How to create DVD-A compilation of several mpg1 clips?

Biomech wrote on 11/1/2004, 4:21 PM
I have the first 30 of 39 Beatles Cartoon Episodes from 1965-1966 in individual mpg1 files. All of the episodes are approximately 170mb in size and are all 30 minutes in length.

Is there a way to create a single DVD with menus that would contain 20 of the 170mb files. With the 20 files amounting to approximately 3.4gb in size this would leave plenty of room to create a decent menu that could direct to each individual episode.

I would like to place the files in the compilation uncompressed on a 4.7gb DVD-R.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 11/1/2004, 6:07 PM
DVDs must be MPEG2, which means all the files would be reencoded for burning. Since they're lowish bitrate files to begin with they quality hit you suffer may be pretty bad.

If it was me (and it has been when i've collected bunches of stuff like this), i'd just burn them all to a Data DVD rather than making a Video DVD. Any reasonably recent DVD player will show the disc's directory when it is inserted and you should be able to use the remote control to scroll through the file names to play the episode you want. That way you don't even bother having to create a menu and the files won't be reencoded. Try it with a DVD+/-RW first and see if it works on your DVD player.
Biomech wrote on 11/2/2004, 2:44 AM
A Data DVD is my last resort. I believe that these files are unfortunately encoded with audio at 44khz as well, which means I will be tediously rerendering each files audio. I was curious if a menu layout could be created with a more advanced app. such as DVDMaestro or something similar.

What it all boils down to is the fact that I would prefer to Not compress the video any further!




johnmeyer wrote on 11/2/2004, 7:37 AM
There are guides at the sites linked below that describe how to take VCDs (which use MPEG-1 files) and re-author them into MPEG-2 (DVDs) with the smallest amount of quality loss. Some quality loss is inevitable any time you "transcode" between one format and another.

You can probably adapt these guides so that you can use mostly Vegas and DVDA, although you'll still need a tool to demux the VCD.

DVDrHelp Conversion Guides

Doom9 Guide to Converting VCD to DVD

Other intersting links:

SVCD Compliant files onto DVD using DVD-A

Biomech wrote on 11/2/2004, 8:23 AM
Thanks Johnmeyer! I may be able to demux with VCDEasy, I will have to check on that.

I was also curious if something similar could be done in DVDMaestro?

Thanks again!