Anyone know something cheap, that actually works, can, maybe, recode 
things a bit to make them fit, if needed, and won't bloody crash on me?

Made a DVD a while back from the clips for Colour of Magic (thanks 
britain, I love not being able to just buy this stuff some place...). 
Its 22 segments, for a total of about 3 hours. So far I have tried:

Nero Recode + Super -  Super produces almost the same quality of video, 
but I am short of space on my C drive (stupid choices made when setting 
up the OS), and it doesn't let you set the temp folder any place but the 
default C:/Windows/System/Temp... So, even if I go for a lower quality 
copy, I can't translate it to VOB, so I can put it on the DVD.

Seemed to work, with each segment as a separate file (22 segments, for 
about 3 hours), once recoded to fit, but I didn't try it in every 
player, so when someone else borrowed it, it played on their computer, 
but not their DVD player. Since Nero doesn't seem to bloody include 
anything to a) combine them, b) burn more than one of the original mpgs 
to DVD as VOB (assuming it even converts), or c) let you create any sort 
of damn menu. Oh, and why the hell is the only frakking option in Nero 
for creating things from other classes of files either "DATA", or 
"VCD/Super VCD". They even have this listed under "create a DVD", or the 
like, but the bloody thing a) doesn't list it as an option, and b) its 
"make your own video", which lets you clip stuff together, won't produce 
the same quality as the original (sigh..), and only saves to disk, not 
to a DVD. It just drops you back to the menu, then lets you pick between 
VCD/SuperVCD. If you don't same the video first, while in edit, after 
editing, you can't even do that. Bad Nero! This is shitty design, and 
confusing even to someone that has *some* clue what they are doing.

Tmpgenc - Can concatenate the original 1080p video into like 360p 
(ugh..) Fails to play them, no matter settings used, in the updated 
Windows Media Player, does in WMP Classic... See above for the result of 
trying to use Super to convert to VOB (complete failure). According to 
the site it comes from, I just wasted my money, because its encoder 
sucks, tends to desync, and the "replacement" is like $100. :head desk:

DVDStyler - Had high hopes. Crashes at odd times. Failed when starting 
to burn, without saying why exactly, then crashed again, when I tried to 
remove some of the segments, and make 2 DVDs instead (on the chance that 
was the problem). If they fixed the damn thing so it worked right, 
warned you about some things, and didn't crash, this looks like it would 
be a damn good one. That said...

Blaze Media Pro (test version) - Ate 90% of CPU time, took 6 hours, with 
6 more to go, when I killed the process. O.o Slow much?

CopyToDVD - Don't remember, but it sucked too. Think it might have been 
that it refused to support anything close to the original video 
resolution, didn't include "cram to fit", and was almost as slow as 
Blaze Media. I.e., shitty video, just like Tmpgenc.

Anyone know how the frak do you do this and have it not either drive you 
nuts, take more time than a POVRay render with radiocity + IOR + 
mirrors, maintain some semblance of video quality (hell, I would even go 
for 720p at this point, if it bloody worked right, and the options to do 
that where not just a list of sizes, and some option to pick aspect 
ratio, I presume 720x576 16:9 is 720p???), and have the final result 
*actually* play in things?

But, basically, so far, everything I have tried seems to suck at it.

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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