A couple of questions/comments caught my eye -- don't know if this will be useful to anyone, or if the original posters will look here or not, but nothing ventured nothing gained.
"I am looking for a VIDEO FILE SPLITTER to use for making DVD’s. Video files are too large to put on one DVD. Every FILE SLITTER that I have tried will split the file but changes it’s properties so that windows media player and others will no longer play the split files."
Nowadays the best way perhaps to handle larger files is to encode them to AVC, then put those on a Data Disc DVD if you wanted. DVDs are cheap, reliable, & don't take much physical space to store. Media players [software & hardware boxes] can usually handle AVC well. Many Blu-Ray players also handle AVC in a variety of formats on either disc or USB storage. You can also make regular Blu-Ray discs using DVDs -- DVD media is part of the Blu-Ray spec. Finding a new DVD player is a bit difficult nowadays, & old ones by now likely have failing disc mechanisms -- I wouldn't plan on using them for too much longer.
If you want to make an actual DVD it takes a special format mpg2 put into a special format by DVD authoring software, then burned as a video DVD to a DVD blank disc. If you want to split the mpg2 on a DVD there are more than plenty of tools available, though the folks at Womble may make the best apps for that. Bear in mind however that it still needs to be put into a DVD format if you want to watch it with a DVD player. Windows Media Player by itself cannot properly play DVDs.
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" I cannot learn how to convert a video I download for example from You Tube so I can play it on my DVD player connected to my tv."
Depends on what your DVD player can play. All were designed to play mpg2 encoded to video DVD specs, put into a proper DVD format, & burned as a Video DVD. Many could also play some variation of DivX... DivX, & the commonly substituted Xvid have several optional processing features that are supported on some DVD players & not others. The key is researching [or experimenting] to find out what yours handles, if it handles anything DivX.
My 1st choice would actually be to get a media player, or a Blu-Ray player with media player capabilities built-in -- models are available that include the older connections if your TV does not have HDMI. My 2nd choice would be the DivX route. My 3rd choice would be a [probably USB] device to use as a video output from my PC to the TV. Only if I had to would I go the YouTube -> DVD route.
DVD video needs to be in spec -- that includes the frame size, frame rate, interlacing, mpg2 encoding settings, & then needs to be placed in a DVD format before being burned to disc as a Video DVD -- not as a data DVD. You might need a decoder for the YouTube video, e.g. ffdshow installed. AviSynth &/or Virtualdub could handle resizing, & maybe the fps. HCenc could do the mpg2 encoding. DVDStyler [as dadams posted] would work for the DVD format -- the free version of Muxman would be easier. ImgBurn would do the burning. I wouldn't expect any of it to be pretty, but it could work.
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"Converted a 1.9GB ts stream to 2.2GB mpg in 20min. Both CPU raise up to 60%, 40MB in memory, so you can easily use it as a background process. Conversion hangs up at 99%, had to close the program, no error message, mpg file is ok, but too large. My mpg editor usualy reduces the size at “orginal quality” to ~3/4."
A good encoder should use all cores at closer to 100% -- you want them working to get it over with. Usually 40-60% CPU indicates GPU assist -- GPU-Z will tell you if that's happening. You usually don't want to encode in the background because it has to be seamless from disk read to write -- any interruptions are likely to mean defects.
Not sure what you have with mpg. It could be mjpeg, with is a stream of jpg images. It could be mpg1 or 2. If it's mpg2, & your source is AVC, the file sizes are usually pretty close using the same frame size, fps, & bit rate [quality setting]. Quality would be less than AVC because for the amount of data used, AVC simply can store more useful info or data. Higher bit rates use less compression so don't lose as much data but files are larger. If one codec or format is more efficient than another, it will retain more of the original quality. If your editor reduces the file size the output format is either more efficient than the original, keeping as much data as possible at a lower bit rate, or it's throwing some source data away. Those are the 2 possibilities you get with any video re-encoding or conversion. You always have some generational loss -- when your editor [or any video app] has an original quality setting that's simply relative to settings with more video compression, or they're just blowing smoke.
