Authoring Captured Video

[Speediakal]

How can i burn video that i captured to a DVD? it's in mpeg-2 format and i want to put it on DVD to watch on the TV. im guessing that i need to author it before i burn it to dvd, or could i just burn it to dvd?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Many newer (last two years, or so) standalone players can playback MPEG-2 files directly.

If yours is not one of them, one set of procedures (other posters may/probably will suggest alternative methods) would be:

1) If not already DVD-compliant, use "TMPGEnc" (or "TMPGEncPlus") to convert the MPEG to compliant MPEG2-for-DVD format - Use "TMPGEnc's" DVD wizard/template to accomplish this (This step may not be necessary, if your MPEG-2 files are already in DVD compliant format)

2) Use "TMPGEnc DVD Author" v.1.6 (a different program than "TMPGEnc") to easily create the required additional DVD files and structure (and chapters and a menu, if you wish)
You can obtain a FULLY functional free 30 day trial version of this commercial program at:

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tda16.html

**If the combined filesize of the DVD "package" written to your hard drive is greater than 4.37Gb, use DVD Shrink (or similar) to compress


If your O/S is either Win2000 or WinXP, TMPGEnc DVD Author can also burn your DVD. Otherwise, use NERO to burn in "DVD-Video" mode
(As an alternative to "TMPGEnc DVD Author", you could use "DVDLab")


Let us know of your success ;>}

[Speediakal]

i know my player plays divx files. i dont know about mpeg-2.
problem is Nero is telling me that i can't burn files that are bigger then 2GBs which is weird and is saying that it cannot be stored on the ISO file system and that i need to select another compilation property.

[setarip_old]

Select "UDF" instead of "ISO" or "UDF/ISO"...

[VWRacer]

What is your operating system? With Nero saying it can't burn files larger than 2Gb, I'm guessing something other than XP/2000.

Racer