Hi, Had some success — and some failure — in burning my first DVD+R DL (Memorex 2.4x) with Nero on a Pioneer DVR-710. Note: all byte totals that follow are in decimal (10^n) not binary (2^n) units. My original source is a "dvd legal" 8.4418 GB MPG2 file, that SHOULD, theoretically, fit on a DVD-9, especially when authored with no menus and just a single, continuous playing title. However, when I imported that file into Nero 7 Ultra Edition — specifically, Nero Vision 4.7.0.9 — it reported the size as 8.5792 GB, and stated a max allowed of 8.5362 GB. (Here I've converted what Nero reported from 2^n sizes to 10^n sizes for consistency.) As a result, it decided it needed to transcode (i.e., shrink) the file. Watching its progress, it appears to have only done transcoding around the chapter points I specified (of which there are 20). And, most unfortuantely, it appears to have screwed up the field order of the (interlaced) video it was transcoding, but only for a few seconds or less — which might be all that it actually tried to transcode — and what seems conspicuously like a GOP's worth (or two or three). So, two questions here: 1. Why does Nero think an 8.4418 GB video is "too large" to fit on a DVD-9 in the first place? and 2. Why would it transcode only around the chapter points, and screw up the field order in the process? The interesting thing, though, is that the burned disc plays "fine" in both my stand-alone DVD players, execpt for those few brief instants around the chapter points where the fields are mysteriously reversed. The burner is a Pioneer DVR-710, but somehow it seems impossible to me that the DRIVE itself reversed the interlaced field order. BTW, the program material is true "video" (interlaced 60 fields per second), not "film" that had been hard or soft telecined. Any insight into what the heck Nero might be doing here? Thanks, WB
To be honest, you're using the wrong program to burn to DLs with. You want to use IMGBurn to burn with. You want an ISO of your DVD (which IMGBurn can make), and then burn it with IMGBurn.
Thanks Ripper. But I think this is more of an authoring problem than a burning problem per se. Is there a decent freeware app that will take a compliant MPG2 file and author it correctly for dual layer media? I don't need nor want any fancy menus; a single auto-play title is sufficient. dvdauthor doesn't appear to be inserting the appropriate layer-break stuff, though it works fine for single layer authoring. I agree that ImgBurn is an excellent piece of SW. Cheers, WB
Have you tried Nero Reocode, to make your AVI dvd compliant. I think Recode can handle DL size files... I'll get back to you.
Just to be clear, this isn't a transcoding problem (I've already got DVD compliant MPG2 PS), nor a burning problem, but an authoring problem. Thanks, WB
Oh I see, I thought I may have been mistaken there... So let me just get it straight. You have transcoded to vobs from your avi. And now you're trying to burn them to a DL?
I'm about to burn a DVD for the first time, I have AVI and MPG movies to burn, and I was going to use Nero Vision 4, which is part of Nero 7. Are you saying that IMGBurn is better - and also are you saying that I should choose the particular format called ISO? Thanks.
Well for Dual Layers it is best to use a program called IMGburn burn the ISO of your dvd files and then burn it. However, you have an AVI file, which needs to made into Dvd compliant files. See this guide on how to do it... http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/avi_to_dvd_avi2dvd.cfm Then when you have your ISO file from converting it, you burn it in IMGBurn. Burn at 2.4x speed. Hope that helps... Get back to me EDIT: in that guide, ignore the second part, burn with DVDdecrypter. You are going to burn with IMGBurn.
Well, kinda. I've used avidemux2 to get to "DVD compliant MPEG", which is an MPEG-PS wrapper containing MPG2 video (720x480x29.97fps) and AC3 audio (448kbps). In the past, I've successfully used dvdauthor to convert this MPEG-PS file to a DVD filesystem (i.e., video_ts and its contents), but only for single-layer DVD targets. However, best as I can tell, dvdauthor doesn't comprehend dual layer, and doesn't know anything about layer breaks, etc. So, I need something that will author the DVD correctly — i.e., create the video_ts folder plus contents, or, equivalently, a dual layer-legal ISO — that I can then burn with ImgBurn or the like. Sorry if I'm still not explaining this well and thanks for the help. WB
Well I'd say you use AVI2DVD to make your vobs from the AVI or whatever. Then burn your image file with IMGBurn...
