Burning an .AVI to a DVD

[geppis]

I Have an .AVI file , that sits at about 600 megabytes.
My dvd burner was bundled with ulead dvd software and when i went to mount the dvd with the.avi i file , it shows that after conversion to dvd format , the file will be 6 gig + and thats too big for a regular DVD.

What do i do ??
Is there anyway that i can convert the avi to dvd video format at a smaller size , and burn it with another program ????

Any Help Greatly Appriciated
Geppis

[burdo]

try here.
https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencdvd.htm

[Duchess]

I get that if the AVI file has audio encoded with AC3 and I found the only way around it was to translate the AC3 to WAV format and then encode into MPEG.

You could use something like AVI2WAV or PX3'S AC3 to WAV to generate the audio then use something like TMPGEnc to merge the video from the AVI file and the audio into an MPEG file.

[geppis]

Burdo : After converting to mpeg2 via tmpegnc - what do i use to burn it , because if i load those files into Ulead - it still thinks it needs conversion, and to burn in nero , i need to have .vob files. And will the conversion using tmp be just as large ???

Any suggestions ???

Cheers
Geppis

[bugster]

geppis, I think you need to do some reading and learning around the general area of .avi to dvd conversion. Try starting here. Once you have mastered converting avi to DVD compliant mpegs you need to learn about authoring so start that part of your education here.

When you hit problems (and I will be very surprised if you don't!) come back and ask sepecific questions that people can help you with.

[Hardcoreruss]

Convert with tmpgenc
Author with tmpgenc dvd author
Burn with nero

This is the easiest method but you may need some additional programs such as virtualdub chucked in there.

As bugster says read the guides and you won't fail, when you do slip up post back

[bottle-necked]

An AVI file that's 600MB and Ulead reencodes to over 6GB looks like a DivX movie file to me. It's probably over 2 hours long and it probably has AC3 audio. In Ulead, 'right click' that AVI file then choose 'Properties'. A box will open telling you that information.

Ulead has the ability to do what you're wanting but you must set the program up properly.

Start Ulead, inport your AVI file then drag it onto the timeline. Click 'Share' then click 'Create Video File' then 'Custom' then 'Options' then click the 'Compression' tab, then select "NTSC DVD" from the drop down list box. Slide the quality control to 100%, change the Audio Format to "MPEG" and probably select 224k and 48,000hz.

Now set the Video Data Rate to Variable and to {your calculated bitrate}. If the movie is exactly 2 hours then you'll need somewhere around 4,000k (give or take a few hundred MBs). Then 'OK' all the way back to the first box, type in a name for your movie then encode. A 2 hour movie will take in excess of 2 hours to encode. When it's done you will have a NTSC DVD Compliant MPEG2 movie that should fit on a DVD. Use your favorite DVD authorizing program to finish up this project.

Ulead can author your DVD, but I would create the movie file manually first then check the filesize. To create the finished DVD just restart Ulead, drag your new converted movie onto the timeline then go through the DVD Creation process with that file. You know it will fit.

I can't explain it any simpler than that.

Problems you might encounter with this method? Aspect Ratios. Ulead V7 has a big problem with anything except 4:3

[BobK]

A simple solution that I've used when I wound up with DVD files to big to put on disk- author the DVD with whatever you want and make the DVD on your hard drive, then use DVDShrink to make it small enough to burn on a DVD.

I do this all the time after authoring a DVD with TMPGEnc and it works fine. I did it with one other program (don't remember which one) and DVDShrink 3.0beta5 wouldn't open the DVD on the hard drive, but DVDShrink 2.3 worked.

[Devanshu]

1. Extract the audio with vdub and convert to wav

2. Convert w/ tmpgenc

3. Burn in nero

Hope that helps

[bottle-necked]

http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html

This looks like a pretty good guide for TMPGenc Plus for converting that AVI to NTSC DVD. I tried running one of my Divx clips through with his directions and it worked ok. Quality level was real good.

Hope this helps ya.