Viewing Nero Recode Movies

[damagician]

Hi All,

First post in the forums here :)

I've recently ripped some dvd's to my hard drive using NeroRecode and I now tried burning them to CD (as they are only 695 mb) to watch on my DVD player.

When I try to watch on the dvd player I get an error saying format not supported.

Is there a way I can transcode from Nero Recode to say Divx or something in order to be able to watch these on DVD?? My DVD does play Mpeg4 and also Divx but is having some problems with Nero.

[Daodan]

Welcome (lots of new people here today).
First of all, Nero recode outputs only mp4 files that DVD players don't support yet (seems there will be soon some players like that but they are not on the market yet).
Second, what profile did you use to encode them (asp or avc). If it's avc than the codec itself is incompatible (not only the container). If it's asp (equivalent to xvid) than you should demux the video and audio (look for Yamb) and mux them again in avi (with avimux for example). Of course, in case you also compressed the audio (which you probably did (to AAC)) than you'll have to reencode that sound (for example to mp3 using nero wave editor) but only if it's 2.0 not 5.1. If it's 5.1 you better drop the whole thing.
If you have avc than surely it's better to encode again, but not using the already encoded file but the original.
To make sure for the future you have compatible files with DVD player, the best easy tool is AutoGordianKnot with xvid as a codec (or divx 5 if you prefer).

[setarip_old]

@damagician

Hi!I've recently ripped some dvd's to my hard drive using NeroRecode and I now tried burning them to CD (as they are only 695 mb) to watch on my DVD player.What are the Tiltes and Regions of these "DVDs" of less than 700Mb each? I ask because virtually all commercial DVDs have content totalling more than 3Gb.

When I try to watch on the dvd player I get an error saying format not supported.With a very limited exception, standalone DVD players are not capable of playing CDs burned in DVD format...

[setarip_old]

@Daodan

Hi!Nero recode outputs only mp4 filesThis is incorrect. NERO Recode is also capable of copying and, if necessary compressing, unprotected DVDs - and producing compliant DVDs as a result...

[weaver4]

The Avayon 1000 will play Nero Digital mp4 files (asp) format.

www.avayon.com

[Daodan]

@Daodan

Hi!This is incorrect. NERO Recode is also capable of copying and, if necessary compressing, unprotected DVDs - and producing compliant DVDs as a result...
From what I know unless you recompress to mpeg2 the only output is mp4. I'll check it though. And who recompresses with mpeg2 to 1 CD?

[setarip_old]

@daodan

It's fairly common knowledge that NERO Recode is very similar to DVD Shrink in its ability to compress a DVD9 to DVD5 (and was supposedly originally created by the author of DVD Shrink) - the primary difference being that Recode will NOT directly accept a copy protected DVD as input.

The following is from the NERO website:

"Nero Recode 2 featuring Nero Digital™, the world’s fastest MPEG-4 encoder enables the user to recode non-copy protected movies (DVD-9 to DVD-5) to a CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R or a single DVD+R DL disc in DVD-Video format (DVD-9 to DVD-9)."

[damagician]

Welcome (lots of new people here today).
First of all, Nero recode outputs only mp4 files that DVD players don't support yet (seems there will be soon some players like that but they are not on the market yet).
Second, what profile did you use to encode them (asp or avc). If it's avc than the codec itself is incompatible (not only the container). If it's asp (equivalent to xvid) than you should demux the video and audio (look for Yamb) and mux them again in avi (with avimux for example). Of course, in case you also compressed the audio (which you probably did (to AAC)) than you'll have to reencode that sound (for example to mp3 using nero wave editor) but only if it's 2.0 not 5.1. If it's 5.1 you better drop the whole thing.
If you have avc than surely it's better to encode again, but not using the already encoded file but the original.
To make sure for the future you have compatible files with DVD player, the best easy tool is AutoGordianKnot with xvid as a codec (or divx 5 if you prefer).


Thanks to everyone for your answers :)

After reading the above I've decided that it's not so important for me to watch the movies through the tv. My laptop will play them just fine :)

Someone asked about the dvd's being only 700meg. I used nero recode to recode them to that size so that I would be able to burn them to cd for later viewing. They weren't originally that size.

I think i'll need to spend a lot more time reading through the guides here before I go ripping anymore movies to ensure that I get the end product I require.

[setarip_old]

Someone asked about the dvd's being only 700meg. I used nero recode to recode them to that size so that I would be able to burn them to cd for later viewing. They weren't originally that size. And what you've done is not simply recoding, it is compressing and converting to a different format. What you've made of them by doing this is no longer a DVD or DVD format files...

[bond]

there are dvd players that also handle MP4 (check the mp4 faq i link to in my sig)

if your player supports only avi files you need to remux the video stream from mp4 to avi (eg with yamb)
the audio stream needs to be reencoded to mp3