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Hello people out there!

I was wondering if anyone out there can help me with a dvd problem i have. I have recently downloaded some episodes about 30 odd. From a very popular yet old tv series and I was wondering if people could help me out with regard to burning them to dvd.

Each episode is approx 80 meg and 20 mins long and I was wondering what is the best program to encode these files quickly and add a simple menu with a good background and poss some buttons.

I have Nero 6.0 (doesnt allow you to create menus)
Ulead DVD Workshop 2
Win AVI converter

If i use Dvd Workshop and add the simplest of menus it takes forever to burn a dvd literally hrs and hrs and thats a 2Ghz pc with 256mb of ram and loadsa HD.

Can you people PLEASE recommend a better and quicker way of burning them to cd and how many can i reallistclly fit onto 1 dvd at a time. How long should it be taking to burn each dvd with approx 3 episodes on?

Are these episodes in DiVX or MPEG1 or 2?

You should be able to fit around 6 episodes on a DVD without adding to your compression artefacts. The reason DVD workshop is taking so long is because it is re-rendering the files to MPEG-2, which is a big job. You might have better results if you can ramp up your RAM, but only might.

J Mark Oates

I`ve been using TMPGEnc DVD Author which lets you put multiple mpg files on a dvd

The episodes are in DIVX format.

I can easily convert the files using WINAVI converter which takes bout 40 mins alot less time to convert them to dvd vob files.

Having said that even when they are converted and then imported into dvd workshop it still takes along time to burn the cd with a menu.