AVI/MPEG to DVD

[teeswizard]

is there a 1stop way to do it? (not including burning)

[Heartless Angel]

I'm still learning, but I'll give you my thoughts... If you already have an .mpg file, and it's compliant to DVD standards, you should be able to author/burn it. If it's an .avi file then, no--you have to convert it to .mpg to make a DVD compliant file.

The closest "1stop" way would probably be to convert an .avi in TMPGEnc and hope for the best.

Well, hope I didn't lead anyone astray here...maybe someone else will chime in.

"Fallen Angels never forget the scorn they have endured... For even after days and months and years and centuries they still feel the pain and hatred for those who have wronged them."

[mysterio1]

I tried using all these programs MY DVD, Nero Vision, Ulead Movie Factory and some others, none of these programs work, some have error message's others say the file is not compliant or some other crap.

Is their a program that works I havent seen it yet. I do use NERO to do VCD's on CDR's it works everytime.

[SaSi]

Making a DVD requires authoring it. It's a process some programs "hide" from the user providing them with an easy drag-and-drop interface and some limited options.

My best recommendation would be ULEAD DVD Workshop. May be a bit expensive for what it does, but I've tried it for some time and it works. Would be using more of it if it supported subtitles.

If your source is DVD compliant MPEG-2, then it will be directly accepted. Otherwise it will be re-encoded. Same with AVI.

However, you "should not" want the authoring program to do the MPEG-2 encoding. A standalone encoder is the best tool for that job and it pays to learn the extra step.

The cheapest good solution is CCE Basic. Equally cheap but much slower is Tmpgenc. More expensive is Mainconcept and (for me) it's equal to CCE Basic. There are quite a few others, however don't seem to be very popular.

The process would be to encode the AVI into MPEG-2, taking care to make the resulting file DVD compatible. Each encoder have their own presets (recipies) to help in this.

The second step is to import the MPEG-2 file(s) into the DVD authoring program.

ULEAD DVD Workshop will even do the recording for you, saving you from the third step.