Help Converting My Mpegs to Vob

[charliefunkuk]

Ok here is my problem.

I have an mpeg that I created using Adobe Premier. It is a video file that is 1hour 43 mins in length and the mpeg is about 3.1gb in size. I have purchased ImToo! Mpeg To DVD Encoder software to convert the mpeg to vob files ready to burn onto the DVD.

My problem is that the resulting vob files from this original mpeg are over 8gb in total, thus they will not fit onto my dvd+r disc

Can someone give me some pointers on how I overcome this. All I want to do is get my 1hour 43mins of film onto the DVD so I can play it on any standard home DVD player.

Many thanks for your help.

Neil

[Baldrick]

try add the mpg in tmpgenc dvd author(free trial available). author and burn. tda will not convert the video so it can't be bigger...this will only work if the mpeg is dvd compliant, if you get an error in tda tell us what it says.

imtoo=crap.

[bits]

Is the mpeg file you recorded mpeg2 compliant? Please provide video details such as resolution and bit rate of the recorded mpeg. ImToo is re-encoding your mpeg and in the process is increasing the bitrate which in turn makes the file much larger. You do NOT want to re-encode mpeg during the authoring process.

So..... first confirm that the recorded file is mpeg2 and is DVD compliant ... if it is ... then see if ImToo has an option to not re-encode when doing the authoring step (vob_ts folder creation) ....also confirm what ImToo is using for bitrate and resolution when it creates the vob.

[SingSing]

Option 1. use 2 layer DVD, that hold 8.5GB.

Option 2. Use DVDshrink to size it down to 4.3GB.

Option 3. Chapter it into two DVDs.

[bits]

Option 1. use 2 layer DVD, that hold 8.5GB.

Option 2. Use DVDshrink to size it down to 4.3GB.

Option 3. Chapter it into two DVDs.

Before trying any of the above options you need to FIRST find out why the file grows from 3 to 8GB. The most likely cause is re-encoding and if that is the case, it will screw up the video quality!

BTW DVD Shrink has it limits and shrinking from 8GB to 4.2 or so is way beyond where you want to go.

[charliefunkuk]

ok you may have hit on something here. I did not realise there were dfferent types of mpegs, so it could well of been exported out of Adobe Premier incorrectly. If I select the Adobe mpeg encoder from within Premier and select mpeg stream as DVD the result i get is files ending with an .m2v extension, not mpeg. I have no idea what these are. The other options I can select are VCD SVCD or Avanced where I define how i wish to export it. All these end up with an mpeg file extension.

So which and how should I do in the first place?

Many thanks


Neil

[redwudz]

.m2v is just the video component. The audio would be .mpa or .mp2. Those are called the elemental streams. Those are combined or muxed to get a MPG-2 with audio. The authoring program can do that. Some authoring programs may not accept elemental streams.

I would take Baldrick's advice and try TDA. It will take elemental streams.

Or you could drop those files into the latest version of Gspot and compare the info there to 'What is' DVD to the upper left to see if they are DVD compliant. <<<<<<

[charliefunkuk]

ok you may have hit on something here. I did not realise there were dfferent types of mpegs, so it could well of been exported out of Adobe Premier incorrectly. If I select the Adobe mpeg encoder from within Premier and select mpeg stream as DVD the result i get is files ending with an .m2v extension, not mpeg. I have no idea what these are. The other options I can select are VCD SVCD or Avanced where I define how i wish to export it. All these end up with an mpeg file extension.

So which and how should I do in the first place?

Many thanks


Neil

[charliefunkuk]

Thanks very much for your help guys, I managed to create my DVD! I exported an m2v file and the audio that went with it from Adobe Premier then used that TMPGenc to create the vobs and burn the disc! Worked a treat!

Many thanks

Neil