Posted by Nonymous on 01/16/67 11:48

"unclejr" <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote in
news:1148524867.552006.56880@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> scooby wrote:
>> To create a DVD (for play in a set-top DVD player) - is it best to
>> simply burn the .mpg file as a data DVD;
>
> Not usually. There are a few DVD players that will play raw MPEG-2
> files, but not many.
>
>> or is it preferable to author the .mpg file to .vob format (using the
>> supplied ULEAD software)?
>
> Yes, if you want most DVD players to play the data.

If they're for personal use only, I'd just spend the $65 and get a DVD
player that's mpeg-2 compliant. You'd then also have the original mpg
files on the DVDs in case you change your mind later and want to re-encode.

I've got two DVP642 players that I picked up at Target for something like
$68 a piece; one for the living room, other later on for the bedroom.

They'll play just about anything you can through at them... mpeg2, xvid,
divx, svcd, dvd +r, -r, rw, duel layer, etc. I bought one because I was
tired of encoding xvid and divx to DVD which was taking up both my time and
especially my computer's time. Ended up liking it so much that I bought a
second for the bedroom.

Like the OP, I also have a PVR-150 card and use the DVD players to playback
its recordings... record shows with the card, then copy to a DVD
rewriteable for viewing on the TV. Then I can recylcle the DVD for future
recordings.

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