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TG/FG Burning to DVDs

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Avalon

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I've burned most of the episodes to DVD, but for some reason some of them won't burn. I can play them on the comp fine, but my software (Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6) won't let me make a true (rather than data) DVD from it. The last 2 TG episodes which have new encoding are 2 of the ones that won't work. Anyone got suggestions?
 
Maybe try getting another burning program?? Roxio is great but not the best, and I can't think of the program I used to use, it was great but only for DVD's I'll try to find it :wink:
 
I've yet to find a decent and reliable burning program. Wish I could get Alcohol to burn more than just images as it's the best program I've ever used to burn things to CD/DVD with.
 
what's wrong with nero? i use it since my first cd-writer
 
Nero6 with the DVD-authoring plug-in is the best DVD burning tool I've ever used.

I usually don't like user-friendly programs, but even though it is incredibly simple, it has done absolutely everything I've wanted to do. It will re-incode videos automatically for you, so you don't have to worry about fussing around with video editing tools.
 
Inflex said:
zenon said:
Nero6 with the DVD-authoring plug-in is the best DVD burning tool I've ever used.
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Where do you get this? I've got Nero 6 Ultra.... haven't been able to get any Top Gear eps onto a DVD as video successfully with nero yet. I tried neoDVD but the quality was crappy.
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Well, in Nero 6 Ultra you should have a program called NeroVision Express. Depending on what version\license of Nero 6 you have, it may have an option for authoring a DVD (if it just says you can burn VCDs, then you need to get the DVD-authoring plug-in). It's really simple to use. I usually put 3 episodes of Top Gear on a single-layer DVD (3 hours), and the quality is pretty good.
 
Inflex said:
This appears to be the case... where exactly to I get the plugin? Is it provided by nero, or 3rd party?
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http://www.nero.com/us/28358.html
^ This is where you can purchase the DVD-authoring plug-in.

It's not difficult to find on P2P networks though. :wink:
 
zenon said:
http://www.nero.com/us/28358.html
^ This is where you can purchase the DVD-authoring plug-in.
It's not difficult to find on P2P networks though. :wink:
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Of course I purchased it 8)
I'll see how well it works later... if it's good quality it would be a lot easier than using TMPGenc, ifoedit then nero. Not to mention a hellova lot quicker.
 
Will Nero6 burn authored DVDs (proper DVDs, not just data disks) with the new encoding? Roxio won't... :(
 
If you have neroVision 3.0.0.12 or newer it will burn them as video(maybe with older versions, but that's what I have). The quality still isn't good enough that I can stand to watch them... it's decent but either the fram rate seems off or it's a little jumpy. Maybe I'm just picky. Haven't found any program or combination of programs that creates a DVD that matches the quality of watching the eps on a computer.

Avalon said:
Will Nero6 burn authored DVDs (proper DVDs, not just data disks) with the new encoding? Roxio won't... :(
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Roxio's DVD Creator's quality is very very good, but like I said, it will only burn 3/4th of the episodes.
 
Dump the Roxio software, and search the web for instructions on removing every trace of their software, especially registry entries.

Then either use Nero Ultra or else TMPGenc and TMPenc DVDAuthor.
 
Hi all.

WinAVI is a good program, but it doesn't create menu's.

I have used Winavi to encode 3 episodes then I burn it onto disk with Nero.

I had no sound when I used Nero Vision Express.

Regards
 
I have been using TMPGEnc and DVD Author, but 1 out of 4 dvd's has been 100% successful. All the others either have audio sync problems, or they get choppy and the video and audio turns into mush. I can't seem to get this to work properly. Does anyone use this program that could help me out? I've been encoding them using the CBR Linear PCM Audio. Should I use Mpeg 1 (Mp2) encode or something else? Any help would be great.

*Edit* I'm getting the NeroVisionExpress right now, and I'm hoping that will give me less of a headache. :bangin:
 
zenon said:
Inflex said:
zenon said:
Nero6 with the DVD-authoring plug-in is the best DVD burning tool I've ever used.
Click to expand...

Where do you get this? I've got Nero 6 Ultra.... haven't been able to get any Top Gear eps onto a DVD as video successfully with nero yet. I tried neoDVD but the quality was crappy.
Click to expand...
Well, in Nero 6 Ultra you should have a program called NeroVision Express. Depending on what version\license of Nero 6 you have, it may have an option for authoring a DVD (if it just says you can burn VCDs, then you need to get the DVD-authoring plug-in). It's really simple to use. I usually put 3 episodes of Top Gear on a single-layer DVD (3 hours), and the quality is pretty good.
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Just checking - I've got NeroVision Express (got Nero OEM with a dvd burner), and it lets me do the DVD-authoring (menus etc), but it's a bit basic (I've come from TMPGEnc DVD Author), is this plug-in more advanced or is what I have all there is?

Also - to get three hours onto a DVD - what bitrate are you using? I generally use 6500kbps, but I'm always worried about losing too much quality by going lower - you must be using something like half the bitrate I use.
 
Well, I tried to make a dvd with NeroVision Express and it failed to make the dvd.. No idea why, but it did. Back to square one I guess..
 
I record my Top Gear using my PC DTT card, which dumps the show as MPEG2 compliant streams on my hard disk. It is then just a matter of demuxing and trimming the start and end. I then use the fabulous and cheap (US$100) authoring package DVD Lab to create full-motion menus and burn using Alcohol 120%.

However, if you're starting with a 350Mb DivX or XViD file then I suppose you could either use Nero with the DVD plug-in (I haven't tried it) or use TMPGEnc to convert into DVD compliant .mpv streams. I did this with all the episodes of Lost that I downloaded.

Some of you may be running into problems because the original show is in PAL with 25 fps and a resolution of 720x576 when aired. NTSC not only has a different frame rate but also a different DVD compliant resolution. I avoided this problem with my Lost discs because I never converted from NTSC to PAL as my standalone DVD player and TV support NTSC.

Check out http://www.doom9.org for some good, in-depth guides and you will avoid audio synching problems in future.

Hope this helps.
 
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