Hello. I am a high school coach who recently talked my school into buying a JVC hard drive camcorder for taping games, to save on tapes and time (I thought). My first problem was when the video files were downloaded to my computer I had to rename the file extention from MOD to MPG to edit with standard editing software. I did this.
Here is my new problem, by trial and error (about 15 disks) I found that I could just burn the raw video files after I changed the extentions to a Data Disk using Nero and It played on my DVD Player (Coby DVD 238). I was so happy because this only took about 10 minutes for a 40 minute film and no encoding needed. The problem is it will not play in any of the school's DVD Players or any of my fellow coaches DVD players either. I will not be editing much on these films, does anybody know another way to make these files play without spending 2 hours transcoding them?
Any ideas are welcome, I am getting a lot of ribbing from other coaches at school.
Mystic E, Thank you for your reply, the answer to your question is yes, changing the file extention allowed it to play in media player and others. Have you used the software "Convert X to DVD" before and if so, how long would it take to encode a 40 minute film from mpeg. I am looking for something that would be as fast as dubbing a VCR tape if this is possible.
Use it all the time. It has 3 quality settings that influence time and size of the resultant file. It will encode a 90min. AVI (can't remember the last time I ran an mpeg through it) in < an hour, which is faster than tape dubbing (your computer's speed comes into play), then you would add to that your burners write time. Obviously additional copies will be straight copies.
Thanks for all the great suggestions. I found a way to make it work in about 40 min. for the first copy, it would be faster if I had a better processor, also, additional copies will be much faster. Although, it appears I will need to purchase the software "tmpgenc dvd author 2.0". This software seems to make the mpeg files work in most dvd players, and most importantly in the other coaches'. I also found through reading, another way that was free, but it did not work with one of the coaches dvd players, however it did work in 3 out of 4. This process might be elementary to most of you readers, but it wasn't to me. So, maybe it would be of use to somebody reading this post.
First run a program called "DemuxGui". It takes the mpeg file and separates it into audio and video files like most dvd players want it. Don't worry, you will not lose your original mpeg files. It makes a copy and puts the new split audio and video files in the same directory as the mpeg files were in. You must name the audio file that is separated, I just went with the number from the mpeg file so i knew what video file it matched up with.
Second run a program called "DVD AuthorGUI" this puts the audio and video files into forms and folders recognized by most dvd players. You must add the video file followed by the matching audio file, and it will then appear in the program. Once all the files are added hit author dvd. It will create a folder that you name, and it will store the folder in the same place as the directory of the audio and video files you added.
Third I just burned the whole folder on a data dvd using Nero 6.6.14. This worked in 3 out of 4 dvd players I tried it in. You can try not burning as a data disk, but I wanted a fast process, not one that had to encode the files. The whole process took about 35 min. for 37 min. of film, it would be faster if I had a better process.
Hope this is of use to someone, and remember battling through the frustrations makes success that much more enjoyable.
