Author Topic: Making AVI files into a DVD (Read 1905 times)

Taint · « **on:** November 06, 2003, 03:38:09 PM »

Anyone have any expierence doing this?
I have many, many avi files, and I would like to compile them onto DVDs for viewing on my normal DVD player. The problem I am encountering is that if I already have the video source, the program will encode it at best quality leaving only 60 minutes of space on a DVD. This seems unaceptable to me, since the average file was less than 600 MB. By my math, I should be able to get 7 of them on a DVD, not 1.
It was recommend that I try using NERO to make a VCD using DVD media, but that failed as well. I found some hints online that you could put multiple VCDs onto a single DVD, but was unable to find any good instructions.
Any help would be appreciated.

Pride · « **Reply #1 on:** November 07, 2003, 04:17:14 PM »

*bump* :bandana

Negley97 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2003, 04:22:17 PM »

That's a tough one Taint. What software are you using right now? Roxio's CD Creator 6 includes DVD Burning capabilities as well.

G1ZM0 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 07, 2003, 04:54:24 PM »

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

If I'm not mistaken, which I may be, I think nero can make VCD's form AVI's as long as you have the right codecs installed.

Taint · « **Reply #4 on:** November 07, 2003, 08:53:24 PM »

Gizmo,
You are correct in Nero will do the conversion from AVI to VCD automatically, but it will not burn it to anything other than a CD. I tried setting my media type to DVD, creating a VCD menu and adding the files I wanted to burn. It ran through the encoding fine, but when it started to burn it told me the correct media for VCD is CD.

sully! · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2003, 11:50:21 PM »

Taint, I might have an answer for you. I have never used either of these programs, but it looks like it may help.

First, there is a program called TMPGEnc that will convert .avi into mpeg2 (the format used on DVD). Once you have the mpeg2, you should be able to author your DVD from this point at the quality you want. Actually you can probably set quality right within TMPGEnc since Nero or MyDVD or Roxio or whatever will not be doing the transcoding.

Secondly, there is a command-line program called AVI2MPG that is supposed to do the same thing, but it's kind of clunky because of all the switches you need to set and such.

You can get the TMPGEnc at http://www.tmpgenc.net/. If you want to try AVI2MPG, just Google for it, it is a GPL program.

Hope that helps!

Author Topic: Making AVI files into a DVD (Read 1905 times)

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