Burning DVD

lynj wrote on 10/29/2002, 11:41 PM

I just completed my first DVD burn. I used MYDVD V.3. About half way through each file (except one) on the menu I lost audio. Total silence. It also seems to be rerendering my MPEG2 files. It take forever to burn a 15 minute DVD. Is it better to use AVI files or MPEG2 files? Anybody got suggestions. What's the point of rendering if everything has to render again? Anyone got suggestions for a step up in programs. Easy to use, but more features and reasonably priced. Thanks.

Comments

dsanders wrote on 10/30/2002, 3:28 PM

MyDVD will only re-render an MPEG file if the MPEG file was created using settings that are not DVD-legal. The best way to "feed" MyDVD is to give it two files - one DVD-legal MPEG file for the video and a second WAV file for the audio. There are VV templates available for you to do this. If you include audio in the MPEG file, MyDVD will "Transcode" the audio (strip it out) and convert it to PCM (.wav) thus adding time when creating the DVD. For more information, stop on over at the MyDVD forums. Post you questions in the MyDVD 3 and MyDVD 4 forums. But you need to be patient. The MyDVD forums do not get the same about of traffic as this forum and the moderators very rarely speak up and give advice.

PDB wrote on 10/31/2002, 4:30 AM

Try other authoring programmes which do not re-render. I've tried:

Ulead DVD movie factory (around 50$ but 30 day demo with full features)
Dazzle DVD complete (limited demo features but slightly more powerful then movie factory - for 100$ aprox) Neither re-render mpegs encoded by Mainconcpet encoder - I have only tried with deafault settings btw....)

I had Mydvd bundled with my firewire card and at the risk of sounding harsh, absolutely hate it...

TLT wrote on 11/2/2002, 3:51 PM

I use Dazzle DVD complete. Rock solid program. It actually works. Highly recommended. http://www.dazzle.com