What's the best way to convert XviD to fit on a DVD+R?

[Pring4]

I've got a 700 meg XviD file, and I want to extract the video/audio and put it on a DVD+R. I'm not a complete newbie, I know that my media/drive/dvd player all work, but I was just wondering what the best format to burn the converted file would be. And depending on that format, what the best way to do that is.

Thanks a lot.

[bugster]

Lets assume, just for arguments sake, that you what you actually want is something that will play in a standalone DVD player. Lets also assume that the player in question is not one of the few that play divx/xvid or one that will play raw mpegs. Therefore you only have one choice. You need to convert the xvid to DVD-Video format.

In order to do this you need to encode it to DVD compliant mpeg-2, author it to DVD-Video format and then burn the disc.

There is no *BEST* way for any of these activities. If there were forums like this would not be needed.

For the conversion steps, start reading here .

For the authoring step, this is a good starting point.


Choose guides that look appropriate and that use either tools you have access to or are freeware/shareware/trialware. When you run into problems feel free to come back and ask more questions.

BTW, I reccomend TmpGenc plus for encoding and DVD-Lab or Tmpgenc DVD Author for authoring.


BTW, if any of my assumptions are wrong, then forget everything else I have just posted.

[Pring4]

Great! Thanks a lot

[Pring4]

This is the wierdest thing - I had at one point been able to open my XviD file in TMPGEnc, but now it won't open anymore! It says that it's either unsuported or an unknown file. I have the newest XviD codec installed, so I don't know why it's doing this - especially when it was working before. I tried other programs, too, and they can't recognize it either.

[bugster]

Try using the fourcc changer and change xvid to divx.

Do it on a copy though!!

[jester1x]

Try raising the priority of the directshow filter. I had the same problem and this "cured" it. TMPGEnc now recognizes XviD files.

[reapur]

I also wanted to do what pring4 did.
My biggest problem is how do I find out what kind of video file I have. Since I have all the codecs, I can't figure if this .AVI file I have is a straight avi, or divx or xvid or whatever.
What can I to query a file on what is?

Cheers

[jester1x]

Use this tool called Gspot. It should give you the information you need.

[reapur]

Thanks Jester.
Gspot is perfect for my needs, in more ways than one

Cheers