I have searched and searched and still cannot find the answer on this site, maybe I have overlooked it. I used TMPGenc to author my home videos. They come in two separate files, a .wav file and Mpeg-2(.m2v) file. How do I go about burning these to make them DVD compliant.Do I have more authoring to do, do I have to merge the audio and video together? What programs will make this easier on me? Any help is much appreciated.
No you used TMPGEnc to encode your home videos. Author. TMPGEnc DVD Author. http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda.html Actually when you use both TMPGEnc and DVD Author together you don't have to make separate audio and video files. You can make a single .mpg file in TMPGEnc or it will also work with the seperate audio video files. I just find it easier to make a single file. Then you can check the audio and video together before you author.
Using TMPGEnc Encoder and making seperate streams for audio and video is better, because the TMPGEnc author requests both, otherwise it might experince some problems when you try to play on your dvd player. If you used the author, you would already have two folders named: audio_ts and video_ts. Usually the audio_ts is empty unless you have AC3 audio in your movie and have to extract it before you convert. So, you should use TMPGEnc DVD Author to make your menu's and automatically create folders: Audio_ts and Video_ts!
DiRect, I'm glad you became such an authoring expert over the last week but I have been using TMPGEnc DVD Author for a while now and have made many DVD's and have never needed to use separate audio and video files. All those DVD's played fine. DVD Author will accept a single MPEG-2 complient .mpg file that contains both audio and video or it will accept the separate audio and video files. AC3 audio may be an exception where you need to use separate audio and video files but probably doesn't apply to home video like we are talking about here.
