Burning captured wedding, on my DVD Recorder...

[AlinaVastag84]

Hello ! I`m new in this... I bougt a DVD-RW (LITE-ON 8X+/-) and a TV Tuner (Wayjet) .I`ve captured a friend`s wedding from a VCR to my computer on video composite cables, with WINDVR program, at Full DVD Quality and it was awsome ! Obtaining a MPEG2 file of 9Gb size from a 3 hour tape,I was very happy because the quality was awsome...I am a NERO fun ,so i tried to burn it on a DVD with my NERO VISION EXPRESS but no rezults. When I`ve compressed the MPEG2 file with VIRTUAL DUB to a 3Gb AVI file (divx codec) I was able to start NERO VISION EXPRESS and burn a DVD with the wedding, setting DVD quality to DVD/2 FORMAT and custom bitrate (to about 3000 kb/sec). The resulting DVD was good but it took me other 6 hours or more to do reencodings (MPEG2 to AVI ,then AVI to DVD/2 from NERO VIS.EX.) What can i do to burn directly my MPEG2 file to DVD ???? I can capture MPEG2 files directly to DVD/2 format (good enough quality), but still i can`t burn them with any program directly on DVD. What can I do ???? Please help me !

[Sam Ontario]

My advice is Get a DVD Recorder or spend a lot of time reading on the left.

[AlinaVastag84]

Yes , that`s it !!!!
But then why post anything on this forum?
Let`s transform it into a big help website, then everybody just read & read from others experience...

[handyguy]

Yes, get a dvd recorder, not a writer. Try circuit city they might have an open box you can try it & return it, get your money back or keep it.

[AlinaVastag84]

I`ve just downloaded "" DVDAuthorgui "" !!!!!!!!
I hope it`s the answer to my problem (in part).
p.s. :I don`t need fancy authoring.
In fact i`d like no authoring at all (I don`t know if possible).
I just need to put my MPEG2 file on a DVD that should work on any DVD Player (standalone).

[disturbed1]

Your captured file was 9gig, Single Layer DVDs only hold 4.38gig, Dual Layer DVDs hold 8.5gig. With a single layer recorder and single layer media, you'd have to split it across 2 DVDs. Which isn't that bad, 1.5hours per disc.

For easy authoring, check out TMPG DVD Author, Ulead DVD Movie Factory, or Sonic's MYDVD, all have a free demo, and are under $100. These are all entry level DVD authoring apps. MYDvd and Ulead will re-encode your MPGs if they aren't DVD Spec, or oversized, TMPG TDA will just give you an error message.

Hope you have fun.

[AlinaVastag84]

Thank you ""disturbed1"" !
I already did capture at DVD/2 quality, looks well,obtaining a 3,2 Gb MPEG2 file from 3 hours(vhs tape). My problem was to put it directly on DVD ,no fancy staff... But it might be a problem with the sound (from TV Tuner the capture is MP2 on the sound part of the MPEG2 file, probably) and I don`t know if it should work on DVD-PLAYERS .So I might be forced to converse sound to somthing else(AC3) with BESWEET, then remix AC3 with the video part of MPEG2. (Maybe DVD-AUTHOR-GUY will help me do it, including burn & staff). Bye !

[yoda313]

Hello,
I have a suggestion, use dvdshrink! Just author the original 9gig file with your author program, then open the vobs with dvdshrink and shrink it down to 4.5gigs. It works exceedingly well. Just click ignore if you get size warnings when you author it.
Kevin
P.S. All of my dvd + and -r discs have worked just fine with my players (even in a car dvd player). As long as there mpg2 with mp2 or ac3 sound at 48000hz any player should recognize the disc. Use a rewritable to test it if your concerned. Note the sign of the rewritable, if its a - or + then use that type.

[AlinaVastag84]

Thank you ""yoda313"" !!!
Yes ,I`m using a RW DVD but my problem is that I don`t have a DVD-PLAYER, so, I must go to a friend every time I finish a test. Do you think I can obtain better results with DVDSHRINK capturing to 700/500 then converting to 300/500 (DVD/2 STANDARD) then capturing directly to that DVD/2 standard with the TV-TUNER card and press the file on DVD ?

[disturbed1]

Thank you ""yoda313"" !!!
Yes ,I`m using a RW DVD but my problem is that I don`t have a DVD-PLAYER, so, I must go to a friend every time I finish a test. Do you think I can obtain better results with DVDSHRINK capturing to 700/500 then converting to 300/500 (DVD/2 STANDARD) then capturing directly to that DVD/2 standard with the TV-TUNER card and press the file on DVD ?

No, your quality will be worse. DVD Shrink is always a quality loss when compressing.

For the best results, capture to AVI, filter, then compress (not transcode) with CCE, TMPG, ProCoder or another encoder.

MP2 audio is fine for PAL DVDs.

Ulead, and Sonic's MY DVD have capture apps included. So they are one click applications. If your computer is fast enough, you can capture and burn to DVD at the same time, no inbetween processing.

[AlinaVastag84]

Thank you ""disturbed1"" ! My problem was to fit exactly 3 hours of capture on a DVD because the 2 hours standard is not enough for a VHS tape of 180 min , and less bitrate in MPEG2 file that fill 3/4 of a DVD means lower quality. I want to use full space on DVD (4,3 Gb). I have SONIC MY DVD (came with the LITE-ON8X+/-) but they don`t alow you to capture directly on DVD at what bitrate you want...