Need help burning a DVD from HD

[dakels]

ok I have a DVD movie on my HD right now. Its a special pressing for select viewers and not for commercial usage. Again, THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIAL STORE BOUGHT DVD. I am not trying to make illegal copies or anything. The folder was sort of ignorantly copied over to the HD like a file. It does work just fine off the HD and normal commercial DVD viewing applications. Now I want to get it on a DVD+R disc.

Its a MPEG-2
4.55Mbps video Bitrate
no region
frame rate is 29.97 NTSC
720x480 resolution 16:9 aspect ratio
48k audio sampling rate
6 channel Dolby AC-3 audio

The folder called *its a secret*
sub folders AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS
audio folder seems to contain nothing and no hidden elements
The video folder contains:
untitled folder with nothing in it
VIDEO_TS.BUP 6 KB
VIDEO_TS.IFO 6 KB
VTS_01_0.BUP 102 KB
VTS_01_0.IFO 102 KB
VTS_01_1.VOB 1,048,306 KB
VTS_01_2.VOB 1,048,300 KB
VTS_01_3.VOB 1,048,208 KB
VTS_01_4.VOB 1,048,284 KB
VTS_01_5.VOB 262,968 KB

The movie is roughly around 3 hours? There are no menues or features built in since again, it's a special pressing for a specific audience. A commercial version will be made, but not for several months.

When I use a DVD player application it reads right from a VOB file. I make
a que sheet of all 5 in order and it plays them consecutive (with a tiny 1/2
second delay between each.

Now... shouldn't I be able to burn these onto a DVD with a que sheet or will it not most likely read in a standalone? Do I have to combine this into one image package to burn onto DVD? Whats the deal? I'd like to make it clear that I only want this for myself to watch on the TV and not my computer so it has to read off a standalone DVD player. What are these types of files and what burning app will read them? Is there any CSS encryption on this?

thanks for your help

 

[dakels]

p.s. can someone recommend a good DVD+R and +RW media and brand?

 

[pulse8]

If it's under the 4.7GB mark, then you have a few easy options.

One is to just use Nero to burn a DVD-Video disc and copy the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder into the VIDEO_TS folder of the compilation.

The other is to get the IMGTOOLS program that comes with IFOEdit, make a drive containing the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders and then create an IMG file and burn with a program like Record Now MAX or something that supports IMG files.

 

[Wag]

Nero is the best bet really.

I use Nero to master my own home movies, just write it to the HD and it plays back like a regular DVD.

 

[dakels]

cool thanks alot for the replies. I am familiar with this on a Mac but I didnt know what to use on a PC. I have Nero so this should be a breeze hopefully. I will try on DVD+RW first and see if the DVD image lays down properly and maybe even read on my standalone panasonic DVD player. I will be using Fuji DVD+R and DVD+RW media.

Whats odd though is the Audio_TS folder is empty. I guess it is incorporated into the VOM files? So I shouldn't worry about any syncing issues? It is dolby 5.1 surround sound in normal DVD 48khz sampling rate. Guess I'll try and see. I have a surround sound decoder and speakers so I will see if it comes thru ok.

 

[dakels]

nevermind, I got it all to work and it looks and sounds fantastic. No artifacts or problems of any kind. Of course that method of transferring VOM files only gets you the video and audio and no menues, but thats fine. Thats how this orginal DVD was setup anyways. The final burn to a Fuji DVD+R worked fine on my Panasonic standalone DVD player and my surround sound decoder.