what a good program to use to convert a x264 video file to dvd....

[cowboysroy31]

Well i am looking for a program that will make a x264 video file into dvd files. Because the ones ive messed with all make the audio outta sync on convertion.

[ricardouk]

DVD FLICK was the only one i had sucess with on the "all in one click" applications range

[halsboss]

Hmm, I wonder if a version of this would work ... would have to encode the audio to MP2 as well, but that's only a couple of extra flags. Also remove the interlaced flags too since the input is probably progressive.

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic337231.html

Latest version of the free ffmpeg at http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/

Thus the .BAT file would probably be something like (remember undo the line wrapping below)

set fINPUT=D:\HDTV\INPUT.mp4
set fOUTPUT=D:\HDTV\OUTPUT-ffmpeg.mpv
set fSIZE=720x576
set fASPECT=16:9
set fMAXBITRATE=9200k
"C:\SOFTWARE\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "%fINPUT%" -target pal-dvd -sameq -maxrate %fMAXBITRATE% -dc 10 -s %fSIZE% -aspect %fASPECT% -acodec mp2 -ab 192k "%fOUTPUT%"
PAUSE

Let me know how you go.

Cheerio

[jman98]

Hmm, I wonder if a version of this would work ... would have to encode the audio to MP2 as well,

This is bad advice for people in NTSC countries (the original poster is in the USA) because MP2 audio is invalid for NTSC DVD use. There are some authoring programs that will let you do it, but technically the DVD standards ONLY allow MP2 audio on PAL DVDs and some authoring program may refuse to allow MP2 audio when making an NTSC DVD. Otherwise, it was nice of you to provide such a helpful post and perhaps the original poster can figure out how to change the audio to AC3.

[ricardouk]

This is bad advice for people in NTSC countries (the original poster is in the USA) because MP2 audio is invalid for NTSC DVD use.

From What ive read and seen here and elsewhere ntsc players will play MP2, its not standart but it play it.

[halsboss]

Thanks jman98. Oops. I guess AC3 could be produced instead of MP2, with the right switches... Ah yes, with info from late in the thread http://forum.videohelp.com/topic338564.html#1762669 :-

The .BAT file would probably be something like (remember undo the line wrapping below)

set fINPUT=D:\HDTV\INPUT.mp4
set fOUTPUT=D:\HDTV\OUTPUT-ffmpeg.mpg
set fSIZE=720x480
set fASPECT=16:9
set fMAXBITRATE=9200k
"C:\SOFTWARE\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "%fINPUT%" -target ntsc-dvd -sameq -maxrate %fMAXBITRATE% -dc 10 -s %fSIZE% -aspect %fASPECT% -acodec ac3 -ac 2 -ab 192k "%fOUTPUT%"
PAUSE

Changed - size from 720x576 to 720x480, from pal-dvd to ntsc-dvd, from mp2 to 2-channel ac3. Also assumes 16:9 aspect ratio but you could change it to 4:3 if you need.

Let us know how you go.

Cheerio

[halsboss]

Be careful with ffmpeg after all. The ffmpeg user mailing list confirms what I subsequently found out by testing and examining the bitrate in a btrate viewer... ffmpeg produces bitrate spikes in the resulting output file which go outside the DVD spec.

Back to the ever-trusty HC !

[guns1inger]

I have used DVD Flick, FAVC and ConvertXtoDVD to convert .mp4 and H264 MKV files.

[_MrC_]

Let's add AVStoDVD to the list too...



Bye