AVI to DVD quality

[biggsy68]

I have just recently started to burn DVDs and I have a few AVI files that have been burned onto DVD. The quality of these DVDs is ok, but not brilliant. The picture can become blocky at times. Is there a program that will allow me to convert the AVI files to a better quality? At the moment I am using Nerovision Express but also have Ulead Video Studio 7 installed.

[Cobra]

You could give TMPGEnc a shot - it's a very high quality encoder.

Is your source of a high standard too? Your encoded file cannot be higher quality than the source.

This is a guide you may find useful:

http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides.php?category=othertodvd&name=tmpegenc

There are many more over on the left-hand side under "Convert".

Hope this helps your encoding,

Cobra

[Baldrick]

and remember garbage in garbage out.

[DVD_Ripper]

and sometimes, depending on your MPEG encoder, high quality in, garbage out.

[Suntan]

Or in the case of government sponsered bioenergy programs, $500 worth of refined gargbage in $20 worth of energy out. 8)

-Suntan

[biggsy68]

Ok I used the TMPGenc and left it overnight to encode an AVI file. When it had finished the file was 2.60GB in size. I tried to burn it onto disc using Nero Visionexpress 2 but it actually showed the file size as being over 8.0GB in size! So of course it wouldn't burn. Are there any tutorials I can download which will help me use this program? Thanks in advance.

[guns1inger]

Try these for starters

https://www.videohelp.com/convert#4;10

I use mainconcept and Vegas when working with an avi source. I strip the audio out to a wav file using virtualdub, then load the video into Vegas. I delete the audio track from the video, and load in the stripped out wav file in its place. This resolves audio sync issues. I then save the audio out as 2 channel AC-3. I then save the video out as DVD compliant 2-pass VBR.

Finally, I master the disc using DVD Lab, and burn using Nero. Sounds complicated, but the whole thing can be done in a couple of hours, most of which is the encoding to mpeg-2 (on my system this is pretty much real-time)

[biggsy68]

Had a look at all the info and this is gonna take some understanding, I'm a total noob at this!

I burnt a dvd last night using nerovision and the sound quality was set to Dolby Digital (AC-3) 2.0 but on one dvd player there is no sound, anyone know why? Yet if I put it on the other dvd player there is sound. Anyone know why this is?

[chobo321321]

What program did you use to convert the audio to ac3?, or was it already in ac3 format? You could try using a program called ac3fix, and running it hrough there. The program is supposed to fix corrupted, and non compliant ac3 files.

[Anarchist2204]

use tmpeng express, import the divx avi, make sure the audio bitrate is set to the 320 one, the dvd out put is 2.5 gig min, the search bit is set to high or very high res, 720x480 or fior a quicker result the 3?? x2?? res if the dvd is pal, make sure if the framrate is 30fps you set dvd to ntsc and 27fps pal or the result will be jerky, sorry this is not more detailed im at work...

[SoCalMK]

I used to burn avi's into dvd's all the time but wasn't satisfied with the quality. Instead, what I decided to do was to buy a dvd player that plays mpeg and avi iso's. I often find that the quality is better and it saves a lot of time.

[Anarchist2204]

yeah but the video conversion is more universal how many home players do you know that natively play divx/mpeg4 3.x and above!!!! winavi, flask are in no comparrison to the quality that tmpeng express produces at the highest setting is almost lossless, i have done over 20 dvd's with 2 films on converted from divx to dvd, and you cant tell they have been converted, as long as fast motion films i.e paycheck are done at the highest motion search setting with error correction.... 10bit,

[SoCalMK]

I agree that most players cannot play .mpg and .avi files, but I think that will change over time and already is. You can also get a video card with a TV out and hook it up to your television and view it through Windows Media Player. Don't get me wrong; I love taking on projects to convert .avi files to DVD in great quality and create my own custom menus, etc. But if I did that w/ all of the .avi and .mpg files I had I wouldn't have time for anything else. I was merely pointing the original poster in this direction because having a DVD player that plays these raw formats is very convenient and time friendly. The model that I currently use is the Philips DVP 632 (or 642) and it only costs $60 and can be picked up at most Target stores in North America.

[kengrif]

Try DVDsanta

1 click and it converts avi to dvd. Pretty impressive quality too!!!!!!!!

My Fav prog so far. Have tryed alot of others too!!!

http://dvdsanta.com/

let me know how it went!!!

[ZippyP.]

When it had finished the file was 2.60GB in size. I tried to burn it onto disc using Nero Visionexpress 2 but it actually showed the file size as being over 8.0GB in size!

Because it's trying to re-encode it. You have to author and burn it, not re-encode. Try a different program to author like TMPGEnc DVD Author.