Captured MPEG to DVD?
 

So what do people use?

I have a new DTV PCI card, and can capture movies etc to disk. I also have a
DVD writer. So what is the best way to get the movies onto DVD?

I have downloaded a trial of 'Cucusoft AVI to VCD/DVD MPEG convertor', which
works ok but is so slow. Not even realtime using my 3Gig P4. The you have to
run 'MPEG to DVD Author'.

And what about editing out adverts?

I've also tried MS Movie Maker, but that crashes after a while.

Then there's DVD Santa. Doesn't crash, but just seems to stall in the middle
of a big file.

I'll try all of these on my work's PCs to see if there is an inherrent
problem with my own.

"Grumps" wrote in message
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So what do people use?

I have a new DTV PCI card, and can capture movies etc to disk. I also have
a
DVD writer. So what is the best way to get the movies onto DVD?

I have downloaded a trial of 'Cucusoft AVI to VCD/DVD MPEG convertor',
which
works ok but is so slow. Not even realtime using my 3Gig P4. The you have
to
run 'MPEG to DVD Author'.

Sounds like it's doing some decoding & recoding. That just isn't necessary
with a digital tv card.

There is a guide at www.doom9.org for DVB to DVD-R conversion which are
quite quick and keeps the quality and video just as good as the dvb. Editing
is also in there.

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"Darren Wilkinson" wrote in message
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"Grumps" wrote in message
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So what do people use?

I have a new DTV PCI card, and can capture movies etc to disk. I also
have
a
DVD writer. So what is the best way to get the movies onto DVD?

I have downloaded a trial of 'Cucusoft AVI to VCD/DVD MPEG convertor',
which
works ok but is so slow. Not even realtime using my 3Gig P4. The you
have
to
run 'MPEG to DVD Author'.

Sounds like it's doing some decoding & recoding. That just isn't necessary
with a digital tv card.

There is a guide at www.doom9.org for DVB to DVD-R conversion which are
quite quick and keeps the quality and video just as good as the dvb.
Editing
is also in there.

Thanks.
I've had a quick look at this site. My captured mpeg is in a single file
(video and audio), but the tools that I've tried from doom9 (DVDPatcher and
IfoEdit) seem to expect separate files for each.

Grumps wrote:
"Darren Wilkinson" wrote in message
...

There is a guide at www.doom9.org for DVB to DVD-R conversion which
are quite quick and keeps the quality and video just as good as the
dvb. Editing is also in there.

Thanks.
I've had a quick look at this site. My captured mpeg is in a single
file (video and audio), but the tools that I've tried from doom9
(DVDPatcher and IfoEdit) seem to expect separate files for each.


You need to demux (demultiplex) them into video and audio files using
PVAstrumento or Project9. I use PVAstrumento:

http://www.offeryn.de/dv.htm

BTW, if you've got broadband, download a full demo version of Nero 6:

http://www.ahead.de/en/nero-prog.php

If you can get a Nero OEM CD, which are cheap if you look around, then
if you like Nero you can purchase the downloadable serial number from:

https://secure.nero.com/en/secure.asp

for $40 (~£25).

You can burn DVDs that are playable on normal DVD players or compress
video files to store more on each DVD disc. I do the latter, and all you
need to do is click "make ps" in PVAstrumento (without demuxing) then
compress using the newest video codec, AVC, using a bit rate of about
1.2 Mbps (which compresses the file size to between 1/2 and 1/4 of the
original size) and the quality is virtually indistringuishable from the
original.


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Grumps wrote:
"Darren Wilkinson" wrote in message
...

There is a guide at www.doom9.org for DVB to DVD-R conversion which
are quite quick and keeps the quality and video just as good as the
dvb. Editing is also in there.

Thanks.
I've had a quick look at this site. My captured mpeg is in a single
file (video and audio), but the tools that I've tried from doom9
(DVDPatcher and IfoEdit) seem to expect separate files for each.


You need to demux (demultiplex) them into video and audio files using
PVAstrumento or Project9. I use PVAstrumento:

http://www.offeryn.de/dv.htm

BTW, if you've got broadband, download a full demo version of Nero 6:

http://www.ahead.de/en/nero-prog.php

If you can get a Nero OEM CD, which are cheap if you look around, then
if you like Nero you can purchase the downloadable serial number from:

https://secure.nero.com/en/secure.asp

for $40 (~£25).

You can burn DVDs that are playable on normal DVD players or compress
video files to store more on each DVD disc. I do the latter, and all you
need to do is click "make ps" in PVAstrumento (without demuxing) then
compress using the newest video codec, AVC, using a bit rate of about
1.2 Mbps (which compresses the file size to between 1/2 and 1/4 of the
original size) and the quality is virtually indistringuishable from the
original.

Thanks.
I've already got Nero6.
I'll look into PVAstrumento.

Grumps wrote:
So what do people use?

I have a new DTV PCI card, and can capture movies etc to disk. I also
have a DVD writer. So what is the best way to get the movies onto DVD?

I have downloaded a trial of 'Cucusoft AVI to VCD/DVD MPEG
convertor', which works ok but is so slow. Not even realtime using my
3Gig P4. The you have to run 'MPEG to DVD Author'.

And what about editing out adverts?

I've also tried MS Movie Maker, but that crashes after a while.

Then there's DVD Santa. Doesn't crash, but just seems to stall in the
middle of a big file.

I'll try all of these on my work's PCs to see if there is an inherrent
problem with my own.

I use TMPGEnc DVD Author.
It trims, removes adverts and burns without fuss.
Very fast too.

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda.html

Try it out.

Ted

There is a guide at www.doom9.org for DVB to DVD-R conversion which are
quite quick and keeps the quality and video just as good as the dvb.
Editing
is also in there.

I get a message "404 site not found"

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"Ted B" wrote in message
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Grumps wrote:
So what do people use?

I have a new DTV PCI card, and can capture movies etc to disk. I also
have a DVD writer. So what is the best way to get the movies onto DVD?

I have downloaded a trial of 'Cucusoft AVI to VCD/DVD MPEG
convertor', which works ok but is so slow. Not even realtime using my
3Gig P4. The you have to run 'MPEG to DVD Author'.

And what about editing out adverts?

I've also tried MS Movie Maker, but that crashes after a while.

Then there's DVD Santa. Doesn't crash, but just seems to stall in the
middle of a big file.

I'll try all of these on my work's PCs to see if there is an inherrent
problem with my own.

I use TMPGEnc DVD Author.
It trims, removes adverts and burns without fuss.
Very fast too.

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda.html

Try it out.

Together with DVDPatcher, TMPGEnc does the business.
Thanks for the suggestion.

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:56:37 -0000, "Grumps"
wrote:

So what do people use?

I have a new DTV PCI card, and can capture movies etc to disk. I also have a
DVD writer. So what is the best way to get the movies onto DVD?

And what about editing out adverts?

VideoRedo to edit ads.

Ulead DVD Movie studio to generate DVD.

Job Done! ;-)


Bye for now.

Clive.

Grumps wrote:

Thanks.
I've had a quick look at this site. My captured mpeg is in a single file
(video and audio), but the tools that I've tried from doom9 (DVDPatcher and
IfoEdit) seem to expect separate files for each.




If you want ease-of-use then buy Nero 6.

Use Nero Vision express to make your own DVDs and edit video however you
like. All in one program. And it will work with your single mpeg file.