Aight wad up ya'll. I have DVD SHRINK, NERO STARTSMART, DVD DECYRPTER, SMART RIPPER and CLONE DVD. I have mainly MPG videos that I want to put onto a DVD but I cant figure out how. I tryed to put them on a VCD but after the VCD gets burned it just shows the menu that i made, like if it is a picture and does'nt play crap. But I can put into my COMPUTER and explore and play the DAT file. But I know u can put just videos on a DVD. How do u do it and what am i doing wrong? If there is a good post already give me the link. THANX
First, if you got DAT files [like AVSEQ01.DAT] you have 'riff files with haders', not true MPEGs. Open VCDGear and do, in VCDGEar screen, dat --> mpeg. It will make that conversion for you in a couple of minutes. Now let's suppose you have 5 movies, Movie1.MPG...Movie5.MPG. I'm also supposing the type of your mpegs are compliant with your TV system. If not, all movies must be encoded into MPEGs compliant with your system [PAL <--> NTSC]. My suggestion (also time-saving) is to author a DVD containing multple VCD movies compliant with your system. If you read http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/multiple_svcd_on_dvdr.cfm , you see that you can put multipe (S)VCD movies on a DVD (well, the guide speaks about SVCD, but the discourse is the same. If your VCDs were not compliant with your system, all VCDs must be encoded into complaint VCDs [PAL <--> NTSC]). Now you must put those movies into a DVD without re-encoding them to DVD videos (at the modt into VCD videos compliant with your system), since garbage in = garbage out and you encoding VCD --> DVD would obtain 5 DVD movies of very low quality. If you must encode the videos because they are noy system-compliant, encoding their videos into VCD [M1V] videos needs less time than encoding into DVD videos [M2V]. Since you already have the mpegs, we can jump directly to http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/multiple_svcd_on_dvdr_page_4.cfm . With MPEG-VCR you have to save the 5 files movies#.mpg [(SVCD) compliant] into 5 files movies_48kHz.mpg DVD compliant which have 48 kHz audio. After, you merge them with TMPGenc and you author + burn them into a DVD with DVD Lab. This is the best method I know. If you don't want to use (or can't have) DVD Lab, you'll have to convert all files into DVD movies (much time needed, no gain, and lot of room wasted) and make 5 DVDs. Reading http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ you can find how making DVDs (treatng mpegs like AVIs, skip the codec part).
