ISO the problem?

[Halka]

I took some videos duck hunting last fall. I plug the little videocam directly into a USB port and they go on my hard drive as .MOV files. I have used various conversion programs to try and burn DVDs from these files that will play in my Emerson player. The player calls for MPEG2 files. I have tried both DVD+R and DVD+RW discs. I have tried converting to .mpg, .avi. .mp4, and downloaded codecs with two different systems. My player does not recognize discs created with these formats, nor do the players of two of my friends. All we get is a message "Playback feature may not be available on this disc"

I don't know how I did it, but one disc plays one of my videos. The files on the disc are .MOV (by far the largest), .ISO and .BUP. I have learned that the last two are container files.

Question: Can I add .ISO files to my .mpg files so they will play after I burn a DVD? Did the ISO file make my DVD player work? Where did these files come from?

Hal. 74 year old North Dakotan

[Baldrick]

Convert the MOV to a standard dvd video with convertxtodvd or the free avstodvd or dvd flick. It should work on most dvd players.

And are you sure that the extension is mov for the disc that works? It sounds more like it could be a standard dvd with a video_ts folder and vob, bup and ifo files.

[Halka]

Yes! It has those longer files with the -ts on them.

[Halka]

I didn't mean files I meant file types.

[Halka]

Still will not play. I converted my .MOV to DVD-MPEG2 PS (DVD VOB) with the VideoConverter 2.3.02 program I downloaded. Conversion works great like the other two I have tried, but the resultant file showed no Video-TS files like the one that plays shows when I look at Properties.

How can I get those IFO files added?

[Baldrick]

You must then author it with dvd authoring tool, see our tools section.


Or use convertxtodvd or avstodvd or dvd flick. They will make a complete dvd and not just vob files.

[Halka]

Thanks! Will try. "Authoring"............another new term for me!

[Halka]

Made a bit of progress:

AVStoDVD failed as only PAL was the choice. Aborted during Title 1 video encoding.

ConvertXtoDVD allowed the NTSC format and I could play the small video. It had the Video-TS IFO, BUD, and VOB files, but it had an advertisement in center

DVD Flick failed. Windows Media Player could not support the .dfproj extension, so I burned it with the parent program, but it would not play and size (118 kb) was far smaller than the .MOV file I used for a test (26 mb).

Any other suggestions?

[davexnet]

Use AVStoDVD properly. Open it up and before adding any files, enter preferences. Select pal/ntsc on the video tab.
Select the box at the bottom "save settings as default" (or words to that effect.).
Close the preferences and add your source files.

[Halka]

Thanks! I'll keep working on it and report results.

[Halka]

Quick question: Can I put videos with different file extensions in as a group with AVStoDVD?

[davexnet]

What do you man "as a group" Do you mean a part of the same title? I don't think you can,
but you can certainly add them as separate titles.

[Halka]

I think I did one correctly, but then just before burning got in a loop of copy/replace and merging audios. It burned five files. Would not play and did not show any IFO or BUP files. Was called a "VIDeo-TS) file.

Tried again and got error readings like ---------aviSynthD and
Cannot find----------------------------------------AVSinfo.txt (timeout 30 seconds)
File is now a "D2V" file
Asked for "Yes" on crreate index and demux audio?

[Halka]

Oh and by the way I could find no tab marked "VIDEO" on the program file.

[ronmaz]

The Video tab is in the Preferences section of AVStoDVD

[Halka]

Found it thanks. Should I start a new "project" before I Open?

Kept saying files not found so I had to click a "share" box before I could see them. OK?

File types in the small group of files I wish to convert are AC3, D2V, Movie Clip, Quick Time Movie, and MP4 Video. Will all these be treated the same with this program? What file type should I see on the end product before I burn to DVD?

[videobruger]

Found it thanks. Should I start a new "project" before I Open?

If you noticed there is a little check-box in the lower left corner in the above picture "Save current Preferences as default". If you check that after changing the video standard to NTSC all new project would be NTSC

File types in the small group of files I wish to convert are AC3, D2V, Movie Clip, Quick Time Movie, and MP4 Video. Will all these be treated the same with this program? What file type should I see on the end product before I burn to DVD?

I'm not all that familiar with AVStoDVD (personally I prefer DVDStyler) but I can tell you that AC3 is an audio-file and would probably be converted whereas D2V is a project file that AVStoDVD hardly knows how to handle.

And a small tip for you. Most authoring programme is able to create an ISO-file as it's output instead of burning a DVD. In ASVtoDVD in looks like:



You may watch this ISO-file in VLC player so you'll know how your DVD will be like before burning. You may then burn the ISO-file to DVD using ImgBurn or the like
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[Halka]

Thanks! The file extensions for my files after trying and saving all these conversions now may be too long. I'll start from scratch with the original .MOV files from my pocket videocam.

[Halka]

Still no go. I started fresh with all my .mov files, set it all up in preferences, and when I started the encoding got:

Process aborted during Title 1 VIDEO encoding operations. Check log file--------------------for more info.

[Halka]

I deleted everything in the log files and will start over.

[Halka]

Same result. Process aborted. What could be wrong now?

[Halka]

I downloaded DVD styler and it would not even show my .mov files even though the folder I tried to open holds 12 of them. I searched .mov and got no help except ads for other conversion programs. Does DVD Styler work with .mov files?

[videobruger]

Does DVD Styler work with .mov files?

Yes.

and it would not even show my .mov files even though the folder I tried to open holds 12 of them

Not sure what you mean by this.

But try to take a look at this - maybe that'll help

[Halka]

finally found one that works. Its called AnyVideoConverter. Simple enough that even I can use it!

Thanks