A burning issue

[IPOLY]

Yes of course, I have read all I can about burning a DVD.

Yes,I have gathered a lot of tools. Paid for a bunch of them as well. TMPG, Virtualdub, Avi this and that and so on.

I had spent a lot of time burning VCD and SuperVCD and DVD and so on. All taking a Lot of effort and time. And my question remains...

When I have a movie consisting of 2 AVI files and I want to burn a working DVD - what do I do? TMPG? AvitoDVD? What is the easiest?

I've seen a lot of Newbie questions on this. And a lot of savvy answers "read it all and get all the tools and make up your own mind."

That's not what I'm looking for. My question is - what do YOU do when you encounter an aVI file or in this case, two. And want to burn it to DVD? ncode for hours? ULEAD? (Worthless.) Virtualdub to convert the Wav to 41000 then TMPG to author, then nero to burn? How do you join the two before burning?

I understand there is no ONE single solution to this. I'm asking savvy people, what they do! They will differ. They may disagree, on the best and fastest solution. And I may get no answer on this at all.

But try I must.

Please describe the tools that are best suited to burn a multiple AVI file to DVD?

Many thanks for your time.

[ZippyP.]

Tmpgenc to make an M2V video file, FFMpeggui to make an AC3 audio file, TMPGEnc DVD to author and burn. Join the movie parts (if necessary) when you author by adding them to the same track.

[guns1inger]

If you are going to use virtualdub to filter or alter the video, frameserve it to your encoder, don't risk quality issues by re-encoding multiple times.

To be honest, if you had read as much as you say you have then you would not have wasted so much money on tools, and would have a much better grasp of the process for what is a relative simply task.

[IPOLY]

If you are going to use virtualdub to filter or alter the video, frameserve it to your encoder, don't risk quality issues by re-encoding multiple times.

To be honest, if you had read as much as you say you have then you would not have wasted so much money on tools, and would have a much better grasp of the process for what is a relative simply task.

I did say NEWBIE. Much as I read up on this and much as I had tried different avenues. Until I find what is the best way I see, I will be smart enough to ask questions. Not proud and stupid not to.

Simple, perhaps. Time consuming is the issue, and cutting out steps. When I add tracks of two AVI files to ULEAD DVD maker for instance, I get 8 hours of encoding and end up with a file that does not have sound. So I piss and moan.

Tmpg will not encode the AVI because of the sound. So I had read to send it out in WAV with Full Processing to 41000 from Virtualdub then encode in TNPG, then burn with TMPG DVD or Nero. Seems a lot of steps. Like I mentioned, ULEAD seems easy, but I had not been able to produce a good DVD with it with sound included.

But thank you for the input. I'll keep pounding it. I realize I'm missing something, so I post

[Krispy Kritter]

First, dvd audio spec is 48000, NOT 41000 like you have stated.

I for one don't waste the time with conversion. I have a standalone that can read avi files, so I just burn multiple files to a DVD and play them. Saves time and dvd's.

As you already found out, there are many ways to achieve the final product. It is mostly a matter of trial and error until you find a method that works for you.

For a simple solution, try avi2dvd : http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html

[IPOLY]

Thanks for the reply.

What I meant was, that TMPG never had encoded an AVI to DVD with sound for me, until I had sent a separate WAV file out Full Processed to 41000 from Virtualdub, and used IT as the sound source. Then I get a correct DVD with sound. I'm trying to understand it all. So as you say, I keep trying different methods.

I'd just love to have a program into which I drop 2 or more AVI files in sequence, and tell it to make a DVD.

Better yet. 2 AVI files, 3 MPG files, 12 WMV files and make a DVD out of it with each having a menu icon. Someday I'll do this. (I know a lot of people are laughing now. So be it It's the price a newbie pays for Kohlinaar!)