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How can I get various different .avis/.mpgs onto a DVD and run it in my DVD player? W/ CLIFFS NOTES!

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My burner is the nec 3500a. I have the most recent Nero, and Ulead 8. I have some video files in various formats. If I use Nero's nerovision I can turn them into VCD or SVCD files and copy them to CDs. Great, they work in my DVD player. What I wanted to do though was copy them to DVD. Unfortunately even if I make the VCD and then copy the data directly to a DVD my dvd player won't run them. So, I guess that the only video type you can have on a DVD is dvd video, and vcd/svcd will be ignored by my player.

So the natural step is to take these video files and put them into DVD format on my DVD player. I make a movie in nero express and then when I get to the final screen it says that there was a problem with the video transcoder or something (it's what takes an .avi and makes it into dvd video). I should note that I get this same error when trying to make a SVCD (whereas VCD works fine).

So, my final attempt is to make my movie in nero express, then export to DV format. Then with Ulead 8 I can import this DV file and make a standard DVD movie (unfortunately I'd be limited to 2 hours or so worth of video, whereas if I could have kept them at the hyper-compressed state of VCD I could have gotten many times more than that, but oh well). I convert it to DV with Nero express, but the movies just end up as blank audio/video-less playable files. So my final(2) attempt is to use nero to export them into MPEG-2 format, and import that with Ulead 8 (I'm only doing Ulead 8 to try all my options). I manage this with a small video file, but a large one it just gets about half way through and then nero express (or is it vision? Anyway) continues to suck up 98% CPU time, but never gets anywhere. It's not "hung", but it's not doing anything.

Thanks for ideas 😀

CLIFFS NOTES: Really I want to do this:
1) Convert .avi and .mpeg files of various formats (divx and all that mumbo jumbo) into something "pure" like MPEG-2 or something that would be easily turned into a DVD movie.
2) Q: Is it true that a DVD on my DVD player can _only_ have DVD video on it, and there would be no way to trick the DVD player into running VCD or SVCD files from this DVD disk?

Thanks again!!
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
We are to assume then, that you've already checked your DVD player for DivX playback capability?
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I have not even had to get to that point to be honest with you. I can confirm that it runs VCDs and SVCDs that are recorded to CD, but my problem isn't so much getting it to run anything as getting the damn video on the disks in the first place!

 
Originally posted by: Czar
doom9.org
vcdhelp.com
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Doom9 isn't loading. I've tried vcdhelp.com aka dvdrhelp.com and it's got so much damn stuff on there that I can't find anything specific! There has to be "the" utility that people use to convert file types?

EDIT: Actually I am looking at a bunch of convert guides. thanks, I will check em out 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Czar
www.doom9.org works

idiotic web masters who dont have anything accociated to their plain domain name 😛
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Yeah I noticed that with the www. in front I was good to go. I think that blockbuster suffers from the same problem actually!

Looks like dvdsanta or winavi are the ticket for me.

In regards to question two: is it possible to have a normal dvd player read vcd and svcd files if they're on a dvd and not only from a CD?

 
A DVD will accept VCD mpeg1 files but....>

a) the audio needs to be encoded at 48khz (and not a VCD's 44.1khz)....pretty simple.

b) the GOP may well be wrong for DVD usage so that will need correcting if your authoring package (or DVD player) refuses the file.

CLIFF NOTES
1) Tons of tools available, try WinAVI if you want a simple solution.

2) You can 'trick' my DVD player (it hates SVCD's but plays VCD's OK), what i do is burn mpeg2 files from SVCD's (after extacting with ISOBUSTER) onto a DVD (burnt as a DATA disk and NOT a DVD-VIDEO disk) and my DVD player then plays the same files (from a folder view) FAULTLESSLY....try it.


 
Well I heard using 'virtuaDUB' to 'convert' your files to mpeg-2 then use "TMPGNC" to build the the files and then use Nero to burn it.

I haven't done this myself but my friend has and it works.

Koing
 
Still fiddling. WinAVI froze half way through converting a movie - same as nero did. Weird! 99% resources still, but nothing's happening. Just tried dvdsanta, but it's junk software. It has no progress bar, and it tried to turn a multi-hundred meg file into a 1.08 meg dvd file which it put on the disk and pretended that that was it. ha!
 
Argh! Nothing's going right. I can't get a damn video file to convert at all, and using dvd decryptor I had no problem ripping a disk, but then with shrinker when I try and encode it it always hangs during the first 1% and says that there was an execution error with the program!

I'm on windows 2003 server with a barton 2500+ CPU and abit nfs7 or whatever the heck that mobo is 😉
 
OT: that mobo of yours is the NF7-S 😀

should have onboard SATA RAID, I found out the hard way after I purchased a PCI add-on SATA RAID Card... 😱
 
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