Mpeg2 to DVD-R

[Dazz285]

I was wondering if anyone can help me with this little problem I've got??
I have a 3.1 gig mpeg2 file and I want to burn it to a DVD-R so I can watch it on my dvd player. Can anyone suggest a program to use or a tutorial I can read up on. I'm using a trial of Ulead DVD Workshop but the problem I have there is that the film is, say, 2 hours and 50 mins long. But after it's created an iso and a few other files and folders it seems to lose 20 or 30 mins of the film. Am I doing something wrong? or is there a better way of doing it.

Thanks.
Dazz285

[sue denim]

Hi!

Quick question .... are you sure that it's losing the last 20-30 mins of the film?

I could be wrong here as I've no experience with this authoring software, but it seems that it's transcoding your original MPEG2 file (because it doesn't meet DVD specs) upto a higher samplerate/resolution.
This, of course, creates a movie which is too long for a single disk.

Make sure that your original MPEG2 file meets DVD specs (available on this site). If not, use CCE or TMPGenc to re-encode to the correct resolution etc and then put that file back into your authoring software.

If it still insists upon transcoding, download the demo for SpruceUp (again, link on this site - tools) and use that.
There's also a guide for it on here somewhere!

Keep us informed how you get on ........

Sue xxx

[Dazz285]

Hi Sue
I'm not completely sure it is losing time but if I open it up in media player it says 2 hours 50 but if I open up the mpeg that Workshop has created it says 2 hours and 30. Both mpeg's have the finishing titles so I was thinking perhaps when I put the mpegs together using TMPGenc it was missing something out??

Cheers
Dazz