Point me in the right direction.

[dense metal]

Hello all, This is my first post and I have to say that there is some serious info at this site...very impressive. I have read and understand that you don't want post like...How do I burn a dvd??? But what I am looking for is someone to tell me what exactly what topic I would be looking for in the help guides....What I am trying to do is to take a 2.5 hr F1 race mpeg2 capture and burn it to a DVD...what would you call this guide or tool I need to better understand this and fit it on a 2 hr dvd. Thanks and look forward to entering the grand world of video processing....

[indolikaa]

That depends on how you captured the MPEG-2 file.


What device did you use to capture the race with?

[offline]

MMC is the default capturing software your card usues. Check out LordSmurf's guide to capturing with an ATI AIW video
card.

Here is the link:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/

[sacajaweeda]

What I am trying to do is to take a 2.5 hr F1 race mpeg2 capture and burn it to a DVD...what would you call this guide or tool I need to better understand this and fit it on a 2 hr dvd.

Are we to assume that this is something you have already captured and discovered it won't fit on a DVDr? You have a couple options here. If possible, re-capture using the proper bitrate. Maybe you TIVO'd the thing and can re-capture it or download it. I'm going to guess you don't have access to the original source to do this again the right way, so that leaves you with the other options. Either re-encode it (degrading quality) with a lower bitrate, or go ahead and author it to a title set and use something like DVD Shrink to fit it onto a DVDr.

MY $.02

[dense metal]

Well no...its not off of TIVO its just a capture from my AIW 9800 and I knew its length was more than 2 hrs.....When I reduce(mpeg2 to mpeg4) the file size down from 7G to 2.5 G SonicDVD will still not burn it...I think because its still shows over the 2 hr limit. This is almost now a mute point because it seems my MMC software crashes and is not recording any of my programs anyway.

[sacajaweeda]

When I reduce(mpeg2 to mpeg4) the file size down from 7G to 2.5 G SonicDVD will still not burn it...I think because its still shows over the 2 hr limit.

Sonic is rejecting it because MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid, etc) is not DVD-legal.

Go ahead and author it (the 7GB file) to a DVD title set and then use DVD Shrink or some other program to crunch it onto a DVDr. Maybe that will look good enough for you.