then nero should be the tool of choice, I did it with .mov files back with red vs blue. I know for a fact that nero can handle most if not all avi formats.
problems burning disc for use on DVD player
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Off topic but, harddrives are so cheap these days, why not just go get a 500GB external drive that can output videos, music, and pictures to a tv/monitor. lacie makes one for less than $100. Burning discs is so wasteful and it's a pain in the ass to deal with them. Not to mention A harddrive with 500GB of xvid encoded videos is cheaper than 500 DVD discs encoded in mpeg2. (my math? from my experience a 4.7-8.5GB dvd movie is the same as a 1GB xvid/h.261 video.)
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Well, if he's trying to convert an AVI to DVD format, he's taking 100-300MB file and turning into a 4.7GB disc - this is not to save HD space obviously. Tis more likely he's trying to make it play on someone's DVD player. At least, that's the only reason I ever do it. 
If Super has a working video - I'm not sure what the problem is... Does it go out of sync when you try to author and burn the video that Super produced, or are the software suites in question simply not taking the video Super made? Or are you, somewhat foolishly, just trying to skip the extra Super encoding step?
Still don't know what codecs this thing is using... Or even the container (although I guess you've said AVI). Is it XVID, DIVX, OGG, H264, MP3, ACC, AC3...?
If Super has a working video - I'm not sure what the problem is... Does it go out of sync when you try to author and burn the video that Super produced, or are the software suites in question simply not taking the video Super made? Or are you, somewhat foolishly, just trying to skip the extra Super encoding step?
Still don't know what codecs this thing is using... Or even the container (although I guess you've said AVI). Is it XVID, DIVX, OGG, H264, MP3, ACC, AC3...?
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Well TMPG author stop working when I choose to "write DVD folder into DVD/RW", probably I have to get a newer version compatible with VISTA or something.
And whats so strange about having a series in DVD so I can watch it on my TV screen?
And whats so strange about having a series in DVD so I can watch it on my TV screen?
Nothing strange; it's something I did years ago too. It's just an outdated way of doing things imho. What happens years down the road, will you still be inserting dvd1 for ep 1-4 then dvd 2 for eps 5-8 etc... While you could just go click and it plays on the TV.FER said:
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Ye can't prepare for the future by ignoring the present.Rickler said:
OOohhh... Well, it it makes a working VIDEO_TS folder, all you need to do is burn it then, and just about anything can do that...FER said:
I actually wound up using my Vista laptop to burn some DVD's when my main rig's DVD burner went on the frits. I did the encoding on the main rig, and just had the laptop do the burning... I don't like the newer versions of Nero that work with Vista (too much overhead, plus it fux with folder display), so instead I used this little piece of shareware ... What it is, is a really crappy quality shareware AVI2DVD program - however, it has a burner function that is unlimited use and free. Just click on the HD to DVD button, browse to your VIDEO_TS folder, and vwah'lah.
This Freeware Program - although all but useless for conversion, also has a Vista compatible burner, I think. Lots of these little proggies do. There's a Microsoft provided Vista power tool that'll do it too, but I think it requires you convert it into a DVD-Video compliant ISO first, and I don't know a free way to do that (although MagicISO has a thirty day trial, if this is a one-shot deal.)
nero may have a bit of overhead in the newer versions however I have grown tired of having multiple programs to do one task when nero can cover such a large variety of tasks.
That's just me though.
That's just me though.
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Just wanted to say I found a way to convert my videos flawlessly.
Format Factory does the job perfectly.
Tough for some reason I cant watch some videos with some of the players I used.
Format Factory does the job perfectly.
Tough for some reason I cant watch some videos with some of the players I used.
