AVI to Home made DVD

[Nessmaster]

Ok. I have a bunch of small 15mb, 30sec avi files. Now I want to get all these files and convert so I can then use them to author a DVD. Now, the way I know right now is to convert them all into mpg and then go to DVD authoring from there. Is there some other way? If there isn't, and what I mentioned above is the only way, then what toosl would you recommend? So far I have only used TMPEG Studios to this type of thing, and I am not too good at it. I don't understand most of the options I can use to encode, and usually my outputs end up with bad quality both sound and video. Any help apreciated

[Soopafresh]

Try VSO DivxtoDVD

[daamon]

Hi Nessmaster,

The only wake to make home made DVDs is as you suspect:

Source file (your AVIs in this case) -> MPEG2 -> Author to DVD files -> Burn

I use TMPGEnc and get good results - but my AVIs are DV AVI (high quality AVI). I follow this guide:

www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=303#303

...it'll be good for you in explaining the settings.

Use GSpot (beta v2.52) to find out what type of AVIs you have - the quality of the source files is a factor in the end quality.

Post details (both audio and video) here so people can see what your source files are and then comment.

There's more I could tell you, but the above is plenty to start with.

[Nessmaster]

Hey, thanks alot guys. I got the Gspot info from one of the AVI files.

Size: 17.6 MB (or 18,062 KB or 18,495,706 bytes)

Video

Codec: 4CC - mjpg
Name: Motion JPEG including Huffman Tables
Type: AVI
IMRR: n.s.
I/L: Not supported.
Runtime: 00:00:30 (300 fr)
x:y : 40x480 (1.33:1) [=4:3]
Bitrate: 4842 kb/s
FPS: 10.000
Qf: 1.576 bits/pixel

Audio

Name: PCM Audio
BitRate: 88 kb/s, monophonic
Fs: 11024 Hz

Thats what I got from Gspot. I have VSO DivxtoDVD installed, but I guess what I am looking for is an easy way to encode a ton of these small avi files. Thanks for the guide, will check it out

[guns1inger]

You can open as many files as you like in DivxtoDVD. It will convert them all, making each a seperate title.

[Nessmaster]

You can open as many files as you like in DivxtoDVD. It will convert them all, making each a seperate title.

Hmm.... I never knew it could do that. Thanks for the info, I'll try it

[Nessmaster]

I was wondering what tool to use for converting the audio in an avi to the formate a DVD uses? Cause I got the video conversion part, but the audio is kinda crappy, and I read that guide that told me to use a seperate tool for audio....

[DarrellS]

I did some experimenting because I wasn't sure that a 10fps AVI would convert correctly to DVD with VSO DivXToDVD and found out that it will.

What I did find out though is that the quality from an M-JPEG conversion looks pretty bad so the way that I discovered to fix both the video quality and mono audio is to open the files in VirtualDub, choose the Deinterlace filter > Blend Frames under Video (choosing Xvid compression with 2000 bitrate which will cut the file size of your VOBs in half) and Audio > Conversion > 48Hz x 16bit Stereo and save the new AVI and then convert to DVD.

You didn't say whether these 30 second clips were part of a whole or not. If they are, you can append them all together with VirtualDub.

If they're not, you could use job control and the settings above to batch convert all the clips and then convert to DVD with VSO DivXToDVD.

Here are screenshots from the Test VOBs in PowerDVD.

M-JPEG/Mono to DVD


M-JPEG/Mono to XviD/Stereo to DVD

[daamon]

I was wondering what tool to use for converting the audio in an avi to the formate a DVD uses?

ffmpeggui - Converts to AC3 (which is globally acceptable) or MP2 (which is for PAL regions only). Both are stereo (2.0). Use a bitrate not lower than 192 and any more than 256 is a waste. They are comparable with each other at the same bitrates.

If you're encoding using TMPGEnc, you can use toolame as a plugin and TMPGEnc will use that to encode to MP2 audio instead of it's own built-in one.

[DarrellS]

I wouldn't expect to get the audio much better in quality. Looks like the files you have were captured to get a pretty small file size. Expecting to turn AM radio mono into CD/DVD quality stereo is a bit of a stretch.

You could try editing with a stand alone audio editing program to try and improve the quality. Maybe increasing the volume and filtering out some of the noise.

As mentioned above, the DivXToDVD program that you are using will convert any stereo audio format in your movie files to DVD compatible Stereo AC3.