TV Capture File to DVD.

[ukcat]

I have captured a basketball game from Win TV and it was saved to my Hard Drive in MPEG format. Is MPEG the best format to use for DVD or do I need to convert to something different. If so what type file should I convert it too and which program should I use?

Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

If the MPEG file is DVD-compliant, you are almost done. If not, first encode it to a DVD MPEG format, with TMPGEnc or another encoder. Once encoded, you can load it into Nero to be authored and burned.

[kadi500]

Are you sure that you captured in MPEG-2 format, not in MPEG-1 format? Only MPEG-2 is DVD compliant format...

[ukcat]

I not sure if it MPEG 1 or 2. The file extension just says .mpeg

[Tommyknocker]

Whoa! Please do not tell him that!
Here are the valid formats for DVD:

PAL
Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbit/sec MPEG2 or up to 1.856 MBit/sec MPEG1 video
720 x 576 pixels MPEG2
704 x 576 pixels MPEG2
352 x 576 pixels MPEG2 (Same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 288 pixels MPEG2
352 x 288 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
25 fps (frames/second)

NTSC (NTSC Film)
Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbit/sec MPEG2 or up to 1.856 MBit/sec MPEG1 video
720 x 480 pixels MPEG2
704 x 480 pixels MPEG2
352 x 480 pixels MPEG2 (Same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 240 pixels MPEG2
352 x 240 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
29,97 fps (frames/second)
23,976 fps with 3:2 pulldown = 29,97 playback fps (NTSC Film, this is only supported by MPEG2 video