hi all

ive just bought a dvd-writer and wanna make dvds
i have many xvid/divx/mpg movies i head from several friends that dvdmestro is the best but i am totally noob with dvd authoring proggies

when i press ''open'' in dvdmeastro u can only open ''dvd projects'' or any files

every time i wanna open movies it says the same old thing :

this version was created with a never version and cannot be loaded ?
\every single time . when i open mpeg xvid divx
even this one he cant open

DVD PAL (MPEG-2 720x576 25fps CQ 65, Layer-2 48000Hz 384kbps)-----> this one was a xvid.avi


what should i do guys
ow and how do i add subs on it i have .srt and .ssa

thnx for any help m8s

You may wanna check out the Tutorial section. A wealth of knowledge in there

sire yes sir
checkin it out right now :P


oke ive checked but ..
in the tut is telling about divx to dvd+ with the app tmpgenc, that app cant add any subs to it

an the other tuts is about dvd to dvd+R wit the app dvdmestro

so correct me if am wrong

i have to make my xvid movies first to avi then avi to dvd

and then i can configure it with dvdmeastro

This is the one you want.....
http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showthread...threadid=61142
This is the best way to convert Xvid/Divx to DVDR. I dunno how to put subs though cos I never do it myself

If you want Subs then thats the way to do it. Subs need to be in Meastro compatable form though. They can also be imported in to DVD2SVCD as well. Explained in the Tute.

First you have to make the files DVD compliant if not compliant already. You can use TMPGEnc to encode to DVD compliant files.

To import the files right click in the brown area of maestro and import assets. Then you have to drag video and audio to the movie window, make chapter points and make a meny and link everything to work properly. There is a nice dvdmaestro guide on www.doom9.net

To make subtitles you need MaestroSBT to convert from ssa subtitles to Maestro subtitles which can be imported to maestro.

It is also possible to add subtitles with IFOEdit and there is a subtitle converter called srt2sup which converts srt subtitles to IFOEdit format. I have never done that so I don't know the exact method to do it.

that is mpeg 2 i presume
oki have a mpg file but still dvdmeastro cant open it

it says media not supported


update



this is a mpeg1 or 2 i dont knopw really but
dvdmeastor says that it istn supported

what does dvdvmeastor support then ?
perhaps mine dvdmeastro has to be reinstalled ?

Maestro will only import DVD compliant MPEG2 files. Not all MPEG2 files are dvd compliant (such as a SVCD file). It will ONLY import them as Video and Audio streams as well, not as an MPG file. You need to demux MEG files to video and audio streams first (TMPGEnc can do that) AVI's of any form cannot be loaded into Maestro.

If you want to know more about Maestro, have a read here http://www.geocities.com/eaussie01au/maestro.html