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Right - I've just downloaded a 1 hour MP4 cycle training video - Can I now convert this and burn it onto a DVD so I can play it on the telly in front of the spinning bike?

Cheers

Enty

In reply to Enty:

Just tried DVD Flick - which has now gone into my top 2 worst pieces of software ever - just behind itunes.

Enty

In reply to Enty: hiya mate umm how old is ya dvd player your using? some of the newer ones will play mp4 or divx! anyway dvd - u need to burn files as mpeg 2 (which is one file for video, one for audio and then put toegther in a dvd authorign package for burn to dvd!)

windows basic software would be to use windows dvd maker (think movie maker can make the mp4 to mnpeg 4 just u need to burn in a authorign program! (vista and w7 both have this, if not think a free download) or Mac use imove and Idvd

In reply to Enty:

Can anyone help with this?

The file is SFFCIndividualMD.mp4

Looking to convert it so i can burn it to a DVD and play it on my telly.


Cheers

Enty

In reply to Enty:

Have a look round this site, particularly the ‘Guides’ section and the forum.

http://www.doom9.org/

In reply to EddInaBox:

Cheers - had alook at that -

Whoosh!!
^^^^^^
Enty

Enty

In reply to Enty:

I should be able to help a bit with the DVD authoring part of your task, that used to be my job, but converting mpeg4 to mpeg2 is potentially rather technical and much harder to help with from afar, as a first step can you download GSpot and tell me what information it gives for your file?

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/index.htm

In reply to EddInaBox:

Ok - did that.

came up with;

avc1
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
Codec status undetermined

Whoosh again


Cheers for helping though.

Enty

In reply to Enty:
You could try

Doom9

http://www.doom9.org/

or After dawn for advice on this one

http://www.afterdawn.com/

I've never gone MP4 to DVD but have gone DVD to MP4.

The sites should be helpful though.

Cheers

In reply to Enty: Your post reminded me I needed to do the same for a film downloaded as MP4.
Try this site
http://www.avs4you.com/Register.aspx?ProgID=21&Type=Install&URL=Reg...
and the AVS video converter programme. I've just downloaded it and it says it can do the conversion. Haven't tried just yet, but'll let you know.
Jerry

In reply to Jerry67:
believe AVS is limited on the freeware version - I think it'll do full length but put awatermark on it...

In reply to Enty:

Can you tell me the frame rate, there are two boxes on the right hand side of GSpot labelled ‘Pics/s’ and ‘Frames/s’ (and another marked ‘Fields/s’ which is probably blank) and the dimensions, and the aspect ratio from the boxes beneath labelled ‘pic (w x’ and ‘sar’ and ‘par’?

In reply to EddInaBox:

Hi mate,

pics/s - 29.971

Frames/s - 29.971

pic w x - 640x360

sar - 1778(16:9)

par - blank

will this do?

Cheers again,

Enty

In reply to Enty:

Two other things it would be useful to know, what is the approximate file size of your clip, and in GSpot what does it say in the ‘Audio’ section next to ‘Codec’ and ‘Info’?

Next get Avidemux, here's a link:
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html

See if you can drag in your clip and play it.

In reply to EddInaBox:

File size is 711mb

Audio:

mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC

44100Hz 128 kb/s tot , stereo (2/0)

Cheers,

Enty

In reply to Enty:

Ok, assuming your clip works in Avidemux you'll need to resize the video to be DVD compliant and convert it to mpeg2, you will also have to resample the audio to 48000 Hz and convert that to a DVD compatible format. The clip plays at 29.97 frames per second, which is the American NTSC standard speed, but rather than convert it to 25 fps which is U.K. PAL standard we shall make an NTSC DVD because pretty much any T.V. and DVD player combination should be able to cope, and that will retain better picture quality.

In the ‘Video’ pull down box select ‘DVD(lavc)’ then click on configure, make sure ‘Aspect ratio’ is set to 16:9 and ‘Interlacing’ is set to progressive. Click OK

Click on ‘Filters’ in the ‘Transform’ group double click on ‘Resize’ untick ‘Lock Aspect Ratio’ set ‘Width’ to 720 set ‘Height’ to 480 set ‘Resize Method’ to bicubic. Close the window.

In the ‘Audio’ drop down box select PCM, click ‘Filters’ tick ‘Resampling (Hz):’ and enter 48000, click on OK.

In the ‘Format’ drop down box select MPEG Video.

Save the project.

Go to the File menu and select Save -> Save Video give it a name with a .mpv extension and save, it will take a while to do the whole clip.

When done go to the Audio menu and select Save, give the file the same name but with a .wav extension.

In reply to EddInaBox:

It played in Avidemux but the sound was crap.

Enty

In reply to Enty:

I'm presuming you mean the sound was bad in Avidemux rather than after exporting it, try saving the sound as described earlier and playing it in your normal media player, is it any better?

In reply to EddInaBox:

Almost there (I think)

Done everything you said and I now have a mpv file and a wav file? What do I do with these?

Enty

In reply to Enty:

You may be able to do this using eRightSoft's Super, btw

It does have an output container of DVD in either PAL or NTSC

Super is a bit of a git to find out the download page, you have to follow some pretty stupid instructions, but it is a good program, and uses open source encoders such as ffmpeg...

see

http://www.erightsoft.com/dlhelp.html

Dunno why they make it such a pain to download, though...

In reply to Enty:

The next step is to create the DVD in an authoring program, Download DVDStyler.

http://www.dvdstyler.de/

Since I used this last the program has been improved, it now seems to accept non DVD compliant files and transcode them, which means it is going to be easier to use the original mp4 file rather than the mpeg2 you created earlier (sorry about that, but don't get rid of it just yet.)

Drag the mp4 clip into DVDStyler, it should appear at the bottom of the window labelled as ‘Title 1’ next to ‘Menu 1’ which should be present by default. You can create buttons for the menu to play the clip or jump to chapter points within the clip, if you want to do that just say and I'll help you through that, but if you just want to shove it in and have it play once, or continually loop, that is very simple.

For a put it in and play through once DVD:

Go to the ‘Configuration’ menu and select ‘Settings’ set ‘Default video format:’ to NTSC 720x480 16:9 and ‘Default audio format:’ to AC3 48 kHz. See below about chapters, but you can set the number of minutes between each automatic chapter point here too.

Right click on ‘Menu 1’ select ‘Properties’ verify ‘Format:’ is set to NTSC 720x480 and 16:9 Set ‘Pre commands:’ to jump title 1;

Right click on ‘Title 1’ select ‘Properties’ make sure ‘Video’ is set to 720x480 and ‘Audio’ is set to AC3 48kHz. In the ‘Chapters:’ box should be a series of time codes, chapter points will be put at these points and if you create a chapter menu you can add buttons to jump to these points or you can skip forwards or backwards to these points using the DVD player's remote control, it may be worth opening the clip in your normal media player and identifying time codes where you would like chapter points, for example if there is a really good bit you want to be able to find easily, and replacing the existing times with your own. Delete any entry in ‘Post Commands:’ click on the ‘Video...’ button set ‘Format:’ to ntsc, set ‘Aspect ratio:’ to 16:9.

Save the project.

Goto the ‘File’ menu and select ‘Burn DVD’ tick ‘preview’ and select ‘just generate’ if you are happy with it burn your DVD.

In reply to EddInaBox:

Wow - Big virtual pint coming your way mate!!

Just played it on the 42" in the front room - quality and sound excellent. Certainly couldn't have done that myself.

Cheers

Enty

In reply to Enty:

Thanks for the offer but I am teetotal - virtually.