"Michael Robison" <zsp### [at] gtenet> wrote in message
news:40396194$1@news.povray.org...
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to make a DVD out of a file I converted with TMPGenc using the
> DVD NTSC option.  It turned my AVI into a 33MB M2V file.  I then used my
> Roxio CD Creator to supposedly write the file (data option) to the DVD.
It
> took about 3 minutes and quit.  I tried to play the DVD on our DVD player
> and it wouldn't play it.  I looked on the DVD on the computer and there
> doesn't show any files on it, but I can look on the DVD physically and it
> looks
> burned.
>
> Can you tell me what's wrong?  Is my copy of Roxio CD Creator too cheap?
> The only option was to finalize the session, not finalize the CD.  The
> finalize
> CD option was greyed out.  Is that the problem?  Or is it that I'm using
an
> option for a data write.  Can I write the data to the DVD with TMPGenc?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,  miker


IIRC, you will need some sort of DVD authoring software that will create the
contents of the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD. I've had success with DVD Movie
Factory (ulead), This also has options to set up the menus. Also, make sure
the MPEG file is encoded as MPEG2.

Here's an article on using only free tools to get the job done (but sounds
like no menus:
http://tinyurl.com/23zbq

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