Burning DVD for use in DVD players

[jpannier]

I have been researching this software, and although it appears to elude to it I cannot find specifically where it indicates that the DVD's that I might burn with recordings captured from TV can be played on a regular DVD player that is attached to, for example, someone elses TV. What I would like to do is archive some sitcom series on DVD that I could view on my big screen TV. I have XP Media Center, but when you record and burn to a DVD, it can only be viewed on the computer I burned it from.

Any help would be appreciated.

[dkardatzke]

SageRecorder only works with realtime MPEG-2 encoding cards which record DVD compliant files. Therefore, the files recorded by SageRecorder can be immediately burned to DVD and then it's up to your specific DVD burning software to address any compliance issues with other DVD players.

[medievil]

As with any dvd you wanna make you have to author it if you want it to play in a standard dvd player. Do a search for dvd authoring software and you will find what you need.

[jpannier]

I use MyDVD by Sonic. Do you know if this software will do the trick?

[Mike Young]

That will work. It will create a Video_TS structure which is what you need. Others are DVD Maestro and Scenarist.

[shodge]

DVDLab is one of the few that will not re-encode the MPEG2 files before creating the VOB's needed for the DVD structure.

Have Fun...

-Stan

[jpannier]

Thanks, everyone for your help. That's what I needed to know.

[trevorst]

I use DVDFactory from Ulead and it also will burn the files created by Sage without recoding. Just make sure you record in one of the DVD compliant formats. These have DVD in front of the name i.e DVD Long Play 2.5 gig per hr.

[tafguy]

DVD Movie Factory 2 from Ulead works fine.
CloneDVD too!

Use the above if you have to add menus, bitmap, sound navigation for movie factory.

If you go over the 4.5 gigs, use clone dvd after VIDEO_TS is generated from Ulead movie factory.

You can use either CloneDVD or NERO standard or express to burn your DVD.

Most of these work for me.

Somehow some old dvd player may not be able to play the disc, for those case you have to make sure to use UTF in Nero. Clonedvd does this already by default.