i have a bunch of mpg files that i used to burn with nero as a vcd. the mpgs are PAL but now that i have a dvd burner i authored my first dvd and was able to put 15mpgs into a DVD using TMPGenc Author(using this guide i just added the mpgs and burnt the dvd with TMPGenc) but i had problems playing it back in a dvd player since the DVD was PAL.

ive been trying to find other ways of putting the PAL MPGs into a DVD and have the DVD work in any player(need it in NTSC format), my question is i found these 3 guides, if possible can anyone tell me the difference between the 3 and which one has the option of changing the output to be PAL or NTSC (Like DVD-Lab) i wanna avoid changing the MPG from PAL to NTSC and just use 1 program that will do the job.

first guide
second guide
third guide

the output i got from the DVD made with TMPGenc DVD Author was good, only problem with it was that i was only able to play it back dvd players that has the option of changing the TV mode. i played around with WinAVI and found it easy to convert using the batch conversion to DVD but i wasnt sure about the quality of the sound and video, and how long it would take to finish(TMPGenc finished in about an hour and 30 mins).

any recomendations on the 3 guides or which one you guys prefer over the other(quality wise). btw out of curiosity when i use to make vcds with nero, in the Burn Compliation menu there is a option called Encoding Resolution PAL or NTSC, any ideas why my dvd player was able to play back any of the vcds i created which was a mixture of PAL or NTSC vcds. just wondering if the vcds PAL or NTSC output is different from a DVD\'s.

Post edited by: af9148, at: 2005/01/12 03:48

hey afonic thanks for the reply, i have another question. with the first guide are you just changing the audio and then using TMPGenc to author the episodes into 1 DVD? and since i have the actual MPEG i could just skip to step 5 and just use BeSweet right? but whats the difference between just using TMPGenc to do the whole thing? does using BeSweet first cut down my output time in TMPGenc DVD Author?

and is the quality for WinAVI really that bad? from your guide you make it sound like a great program to use when converting to DVD lol.

thank again