OK, I'm trying to make a 5 dvd set of American Idol Season 4, the one that was just on TV, and these are widescreen hdtv rips. I'd like to split the 41 episode series onto 5 dvd-r's, 8 episodes per disk. So far I've tried TMPGENC DVD Source creator and TMPGENC 3.0 Xpress. Both of these programs seem to take forever and end up giving me error messages, negating hours of work encoding. I've tried DVDSanta, but it always outputs files too large to fit on the DVD, and the video quality isn't the best. I've run TMPGENC DVD Author to create a menu using the DVDSanta files, even though they'er too large for the dvd, and the program always compresses the files by 100mb per vob. No idea why and the resulting video quality is bad. Also tried avi2dvd and the program seems to hate me, giving me error messages also. I've also tried DVD Decrypter for making the menu's, even tried using a guide here at afterdawn, but the program is too complicated for me. I've no idea how to use it properly to make a menu, so that's out too. So I guess my question is...is there another easy to use program out there that will convert these files to dvd, that has decent quality for video conversion (I seem to be getting a lot of pixelization when playing the test dvd's on the tv), and that will also make a menu as well? I seem to be at my wits end here since none of the programs are working very well.
hi divxtodvd makes small files sizes and is a free app, then i would use tmpgenc dvd author for menu!
The problem with using tmpgenc dvd author is it always reduces the vob size on me. I'm leary of using it because it keeps doing that. What I'm looking for basically is one program that will do all the files in one batch for one dvd-r, and let me create a menu as well. DVDSanta lets me load all 8 files at one time, and then converts them, but it keeps giving me files too big and of lower than expected quality.
hi nero vision express is the tool but it get alot of error! not sure on tmpgenc thats why i said use divxtodvd as i thought it may be the file info making it go wrong to start with? is it loaded to default settings you havent changed anything? it may be thet the file is HDTV and has info inbedded in, not sure tmpgenc and alot of other apps can cope with this new concept!!!
