How to encode .m2t for DVD

I have .m2t files, pulled from my DVR box thru firewire. I've tried converting them to several different QT friendly formats (.mov, .avi, .mp4, Divx, Xvid, etc), but each time, the audio ends up gradually out of sync with the video. To clarify, everything is synced up at the begining of a movie, but the audio gets further ahead of the video as it progresses.
My ultimate goal is to be able to get these videos on to a standard def DVD.
Any ideas?

Hey I've been trying to do the same thing (transfer shows from my Motorola DVR to SD DVDs) and I came across your post; I have since discovered a way to do this! Not sure if you've tried MPEGStreamclip (it's free!), but I just found this little tip in the Streamclip user guide:
CONVERTING THE STREAM
Convert to MPEG...
converts the stream into a muxed MPEG (program stream) file; if the frame size is
suitable, you can import this file in Toast 6 or 7 or Sizzle and burn it directly, with no
encoding time and no loss of quality. Audio is left in its original format (MPEG, AC3 or
PCM).
So I tried it: Opened the .m2t file (imported from my DVR) with Streamclip, then chose the Convert to MPEG option. Toast recognized the resulting MPEG file and burned a DVD without recompressing it--nice--, which was the first time I had ever seen that happen. This seems to be the most direct way I've found to get .m2t files onto DVDs.
Funny, I had never chosen the "convert to MPEG" option because I presumed that "MPEG" meant lower-quality MPEG-1, but it really is an MPEG-2 file.
Good luck!
sno-man

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