plz help, unable to burn mpg2 using tmpgenc dvd author.

[pwangdel]

Greetings:

After taking a 2H video clip of a funeral on a Sony DI8. I use Media Studio pro 7 to capture & render to a 86 minute AVI file (18GB) without any special effects (just have an indroduction in text format) and compress it to mpeg2 (~1.5GB) file. I follow the "How to author a DVD using TMPEGEnc DVD Author" guide https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=455#455 and many time I want to burn the mpeg2 file to a DVD+R using Tmpgenc DVD Author 1.6. Everything went smootly (just follow the instruction and use default settings) until I hit the "Begin Output"; the program creates empty folders "Volume1" with 2 sub-directories Audio_TS & Video_TS and exits itself automatically. Am I missing something? Any suggestion and help is greatly appreciated.

My rig:
- Abit IS-7 Mobo
- P4 2.8E GHz 800FSB
- 1X PMI3200 512MB Dual channel turbo PC 3200 DDR400
- 2X WD1200JBRTL 120GB 8MB buffer ATA 100 with multiple NTFS partition (4GB OS w/ 1.2GB free, 6.5GB program 1.32GB free, 1.2GB swap 480MB free, 28GB video1 20GB free , 28GB video2 15GB free, 110GB free videotmp partition).
- 16X Nec ND3500A Dual layer DVD-/+RW
- 128MB Nvidia Quadro 750XGL
- Antec 430W TruePower power supply
- XP Prof. sp1
- All video partition is defragmented.

[daamon]

Hi pwangdel,

It sounds as if you'er doing everything OK. It also sounds like it's an issue with TDA itself.

I've seen similar problems here before and a re-install usually does the trick.

Good luck...

[pwangdel]

Thanks for your comments and help.

I will uninstall 1.6 and try to install 1.5 to see if I still have the same problem. Effectively, I try 1.6 on 2 different machines and have the same result.

The process of making home DVD is taking more time than I anticipate. I thought it was an easy task and could be done in one day . So far I have installed a couple softwares, spend one day for rendering / editing, one day (20 some hours) for encoding to mpeg2, two days try to burn this thing and so far still no luck . I am wondering if there is all in one package that would do this for you.

[hech54]

I am wondering if there is all in one package that would do this for you.

Yep....a DVD Recorder...

Your way will work....especially if you do not intend to do it very often. Having a DVD Recorder is just an added bonus if you plan on creating alot of DVD's in the future. Having BOTH a DVD Recorder and a computer burner...."priceless"...

[Baldrick]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=35#35

[pwangdel]

Thanks, I will get the recorder once I have som cash.