sigh. this is what i want

[android6011]

I have about 10 DivX/Xvid videos. They range in size from 600-700mb. I want to create a DVD with a menu that lets me pick which video i want to watch. I dont mind converting, however I do mind long conversion times. My DVD player plays the DivX and Xvid movies already. I just want to make a better looking DVD, instead of just a list of videos sitting on my DVD player's default menu. Thanks

oh ya, I know I'm not fitting all 10 on 1 DVD, I just want at least 4 videos per DVD. Also, I want to keep the quality they are at. I want NO quality loss.

[Baldrick]

If you are gonna reconvert you will lose video quality.

I would use tmpgenc or mainconcept mpeg encoder and convert each episode to dvd mpeg and author with tmpgenc dvd author or dvd-lab.

Or use an all-in-one tool like divxtodvd to convert a dvd without menus and then import the dvd in tmpgenc dvd author to make the menus.

Or wait for divx dvd players with menu support.

[steveryan]

How long are the video files? If they are movies (90 mins ish) then you've not got a hope of putting 4 on a disc without losing quality. If you still want to convert then I suggest you read a few guides on this 'site, there's loads of AVI to DVD guides. Then have a look at the authoring guides, i'd use TDA.

Edit - whilst I was thinking Balders was typing

[mats.hogberg]

Even with one full length 1.5-2 hrs DivX to a (single layer) DVD, quality will suffer, let alone 4 or more on a DVD, be it single or dual layer!

/Mats

[android6011]

without menu's ive fit 5 videos on one DVD. that are around 700mb, and granted the quality that way is fine for me. Im just saying no quality loss because I dont want horrible quality, because right now the quality isnt perfect but its good enough.

[mats.hogberg]

What you don't see, is that you have use about 4x AVI bitrate (meaning 4x as big files) to maintain quality when you encode to DVD video mpg.

/Mats

[android6011]

oh, i see what your saying, i thought you were saying before that 4 DivX files couldn't even fit.

[spectroelectro]

This question constantly comes up but the brutal reality remains that it takes huge amounts of conversion time and effort to turn a divx/svid video into a playable mpeg-2 DVD. The divx and DVD formats differ in every possible way. Different frame size, different encoding method, different audio track format, different audio sample rate.

To do a good solid job of converting a single 45-minute TV in a good divx encode to an equal-quality playable mpeg-2 file takes about 9 hours of video processing on a P4 2.4 Ghz computer. The video must be resized, vdub filtered to remove the more offensive divx compression artifacts (can't remove 'em all), the audio must be sample-rate-converted... It's a mess.

Truthfully, your best bet is just to burn the 700 meg files onto individual CD-Rs. Label each CD-R with a sharpie. Pop it in your divx player, and voila. There you are. That's by far the simplest way to go.