AVi and mpeg to DVD

[StevenC]

Hey im new at this so i dont know much so maybe you experienced ppl could help. How would i go about filling a dvd to its max with music videos i have on my PC that are in mpeg and AVI format so they will work on a DVD player so i can choose the music videos aswell so i dont have to go through all of them to hear the last song

[haloblack]

How would i go about filling a dvd to its max with music videos i have on my PC that are in mpeg and AVI format so they will work on a DVD player...

The guides are that way
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You'll need to convert all your files to dvd-compliant mpg, author them, and burn them. Go look at the guides, try what they say, and come back if you have more specific problems.

[StevenC]

There are so many guides. Is there a particular reccomended one

[daamon]

Hi StevenC,

To put "stuff" onto a DVD, you need to get it to a DVD compliant MPEG2 file. That sounds really technical, but if you look at the DVD specs under the "DVDR" link in blue at the top left of the page that'll tell you what the characteristics of a "DVD compliant MPEG2 file" (i.e. video and audio details).

If you've already got MPEG's, they have to fit those criteria (if they don't, I'm not sure how you'd change them as I don't do that kinda stuff). For your AVI's, you need to encode (using a tool like TMPGEnc, there's others) to go from AVI -> MPEG2.

You can use GSpot or AVICodec to find out what format the audio and video are in, in your AVI's. These tools don't work on MPEGs. I'm not sure how you'd do the same for those. You can use tools like VirtualDub if you need to extract the audio and convert it to WAV at 48,000Hz (DVD spec).

Once you've got DVD compliant MPEG2 file(s), the easiest way is to author it (make menus and chapters) using a tool like TMPGEnc DVD Author (again, there's others).

That's a simplistic, high level view - but should be enough to get you started and an idea on what sort of stuff to read.

Good luck...

[StevenC]

Ok thanks alot