DVD Burning

RewiredRewired Member
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
I’m using NeroVision Express 3 to burn AVI files to DVD-Video. It’s about 3 hours of video and Nero said it’s using an EP (or extended play) to fit it all to 1 disc. I finished the setup wizard and clicked burn. This is my first experience with burning DVD’s so I don’t know whether something is wrong but Nero has been working at this DVD for just under 6 hours now. It says it’s in the process of ‘transcoding and writing’. I understand it takes a while to transcode video, but 6 hours just seems too long. I’m using a Plextor PX-716A with 8X media. Is it normal for it to take this long to transcode and burn a single DVD?

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  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited February 2005
    Yup it can take that long, depending on the speed of your computer.


    Can you post specs of the machine you are using?
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited February 2005
    P4 2.4GHz * 768MB of RAM * Win XP SP2
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    AVI to MPEG2 means it's outrightly reencoding. "Transcoding" is bit of a large misnomer for what its doing, as the frame structure and container style between AVI and MPEG2 are wildly different.. Not to mention it's probably resizing all the frames for a DVD-compliant AR which most AVI files don't have.

    Depending on the MPEG2 encoder, it can be 3 to 12 hours (The difference between CinemaCraft Encoder and TMPGEnc, for example). I'd bet a hefty chunk of change that Nero's encoder is poor, and slow.
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited February 2005
    What video attribute does container style refer to?

    Is TMPGEnc the best out there? I downloaded WinAVI earlier today so I'm going to give that a go.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Ah, a container is the file structure in which the audio and video stream sits. It, effectively put, is what makes a file an AVI, or an MPEG or an MOV or any other format. All of them carry video and audio streams, but the <i>structure</i> in which those streams are presented is what sets the file apart.

    TMPGEnc is ok. It's the best easy AVI -> MPEG encoder out there.
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited February 2005
    I downloaded and am using WinAVI and it cut the rendering time by half compared to NeroVision. The discs I make with NeroVision will play in my stand-alone DVD player but the problem is the discs I make with WinAVI will not. They will however play in my PC and my parents’ stand-alone DVD player. So my question is, what could be preventing these discs from being compatible with my DVD player. I’m using the same brand and type media between NeroVision and WinAVI. My WinAVI files look like this:

    VIDEO_TS.BUP
    VIDEO_TS.IFO
    VTS_01_0.BUP
    VTS_01_0.IFO
    VTS_01_1.VOB
    VTS_01_2.VOB
    VTS_01_3.VOB
    VTS_01_4.VOB
    VTS_01_5.VOB

    The files I create with NeroVision include a VIDEO_TS.VOB file. This is the menu file. Could the void of this file make it incompatible with my DVD player?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Are all those files burned to the disc in a VIDEO_TS folder alongside an empty AUDIO_TS folder?
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited February 2005
    Yes, defenitly.
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited February 2005
    Could it have something to do with whether the video was encoded in the PAL or NTSC formats?

    Or could it have to do with the Book Type Setting of the burn? The choices are: Auto; DVD-ROM; Disk Type.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Should be NTSC DVD-ROM.
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited February 2005
    How can check the video files to see whether it is PAL or NTSC?
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited February 2005
    Ok here goes. I'm almost sure I figured out why NeroVision encoded discs will play in my stand-alone DVD player and WinAVI encoded discs will not. I used PlexTools to get in-depth information on the discs I've bunt and NeroVision encodes to MPEG-2 while WinAVI encodes to MPEG-1. The video container file for each have the VOB extension. Now I'm presuming that some stand-alone DVD players will play both MPEG-1 and M-PEG-2 encoded VOB files whilst others will not, my DVD player being the prime example. So, can you confirm or deny my hypothesis?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Confirmed.
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