Have MPEG2 File, now what?

[Darklord]

I have a very crisp MPEG2 file that I recorded from a DirecTV feed. it's 1.5gb size, video is crisp and clear, audio is spot on.

Captured with a Leadtek GeForce4, DVD quailty (at least that is what the menu says) 720 x 480.

I had planned to burn to SVCD, but I just purchased a Sony DRU500A and was thinking I should just burn to DVD instead.

1. Would my file stay at 1.5gb when copied or would it "grow"?

2. M2 Edit. I am considering purchasing it. Comments?

3. IS there a simple set of guides for this?

thanks.

[Matthew]

Dunno what format the audio is in but you'll need to demux (use tmpgenc). You can then import the m2v into your authoring program (e.g. Maestro) but the audio has to be a 48 khz wav or ac3 so you may need to re-sample/re-encode that.

BTW for best quality it's advisable to capture to lossless avi (huffyuv) then encode afterwards with CCE. avi = huge though.

[Darklord]

I have no idea about the audio.

The leadtek only asks for the source for Audio recording, no other details are given other than it is using the nVidia Audio.

[Matthew]

Well that should be clear after you demux. I suspect it's 44.1 khz wave (cd quality) but I've never done capturing.

[dvd_maniac]

I have an ATI AIW 8500 but everything should be the same... Mathew is probably right about the audio, you need to demux in tempgenc's mpeg tools. then I use ac3machine to convert the audio to ac3, you can also change the bitrate if you want. I use 128kbps as I have a decent surround sound and can hear that fine. I don't know if your program has it but I also capture with inverse 3:2 pulldown, seems to be the same quality but smaller file size, then I cce the m2v file again. I can get a little over 4 Nearly perfect hours onto dvd-r. Also what authoring program U use?

[Darklord]

Okay, minor update.

Audio comes back saying it is capturing "MPEG-1 Audio layer II" That is the only audio codec listed as an option to capture with.

Did a search on Google for audio codecs, but the results all came back with DiVX codecs. Can I use the AC3 codec from the Nimo DiVX pack?

So I was told to demux my file, which will split audio and video into 2 separate files.

Okay, WHY do I want to have 2 separate files? will this come into play when editing out unwanted material from the files like commercials?