Technology N2TS file

[Casey]

Does anyone know how I can convert a .n2ts file to a DVD and burn it?

 

[Prize Gotti]

Latest version of Nero should support N2TS and M2TS files.

 

[Casey]

Cool, thanks. I want to compress it to DVD though. The file is like 8 GB but I don't have a Blu-Ray burner, just a regular DVD burner.

 

[masta247]

N2TS or M2TS?

Anyway try this: http://staxmedia.sourceforge.net/

Or buy a dual layer DVD disk, it'll fit. Some dvd players won't play it though.

 

[Casey]

N2TS...thanks, i'll have a look!

 

[Prize Gotti]

Cool, thanks. I want to compress it to DVD though. The file is like 8 GB but I don't have a Blu-Ray burner, just a regular DVD burner.

I think it just converts the video to dvd standards, therefor compressing the size, and then burns it to the disc.

 

[Casey]

My bad, it was M2TS.

 

[masta247]

That's easy. The program that I linked should do the job. It has quite a lot of options for quality and formats anyway.

However if you Google for 'M2TS to Avi/whatever you want' you should also come up with a lot of options.

 

[Casey]

I tried to install it, it said I was missing a bunch of DLL's, after I got them all, it told me one of them was shareware and I had to register it, and then when I tried to register it, it said another DLL was missing. That shit is lame as fuck. I'll grab a copy of Nero off the torrents or something.

 

[masta247]

lol, that's weird. Works okay for me.

I don't think Nero will allow you to change format or compress the video. But I didn't really use it much so I'm not sure.

 

[Cooper]

Get Nero Vision, that'll open it, convert it, whatever you want.

 

[Prize Gotti]

Regardless of what the file type is, it has no bearing on what it outputs, as long as the software has the codec to play it. Burning video to a disc is much like hooking a VCR upto a DVD player, playing the dvd and recording it onto a VHS. Regardless of how good or big the file you start with is, the VCR can only record to the quality it is capable off. The same applies to burning a HD video to a standard DVD. The burner drops down the quality to match what it is capable of and burn it to the disc as raw video data.

I think that makes sense.

 

[masta247]

No, not at all. It's not VHS-analogue stuff where a type of medium determined the resulting video quality/format.
If you record something in whatever format you have without converting it to raw (which would be like converting mp3 to wav to burn it onto your CD) it remains in the same format on your DVD. You can easily burn a HD video to your DVD in its original format and play it from the DVD. You don't have to buy a blu-ray just to record an HD video. The problem is that long HD movies with little compression won't fit on a single DVD disk and many players don't open dual layer DVDs, that's why HD movies are sold on blu-ray disks.

 

[Casey]

I ended up using ConvertXtoDVD to convert and burn it, gonna go watch the movie now.