and iDVD, I'm getting confused!!!!
All I want to do, is make some DVD's consisting of TV eps averaging around 425 megs each that were converted from Replay or EyeTV.
iDVD says I need Quicktime .MOV files, well I convert them using Quicktime to .MOV, and it says unsupported MPEG file? Huh? How do I get a TRUE .MOV file?
Toast gets rolling along fine, but comes up with "problems with source file" errors halfway thru, any pointers on fixing that one?
Sizzle does much the same, but decides to crash the whole system instead.
ffmpgX used to convert at blinding speed, but now trudges along, with it being the only program running?
FortyTwo just spins along for up to an hour before I get frustrated and kill it, I've yet to do anything with it.
For the record, G4 350, Gig of RAM, 10.2.6, latest Quicktime, etc and backing up DVD's is a breezer using DVDBackup and DTOX, but somehow, what should be a simple task is driving me nuts!!!!!
If any of the bright people in here can post a tutorial that doesn't require a degree in Computer Science to comprehend, I will be eternally grateful!!!

[ZeroSix]

you've taken a look at Galactica's guide?

[Dunnyman]

Too, too complex, in DVD Backup and DTOX, we've got drag and drop simplicity, I'm looking for something similar for my purposes. My point is that iDVD, Toast and Sizzle all (supposedly) will do the re-encoding, but none seem to do so succesfully, leading me to beleive that some re-encoding must be needed beforehand, despite what these programs claim. IS there a solution that DOESN'T require 137 hours of re-encoding that will bring my Mac to a crawl for me to make a few DVD's? What about DVD Studio Pro? Is that a little more industrial strength than iDVD?

[TonicAngel]

Well if your dvd player will play them (mine does, my parents doesn't) You can just drop the mpgs into toast 6 and burn it as a data cd. Which is basically just a bunch of mpgs on a disc. Some players will play them, some won't. I put all my tv eps onto one dvd that way.

[galactica]

do the ifogen/tocgen for the .mpeg and you will get directly a video_ts folder
just skip ahead to the part where its talking about mpeg demuxing to convert audio to dvd standard. If you alreay have it muxed at dvd standard, just skip to the ifogen stuff.

Its really easy once you do it the 1st time, i promise. I can even do it with my eyes closed now....

if it errors on this method, then something is wrong with the mpeg files.

[pixeljammedia]

In FFMpegX you can create a Video_TS folder by gathering all your mpegs into one folder. Selecting the folder under the Tools>Video Tools>Select File/s to process and pressing s/vcd>dvd. Then burn it uder the Data tab in Toast along with a blank Audio_TS folder.

[galactica]

either way, if you keep getting errors on whatever method you pick, there could be some problem with the individual mpeg files

[OmegaSupreme]

DSP 2 can handle mpeg1 & mpeg2 files directly unlike iDVD.