DVD Nightmare

[acestu]

One of my mates just bought a new pc, then tried making his first movie in Power Director, he exported his results in Mpeg2 in order to burn a DVD film for his DVD Standalone player, however the Nero burning software that came with it said Oh you need to buy our Mpeg2 plugin to do that mate off the net shop, so obviousely we downloaded it off Kazza tried it again and it said Can't do this you are using a beta version of our Mpeg2 plugin..... so any ideas fellas ... simple ways and all that .. coz me eds spinnin... now....

That Pinnacle Direct copy is on there but it won't let you copy a protected DVD so not fit for much really..

But surely if you can make a DVD quality movie on the damn thing, you'd think that you would get some software that could burn the Feker.....



CheersM8s
Acestu

[butty]

what ver of nero u usin mate? im usin nero 6 ultra edition and it seems to do everything including things like reencoding files which i couldnt do with earlier versions of it (got the same kinda warnin as u did)

[acestu]

Ill find out later Butty and let ya know m8....


cheers
Acestu

[fugjostle]

erm... I have a full version of nero I can make available with the mpeg decoder with it.

Let me know and I'll up it.

[acestu]

Allright Mr Jostle, does that nero allow you to burn MPEG1 and 2 to a DVD mate?



Cheers
Acestu

[Myk]

Although DVD is effectively an MPEG2 the structure needed to create a DVD Video disc uses VOB. Therefore whatever app you use all be it Nero or something different you will always have to re-encode your MPEG2 to VOB's before the burning can take place. If you use Nero to do this (yes you can) you will face 2 problems. 1. Nero has a really crap quality encoding engine compared to other apps that are designed specifically for the job (i.e TMPG DVD Author, Sonic DVDit, MyDVD, Neo DVD etc). 2. Its very slow compared to these other formentioned programs and it won't allow you to vary the bitrates beyond its 3 standard settings where the others will.

My advice (for what its worth) :

For passing any MPEG1 or 2 or Divx/Xvid or Avi directly to DVD you want a copy of Neo DVD 5 (currently available on most P2P networks, Overnet, Bit Torrent, EDonkey, Kazaa etc etc).
For authoring you own DVD's from VHS or Mini DV etc then use Sonic MyDVD, again available on P2P networks.
For copying DVD games and DVD5 Videos use CloneDVD (not DVDClone, which is a clone of CloneDVD) or Alcohol 120%.

For ripping protected originals use DVD decrypter (freeware) and for reducing ripped films from DVD9 to DVD5 format use DVDShrink (also freeware).


Think that about sums it up...questions on a postcard to......

P.S Take a look at http://dvdrhelp.com for further guides

Myk

[acestu]

Cheers for the info Myk, i'll check out those progs and see if i can get it to work....

By the way myk if my supersleuth powers are correct, i beleive you own a computer shop in spain, just wonderin mate if shipping over from you would be cheaper than bying here?


CheersM8
Acestu

[Myk]

Depends on what youre after, almost everything is cheaper other than a monitor due to its shipping weight.

What ya after ?

[acestu]

Alright MYK, ocasionally get CPU's made up for customers, u got any spec & Price examples....


Cheers
Acestu

[acestu]

It's only a Lite Version givaway on the PC Butty, ie Nero SE, So I Downloaded what was called nero 6 off Kazza and when i unzipped it , it turned out to be something called ACT version 6, some sort of database programme, so i'm gonna try again tomoz.....

Cheers
Acestu