MPG ---> DVD.. Help!!

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sstrawsb

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hello. ive been scanning the board for a while and i cant seem to find my answer anywhere. ive also googled it and havent got much help. well to my question..

Im trying to burn videos that i get off a FTP server to a dvd to play in my cars dvd player. the videos come in a MPEG format. Ive tried many time burning the videos in Toast or Dragon Burner. im not so sure what i need to do. Do i need to convert the videos to a different format? any responses would be greatly appricated.

Thanks for your time,

Sean
 
You need to convert it to...well, a DVD (there's not really a better name for the format). That means MPEG2 video, usually ac3 audio, wrapped up in vobs, packed in a VIDEO_TS folder.

I like to use ffmpegX to convert movies to burn-ready VIDEO_TS folders. ffmpegX can be a little overwhelming, but it has some good presets that make it easy enough to use.

Just be sure you have about 12GB of free space on the volume you're saving the burn-ready files to.

Toast Titanium is supposed to be able convert movies to DVD-friendly form. Maybe you don't have the right version, or maybe the MPEG is not compatible with QuickTime, which Toast uses. In any case, I can't offer much advice here since I've never used Toast to create DVDs (only to burn the DVDs I've made with other apps, like ffmpegX).
 
Not sure which version of Toast, you're using, but mine (7) has a DVD option. Putting MPEG files there works just fine. It probably has to transcode the movie(s), which can take a loooooong while, but after all, it works.
 
fryke said:
Not sure which version of Toast, you're using, but mine (7) has a DVD option. Putting MPEG files there works just fine. It probably has to transcode the movie(s), which can take a loooooong while, but after all, it works.
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Im using version 6 Titanium. I didnt try using toast this time. i used dragon burn. not so sure why lol but i did. I will try using toast again and see waht the outcome is.

You need to convert it to...well, a DVD (there's not really a better name for the format). That means MPEG2 video, usually ac3 audio, wrapped up in vobs, packed in a VIDEO_TS folder.

I like to use ffmpegX to convert movies to burn-ready VIDEO_TS folders. ffmpegX can be a little overwhelming, but it has some good presets that make it easy enough to use.

Just be sure you have about 12GB of free space on the volume you're saving the burn-ready files to.

Toast Titanium is supposed to be able convert movies to DVD-friendly form. Maybe you don't have the right version, or maybe the MPEG is not compatible with QuickTime, which Toast uses. In any case, I can't offer much advice here since I've never used Toast to create DVDs (only to burn the DVDs I've made with other apps, like ffmpegX).
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Thank you. You information was more then valuable. i am downloading ffmpegX right now.


Thanks again

Sean
 
Mikuro said:
You need to convert it to...well, a DVD (there's not really a better name for the format). That means MPEG2 video, usually ac3 audio, wrapped up in vobs, packed in a VIDEO_TS folder.

I like to use ffmpegX to convert movies to burn-ready VIDEO_TS folders. ffmpegX can be a little overwhelming, but it has some good presets that make it easy enough to use.

Just be sure you have about 12GB of free space on the volume you're saving the burn-ready files to.

Toast Titanium is supposed to be able convert movies to DVD-friendly form. Maybe you don't have the right version, or maybe the MPEG is not compatible with QuickTime, which Toast uses. In any case, I can't offer much advice here since I've never used Toast to create DVDs (only to burn the DVDs I've made with other apps, like ffmpegX).
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When using ffmpegX which option should i use to export the video to? there is a lot of options lol. i tried dvd-lo but it didnt create a Video_TS folder.
 
sstrawsb said:
When using ffmpegX which option should i use to export the video to? there is a lot of options lol. i tried dvd-lo but it didnt create a Video_TS folder.
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Yes, there are a LOT of options, and it can be very confusing.

I like to use "DVD ffmpeg". I find it to be a bit faster than "DVD mpeg2enc", although either one should work just fine. "DVD-lo" probably isn't what you want, because it creates low-resolution output. I've never played around with that myself, so I'm not sure exactly what the pros/cons of it are.

Also, keep in mind that these options won't create a VIDEO_TS folder immediately. First they'll create a few files like ".mpv" and ".wav" and ".mpg" (or something like that), and then as soon as it finishes doing that, it will compile the data from those files into a DVD-ready VIDEO_TS folder (this step doesn't take very long). This is why you need about 12GB of free disk space even though DVDs are only around 4GB. I like to have free space equal to at least 3x the size of the final product.

There's also a How-To on the ffmpegX web site that you might find helpful: http://homepage.mac.com/major4/dvd_sub.html
 
Or, simply use Toast. I'm pretty sure version 6 already had the ability to create DVDs from any Quicktime compatible file. You just "create a video DVD", drop the MPEG file into it and click the big button. Everything else is done by Toast. No funky configuration skills needed.
 
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