how do i convert mpeg layer 3 videos to a bin/cue file, or an iso file, or a file that would be directly burnable to a cdr or dvdr so i could just play it right away Or how do I convert it to a more easily convertable format?
??? MP3 is a music format, not a video one. The simplest way to 'convert' them (you have MPG videos, I suppose) is to encode tham into MPEG-1 format, author a VCD image with VCDGear (freeware) and burn them into a CD-R. About 80' such videos will fit on a 80' CD-R. Please note that you'll waste quality, if any, but since music videos aren't exactly 'colossals', I think this change is feasible. It has the best feature to be fast (three-four times faster than MPEG-2's multipass encoding) and, if you want to use one the best encoders available, TMPGenc, it is free, for MPEG-1 encoding.
Sorry but i dont quite understand will it burn 1 video to a cdr, thatll play directly in any dvd player, or will it do more then one i was hoping not to lose any quality any other ways?
It depend on which kind of video it is and which is the quality you want to keep (I'll suppose your TV system is NTSC; if it's substiture 480 with 576 and 240 with 288, after the 'x' sign). 1 DVD has maximum resulution = 720x480 and 155' movie fit in a DVD-R 1 SVCD has maximum resulution = 480x480 and 55' movie fit in a 80' CD-R 1 VCD has maximum resulution = 352x240 and 80' movie fit in a 80' CD-R You can fit (S)VCD movies in a DVD-ROM, if you author an image with DVD Lab (see the Afterdawn's guide). But the maximum final quality of your movie you can achieve strongly depends on the input movie's quality. If the movie was a 400x300 AVI, making a DVD from it is useless. You can worsen the quality, you cannot make it better. For example, if you have plenty of mpeg clips, 352x240 29,97 fps (NTSC standard) about 5' long each, you can author , with VCDGear , a VCD image containing about 16 clips. The same is for DVD. You used the word convert: a movie must be converted to a NTSC (PAL) system mpeg, first. This is necessary: 1) if the movie isn't a .MPG, or 2) if the movie dowsn't comply the with NTSC (PAL) specificaions. (well, if your player supports both PAL and NTSC systems, you need not to do so)
OK, so to take what i have for the majortiy of the videos i have, an mpeg layer 3 video clip, from start to finish, what do i need to do, and what programs will i need, to be able to put it on a cd-r or dvd-r and pop it right in a dvd player
you're not going to have an mpeg layer 3 video clip, as mpeg layer three (or "mp3") is an audio format. as suggested, you should probably look in the guides section. try to identify the actual video format, then go from there with the Search Tool.
Auslander and the rest of them are right. It's not .mp3, or else, for some reason, they are named that as an extension, but it should be .mpeg, .mpg, or .mp2 or something of that nature. If that's the issue, then you should try to rename them accordingly. Get AVIcodec from this site and see what type it really is, rename it, then author it with TMPGenc or something like Nero, then burn it in a fashion that will work with most DVD players. That's all I have to say. Just check the guides for further details. Good luck.
Just look at the guides. It should tell you how to do that. There's one called "changed DivX/XviD to MPEG-2" or something like that. That should give a relitively good idea about how it should work. Good luck.
