RAD avi to dvd? How to do this (Gspot image tells me what)?

[Denvers Dawgs]

I have the movie Rad in avi form and want it on a compliant dvd. Here is what Gspot tells me about the avi


1. what does Gspot tell me (how does it help me?)
2. How can I get this to play in a standalone dvd player?

[redwudz]

Looks like the Microsoft MP42 codec, similar to DIVX, I believe. You can do a Google search for the codec. You would have to convert it to compliant MPEG-2 for DVD use.

[celtic_druid]

Looks like a nasty MS MPEG4 VCD re-encode to me. Personally I would just delete it.

ffdshow supports MS MPEG4 decoding, so you can use that instead if you want.

[Denvers Dawgs]

why would you delete it? Is it going to be painful to try to convert to a dvd?

[celtic_druid]

Probably not but it has 40k 22Khz audio and is only 352x240 which if it really is a VCD re-encode would mean that the aspect is wrong. The VCD would have been 4:3 but the avi is 1:1 so it should have been resized. Wouldn't be suprised if it had a TMD watermark in the corner or similar either.

Just not worth converting. At least to me. Like I said, I would delete it, doesn't necessarily mean that you should.

[Denvers Dawgs]

The thing is that it has never been put on dvd, so this is the only version I have. It is crappy vhs type quality to watch, but something is better than none at all. How can I covert it to be a compliant dvd?