Burn mpg on DVD

[knowmyname_20]

I'm new to everything that has to do with DVDs and video.

I was trying to burn a video tu a dvd to be watched on a regular dvd player but I had problems. The video is about 1hour in duration and when I captured the video from the camcorder it was an .avi file.

I have made DVDs before using Nero 6 Ultra Editioin but this time It did not work. The first error I got was Nero 6 saying that the file was too not recognized by Nero. The second was when I tried Nero Express to burn a video DVD, I got an error saying that the file was to big for the DVD (Video is 16gb and I know the dvd im using is a 4gb DVD)

It asked me for a compatible video format such as AVI or mpg so I tried mpg. The file size went down to 876mb as well as quality. mpg is a lossy compression and I know that the quality will not be so good.

How can I burn this video to a DVD? the only thing I have now is the mpg file but if I comvert it back to avi it will lose a lot of quality and it will go back to 16gb. I have Nero 6 Ultra Edition, Roxio Media Center and I aso have a video comverter from avi to wmv, mpg, vcd, quicktime and DVD.

Roxio started the encoding process when I tried it, when it reached 98% an encoding error was displayed.

I would apreciate any help anyone could give me here.

[t0nee1]

Try with DVDFlick, nice easy proggie for noob....good luck!
http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/AVI_to_DVD_using_DVD_Flick_page1.html

[redwudz]

One hour of DV-AVI video should encode to DVD format and fit on a DVD-5 disc with very good quality. Nero, for one, is not a very good encoder or authoring program. It does fine with just burning. You may have to install a DV codec like the Panasonic DV codec for Nero to recognize the file.

Try DVD Flick as suggested or start reading and learn to use the individual tools if you want the best quality and control. A separate encoder, authoring program and burning program. You can find all those as freeware.

Or for a compromise, try ConvertXToDVD. I use it for quick encodes from DV and it's handy for format conversions from PAL to NTSC, or Xvids off the net to DVD. It should work better than Nero or Roxio for conversions. I would also try ImgBurn for most DVD burning.

If you want to learn about the DVD format and specification, see 'WHAT IS' DVD to the upper left on this page.

And welcome to our forums.

[knowmyname_20]

Thank you very much for your answers. I will try DVDFlick, and I will also visit the pages on this website.

Thank you.