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mpegS onto DVD-R, argh! how?

Discussion in 'DVDR' started by laurie85, Mar 20, 2004.

  1. laurie85

    laurie85 Member

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    I have mpegs (svcd & vcds) that play on my dvd player when I burn them onto CD-R, but when I try and wack the same mpegs onto a DVD-R my DVD player says unknown disk.

    Some1 lent me a DVD-R DVD copied movie and that played fine. Im confused!

    Any help would go down a treat!
     
  2. herbsman

    herbsman Moderator Staff Member

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    Do a search on AVI to VOB & you will undoubtedly find your answer ;)

    It's all to do with encoding whatever file to MPEG2 (which is DVD compliant) & then converting to VOB/BUP/IFO files for burning in a VIDEO_TS folder
     
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    Thx 4 that, I'll start the search now, just one little question.....

    doesnt this conversion take ages, like 5hours+ ?
     
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    hi laurie85
    depending on your system,yes it can take that long, or longer,using TMPGEnc.Mainconcepts encoder is a lot faster but costs alot more.These are the two i use but im sure there are more out there,maybe faster and less costly.

    good luck

    jim
     
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    herbsman Moderator Staff Member

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    MainConcept is worth getting IMHO as it is 3 times as qucik as most other encoders , and thats without any loss of Video quality !! :D
    Plus using this encoding method you do NOT have to re-mux seperate video & audio streams ... which can often result in out of sync audio

    (I use MainConcept & highly recommend it)
     
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    Thx guys, I have a dream that one day you can just burn and play....one day.

    Would it be easier/quicker to cut the mpegs to 700mb and put them on CD-Rs?

    Do you know of any programs that could do this? Thx again.
     
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