Avi/XVid/DivX to DVD

[rIK]

I`ve been playing a little trying to convert my film collection into DVDs.

I was recomended a program called NeoDVD which takes any file and pops out a load of Vobs ready to burn to a DVD - excellent!!

Except that a typical XVid film comes out at over 5Gb

Now I have also "aquired" *ahem* the 1st Series of both CSI and 24, and would like to put these onto a DVD, but using this program mean 2 episodes per DVD - this can`t be right but I don`t have the knowledge to know why.

I also tried another program which reported 35 hours for a 700Mb movie to convert to DVD Compliant PAL mpeg clip on my system:

P4 2.53
512Mb DDR400 RAM
200Gb ATA133 HD Space
etc etc

Is this time right - does it really take this long per film?

My other option is to simply burn the avi files onto a DVD and watch them in my XBox, but this is last resort really.

Cheers guys.

[todgerme]

okay, so check your divx's for correct frame rates, modify audio and video frames if necesary to comply with pal or ntsc frame rates, do not let the encoder do this. all a encode does is pad missing frames with dupilicate frames giving a staggered look especially on pan scans! use cbr mpeg 2 @3500kbps setting in tmpgenc and you should 3 good quality episodes to a dvd. if you have the time a vbr setting @3000kbps will allow you to keep good quality and get 4 episodes on 1 disk!

good luck

[djbenz]

Use the guides here :

Convert to DVD : https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencdvd.htm

Author to DVD : http://www.dvd2dvdr.com

or here http://clik.to/divx2dvdr

Thay all contain information which should be helpful to you.

DJ