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Option 1: Try simply renaming the file to the extension Nero uses - *.nrg I think.
Option 2 (which is what I do): Use SpruceUp to burn to a titleset rather than an image, then burn the files with Nero using the DVD profile (you'll need 5.5.9.9 or more recent for that I think). Just drag the IFO BUP and VOB files from the titleset into the VIDEO_TS directory that nero creates and hit "burn".
Take Coby's second option. I never use "images". It's much easier to simply author a "title set" which will give you an audio.ts and video.ts folder on your hard drive. Then use Nero and just drag and drop those folders to the disc. BUT ... be sure to set up Nero properly or the DVD won't play correctly. The procedure is posted on my web site. www.pcphotovideo.com
Click on the "Misc Ramblings" Icon and look for the link about Burning DVD Title Sets.
When you use "images" you bring in other variables attributed to the burning program itself. You have more control of the process if you follow Coby's 2nd advice as outlined on my web page. And in general have less trouble.
Rich..... Have you tried just using Nero's 'DVD Video' selection from the compile list? I hope I'm calling that the right thing. If you go: File>new> and then select DVD-Video. That's what I use, and it works just fine for me.
The above advice is, as always, sage stuff. However if you get into anamorphic 16:9 video, (as in the content you tend to find on widescreen DVDs), things can get a little fuzzier.
Here in the UK we are getting Enterprise season one in anamorphic widescreen on digital satellite so I capture it at D1 in MMC 7 then edit in womble and when I'm happy create a DVD in spruce up.
Heres where the fun begins. Spruce up doesnt support widescreen but thanks to Gareths video page, (who those of you who've been hanging around here for long enough may have heard of when Ross was performing his DVD by remote tests), I use the ifoedit method to change the IFO files to set the episode mpegs to play back as 16:9 stretched on a widescreen set or letterboxed on a 4:3 set, to do this I have to create a stand alone titleset then edit the IFOs then.... aha point of my post ahoy ! .... burn the titleset afterward.
I had a hell of a time getting this to work. I tried guides on Nero settings, alternate burners .. no joy. Burning straight from Spruce up worked a charm but burning from a DVD/CD burning package always produced disks that my pioneer 530 (and now a 350) and Playstation 2 wouldnt play or, (curiously), would only play the audio. Some played ok on the PC some didnt. Then I read the IFOedit guide at www.doom9.org, this is principly for ripping DVD9 disks to DVD-R but the last section describes the use of a freeware package called imgtools to take a titleset and....produce a compatible image file!
I then burn that image using Vivastar burning software, (horribly simplistic but very tricky to mess up since you just load an image untick the test only box and hit go). Providing my DVD writer is happy with the media in the drive off it goes and 40 minutes later I have an anamorphic widescreen DVD which works with 4:4 and 16:9 TVs.
Edz....Why not just use DVDPatcher to change the file from 4:3 to 16:9? I have a Dazzle DVCII, it will only cap 4:3. However my satellite outputs 16:9. I just run my cap through DVDpatcher - tales about 5min for a 4.2G file,and it's back to 16:9. I didn't think SpruceUp was able to author 16:9?
