mpeg to dvd

[tracymort]

I tried to make a dvd, I have nero but choosing dvd option makes you use nerovision. I tried it, it took 3 hours! At 1st it seemed to have worked, but only on a pc. Put the dvd in a separate dvd player and you get a picture but no sound. The film started off as an mpeg1 and appears to have ended up as mpeg2.
Any ideas what i may have done wrong?

[PunkDaddy]

The format you need your video to be in for direct writing to DvD is Mpeg2, some software does conversion on the fly such as "Ulead DVD Movie Factory: Disc Creator 3" and will produce DVD's able to play in standalone DVD players. It is still a fairly yound technology and can be fairly complicated trying to get your video files into the correct format at the correct file size and all that. but apart from that I would find it impossible to tell you what you have done wrong as there are so many different programs for conversion and writing.

[tracymort]

Nero took so long because it was converting it into mpeg2.  what i can't work out is why there's no sound.

[Thunderchild]

it has evedently used a different format for the audio. it could be sampled at the wrong rate or be of a different amount of bits per sample for the standalone DVD player. check the technical data for the DVD player and see the format used to create the DVD. i think the standard is wave at 44 KHz sample rate and 16 bits per sample. note that raw is someti,es used to describe the wave format as thats what it is uncompressed digital audio.

sorry i can't help more but i have not rtried it yet my self and will never buy a seperate DVD player as i use the pc for everything

[TEAK36]

I dont think you doing anything wrong.I use Nero on an almost daily basis, and it is quite normal to take about 4-5 hours to burn an average sized movie.NeroVision Express automatically converts your files into the correct format for you,and although I have had similar problems to you,I have always managed to sort them out by starting again.You could try the SVCD option in Nero,but you are limited to the 700mb discs,and the quality is not as good as DVD.