dvd encoding

[point_vector]

I wanted to burn a dvd of videos that I have. Those videos were mostly avi and I encoded them with tmpgenc. I was going to burn the dvd with the tmpgenc dvd author, but it said something about file headers and to use the wizard with tmpgenc, so I went to reencode with the tmpgenc wizard and now it won't open any of the files I want to burn. Any suggestions? I don't understand why it won't open the files that it encoded.

[echooff]

Are you saying you can no longer open the avi?

[point_vector]

It's not an avi. It's an mpeg2 file that I encoded with tmpgenc, but now it won't open the file. I can open the file with a media player, but not tmpgenc

[Trahald]

unless tmpgenc has changed (havent used it in a while) it will not open mpeg2 files directly. it can open a d2v file made by dvd2avi(which is created from a mpeg2 file) or an .avs file also that points to the .d2v/mpeg2 file.

why not? well.. its an mpeg2 encoder.. nothing is written that says if you can encode mpeg2 then you must be able to decode them. im sure it would cost them more to have to licence to encode AND decode.

[echooff]

Everytime a file is encoded it degrades a little (sometimes a lot.)s It is always preferable to go back to the original files. Re-encoding a file you have already encoded will just give you further degradation of the video. IMO you should load the original avi with the dvd template for you area, i.e. pal, ntsc.

[X5-452]

unless tmpgenc has changed (havent used it in a while) it will not open mpeg2 files directly.

Since TMPGEnc Plus Version 2.520 Tmpgenc has it's own mpeg2 decoder. For me it works oke. Just did a reencode from a mpeg2 file to mpeg 1 without problems.