[C.J. Moof]

Aside from ElGato's advised technique:
http://www.elgato.com/support/troubl...html#trouble15

Does anyone have a method to get MPEG1 content onto a DVD without transcoding to MPEG2? MPEG1 is a DVD-legal format, as long as the audio is the right bitrate.

I've been experimenting with the MacReplayTV app, but I get horrible synch problems when I use it. I've tried demuxing the A/V and paste scaled, which yields a perfectly synched video, but MacReplayTV will no longer create a DVD from those demuxed/pasted videos.

[melman101]

this might seem like a more convoluted way, but here is another method:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewto...=470930#470930

Sincerely,
Mel

[jtc]

Do you have access to a PC or virtualPC?

I use a TMPGenc to encode as 352x240 mpeg1, then ulead DVD movie factory to add menus, etc. and save as iso, and nero to burn.

I just made a DVD this way with about 10 hours of mpeg1 video.

edit: I should note that the audio must be 48 kHz (not 44.1 like VCDs), this is the reason I use TMPGEnc, it's easy to change the audio settings to make a DVD compliant mpeg1 file.

[C.J. Moof]

I've looked at that thread, but had trouble getting that to work. I think it's because the mpegs were edited- if you demux the A and V via bbdemux, then run the A through again, it finds multiple streams there. Problem is if I ask it to demux those, it seems to do a length equivalent to the start of the show to the first commercial break, then stop. The audio that produces plays back as nothing but static.

Since I started this thread, an opportunity to work with CaptyDVD came my way, and it appears to be working. It's happy to import my MPEG1 files and preview them with synched audio, and when we do the Get Info equivalent on the file, the after encoding size goes up by just a dozen megs or so- seems reasonable to be the difference between 44.1 and 48.0 audio.

We ran out of free HD space to compile the disc, so as soon as we can get a spare FW drive on that machine, we'll know if we can render the disc.

And yes, I could go PC with this... I'd prefer not to.