[Tutorial] How to Convert AVI to Standard DVD for TV

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

How many episodes do you recommend burning on one disc? The ones I have are around 450 mbs in avi form they uncompress to 1.97 gbs if I uncompress with an episode size of 4.37 gbs. I am not exactly sure how the rest would uncompress if I convert 4 episodes at a time.

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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I really like HQ video's Big Smile

I was just wondering does the quality contribute to the time taken to make the DVD? as in following each step in the tutorial? Including the Menues.

Thank you soo much in advance <3
Love the Tutorial by the way Smile

Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hi, just wanted to say thanks for this thread. It's really useful!

I managed to get everything working but I'm a bit stuck right now & unsure what to do.

I set the SimpleAvis2DVD working on converting 10 20 min episodes. Only problem is the computer switched itself off during the night when it was halfway through converting the 5th episode. Because it got interrupted I don't have a DVDAuthorGui file.

I've attached a picture of all the files that are in the output folder. EDIT: Removed pic.

What should I do to get all 10 episodes together on one DVD? I want to put them all into DVDAuthorgui but I don't know which files to put in.

Can you help? Sad

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

There is probably something wrong with your 5th episode. The log file should give a clue as to what went wrong. If your first 4 episodes went fine, then you won't have to convert those again. You can restart from the 5th episode, but you would have to make a new dvdauthor file with all the episodes when you're done.

Can you post or email me your SimpleAvis2Dvd log file?

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:51 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hey there, I've got another problem.

I carried on converting the rest of the episodes as I want 10 to a DVD. In the video output folder I've now got 2 MPEG files that show only the video and 1 movie clip that shows only audio for each episode.

Problem is, both of the MPEG files for any of the 10 episodes are too fast. Each episode lasts about 25 mins and the running time is now shown as about 6 mins. It seems to be going about twice as fast as it should.
The audio only files for each episode are fine.

Is this normal? If I just loaded the episodes into DVDAuthorGUI would the audio and video be out of sync? Would the episodes be too fast once I've authored them?

Also, as each episode has two video files each I'm unsure about which ones to load into DVDAuthorGUI. E.G. One file is named ~~05 and the other ~~05Pulldown. When I view both video files they look identical.
Should I load the Pulldown video episode into DVDAuthorGUI or the other one?

I hope I've managed to explain this okay and that you'll be able to help.

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Actually, ignore the post above.

I authored one video to test it out and it seems to all be in sync. I'm not sure what happened but it worked so I'm happy!

Thanks for making this tutorial!!

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:08 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Great info. I just want to recommend a program I use called convertxtodvd to people who are still having problems or just want a very easy way to convert files to dvd. It's converts basically mp4, avi and mpg or basically any video you have to dvd. Just drop and drag. Add subtitles. It creates menus and titles automatically. Add your own pics, change colors of subs, add music, etc. Hit the encode button. Wait for it to finish encoding then just burn it. The easiest and most simple program I ever used. Just want to help people out who don't want to go through all the steps mentioned. Big Smile

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/vso_convertxtodvd_guide.cfm

Free version has watermark. $50 to buy.
http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/

You can download the registered version at torrent sites such as btjunkie.org, mininova.org. (download at your own risk)

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hi kyuuketsuki,
I have a question. Sometimes when I encode an avi, I get individual MPV and an MPEG Layer 2 Audio, but not MPEG Movie file together. Can you tell me how I can 'merge' the two MPV and MPEG audio together to get the MPEG movie file?

The reason is when I try to Author the MPV and MPEG audio using DVDAuthorGUI, it won't let me create the chapters correctly. I do the 5 min chapter and it will create chapters at 5, 10, 15, minutes and that's it. If I have an MPEG Movie file, it will create the chapters evenly.

Thank you. Your tutorial helped me create my DVD collections, over 600 discs.

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hi, kyuuketsuki!
Please help me, if you know how. Pease, tell me, if I have already 4 episodes of a TV series made as an 1 DVD only, how can I separate them to have 4 separate, independent 4 episodes again? It' s about to inverse the process you teached us here...
The resultant episodes not to be DVDs, but avi, mpeg, or another extension.

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i get an error when while simpleavis2dvd is encoding, it says CCE encoder thing is missing ? how am i suppose to set it to QuEnc, i went into dvd2svcd and clicked QuEnc under encoder but that doesn't do anything?