autogk mpeg2 to avi-

[rock soup]

hello, I have a question concerning autogk. I have just begun using it. I am trying to compress and burn some tv shows I captured w/my pvr card to cd-r. The card encodes in mpg and the shows are generally 2.5 gb. I do not want to have to use dvd media as it is too expensive so I decided to try to compress and burn. I have downloaded, installed, and tried autogk. First of all- NICE APP. very intuitive. I was underway in no time at all. I do have one problem though. I have specified that I would like the output to be one disc (700mb) and it just made the output 716mb. ??? I am confused. I have three questions. First, is this even the best way to back up these tv shows? Second, how do I get the output size correct? Third, is nero the best app to burn with? Thanks in advance...

RS

[iNFO-DVD]

remember, a K = 1024

Are you looking at it in explorer and it's saying something like 716000 ? that's KB not MB.......

716000 / 1024 = 699.21 MB

And why is DVD media too expensive.... It's only about 20p a disk from my area.

[rock soup]

i'm kinda cheap ;) Oh, my bad, thanks for pointing out my bad math. What app do you recommend for putting the avi output to disc (dvd or cd-r)?

[iNFO-DVD]

Anything you like. You're only writing a normal file to a CD/DVD so any cd/dvd writing software will do the trick.

[rock soup]

so I burned the avi autogk made w/nero using cd rom iso. I put the disc in my stand alone player and it said disc error. I tried o play the file with my computer and all I get is audio... I am stumped, could someone please help noob? :) thanks

[jggimi]

It's not an ISO image. It's an .avi file. Make a standard data CD w/Nero Express or Nero Smartstart, and your PC can play it from CD-R or CD-RW.

Your standalone DVD player will not be able to play the disc unless it supports playing MPEG-4 .avi files. Some do, but most do not. If you'd like to know what your DVD player is capable of, look it up by make/model at www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.

[rock soup]

thanks for the reply. I used TMPGEnc xpress to encode the video and used nero to burn and it is working now, I just made my first functional vcd and it works on the stand alone... nice! only issue is the 5 hours encoding time, but I guess I can't ask for more than that from the old 833 ghz p3. :D thanks for all the help