Burn Episode to DVD

[steve1999_CA]

Does anyone have a guide on how to take recorded episodes and burn them as DVD's?

I'm thinking about creating a plugin to do it if it proves feasible, but my specialty is programming, not video.

[davisj36]

I use Ulead DVD MovieFactory (which came with my 350) to convert the files to the DVD format (.VOB). If the file is to big to fix on a dvd I run DVD shrink to compress the .vobs and burn them on the dvd.

Hope that help.

[Peter K]

I use Tmpgenc DVD author. It's very straightforward and you can even so some elementary trimming of the video so if you are recording a tv show and use pre and post padding, you can strip out what you don't really need.

Here's what works for me.

1. Strip out commercials and other stuff you don't want with something like Womble MpegVcr or VideoRedo.

2. Use Tmpgenc DVD author to author the dvd file and write the data to the hard disk.

3. If necessary, use DVDshrink to make it fit onto a single DVD in case you set the recording bandwidth too high.

4. Burn to DVD.

At least that is what works for me.

There are other solutions out there that will basically do all those steps mentioned above but they tend to be pricey and you may be faced with long waiting times for re-rendering and things like that.

Hope this helps,
--Peter

[tybreizh29]

Hi,
I have started such a plugin, for now I can select files to burn and burn them on a blank CD, I use nero dll an Delphi to do so, if you want, we could work together. Send me an email if you are interested.
Regards,
Bzh

[colin]

For something like this i would highly recommend spending some time on the doom9.org forums as this kind of thing is covered in detail there.

You may also find some existing projects you can piggy back onto (eg. check out dvd author - open src authoring tool), plus you will get directed to appropriate places for documentation pretaining to specifics you may need,

cheers,
Colin.

[jquinlan]

Quote[/b] ]I use nero dll an Delphi to do so,

Have you got a Delphi plugin working or are you using a C# plugin talking to a Delphi app/dll.

I also have the Binary Magic CD/DVD Burner VCL for Delphi if you would want some help with that piece.
Sound like you are just archiving the Mpeg files to CD/DVD?

[jorm]

What about a tool that can convert the audio lpcm to ac3 format?

[tybreizh29]

The user interface is in Delphi, it's called from c#.
It calls the Delphi Nero API to burn, as it's the only one I could use without using cracks (not a good idea for public stuffs) or paying 200$ (Binary Magic is great but I'm not that rich, especialy to develop free stuff).

In the windows world I found no free stuff for burning DVD (I mean no software I could interface easily), only projects that just started or some projects to burn CDs.
Not even a small example for video DVD with the nero API.
To add some spice to the problem, the examples provided with the Delphi API are not working.

My first step is done and it's a small step:
User interface burning files to cd, works with dvd on an iso medium.
Attached is a print screen. Buttons are ugly, my main concern is to make things work, beauty will come at last.

Next step:
Build real video DVD with menus...

What could be done is to start an open source project in Delphi using free stuff, nero API or something else if exists.

I prefer using existing stuff than loosing my time coding the same things.

I think as no PVR provide DVD burning, such a project may interest some people.

There are many things to do, any helps would be great.
Send me email if u're interested.

cheers,
Bzh

[steve1999_CA]

Have you looked at http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/

I tried to get it to work but I couldn't get it to work without creating a menu.

As soon as I figure out how to create DVD's from episodes myself (easily) I'll be willing to help with the plugin.

[jquinlan]

Quote[/b] ]It calls the Delphi Nero API to burn, as it's the only one I could use without using cracks (not a good idea for public stuffs) or paying 200$...

I only have the VCL's due to a custom project a small company wanted and I received the full cost back for them after the project was paid for, so I do own them.
What I can do to help is maybe write a small system tray application that can be called with parameters that will burn the files to a CD/DVD or even burn an ISO image to a disk in a selected drive.
I can make it a command line app so that all of the features are available that you may need. The video convertion part I have no experience with so I can't help there.