.ts files, can they be used for DVDs?

[AMCooper63]

I just got my Fusion HDTV5 Gold card working. I've discovered .ts files. I did enough searching to find out that they are called Transport Stream files. I create DVD with ULead DVD Movie Factory 4. Now I've discovered that it doesn't understand .ts files.

Is anyone using these files to create DVDs?

How are they doing it?

Can you make DVD's in 16x9 format?

[mkanet]

The latest Neno Express is probably the best (and easiest to use app) for this. You can basically drag and drop any video format (including .ts files) into that app and burn a DVD, SVCD, VCD with menus effortlessly. It will fit the video perfectly on the DVD if the .ts file is too big (if you want). The better way to do it of course is if there were a "Burn to DVD" plugin stvi for SageTV 3. I'm not going to hold my breath though since it look like that project was abandoned with SageTV 2.x

[Kanati]

DVDs are 480i. So what you wind up with, if it'll play on a set top box, will be a 480i scaled down video losing the hi-def...

You could purchase a dvd player that will play DiVX-HD and keep some of that HD goodness, but there's few and far between that will do Divx-hd at this point in time.

[AMCooper63]

Thanks for the help, but I can't find anything called Neno Express. 480i isn't a problem for me. Will this software also allow me to edit the video before I burn it to DVD? Perhaps I did just find it, Google offered a spelling correction to Nero Express. I'll go look and see if it applies.

[JasonJoel]

Yes, it is NERO express. typo in that other post... Jason

[Kanati]

Originally Posted by AMCooper63

Thanks for the help, but I can't find anything called Neno Express. 480i isn't a problem for me. Will this software also allow me to edit the video before I burn it to DVD? Perhaps I did just find it, Google offered a spelling correction to Nero Express. I'll go look and see if it applies.

I think it comes with Nero Burning Rom only... Don't think it's a separate product but I might be amiss in that statement.

http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/

That site has a freeware tool to convert transport streams to mpeg2 files and from there you can use any number of programs to create dvd's.