AVI to DVD

[icemanatvcd]

I have tried winavividoeconvertor, convertXtodvd among others. Not happy with the results. The end results was that frames were jerky, audio out of synch etc.

What is the best software to convert AVI to DVD?

Many thanks in advance.

[Baldrick]

what is your source video???

downloaded crappy video often cause jerky playback, sync problems.


the "best" mpeg converters are cce basic, procoder basic, quenc, hc, tmpgenc, mainconcept mpeg encoder.

[TimBooth4Eva]

There are several decent progs about but I always recommend DVD Santa

[icemanatvcd]

width 640 pixels
Height 448 pixels
Video compression xvid
data 196 kbs

It is animation movie, spiderman from 1967 which kids like and I burn to a DVD as you can not buy this sort of stuff anymore.

Movie seems fine on a PC but jerky on a televisions set.

Meanwhile I will try DVD Santa.

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

What was the framerate of the video ?

[icemanatvcd]

29 frames per second

[guns1inger]

If it 29 even, then convertXtoDVD will be adding the extra .976 frames per second to get you up to NTSC framerate - you will see this in the log at the end of the encode "n extra frames were created". These will be duplicates of existing frames, and cause the jerkiness. PCs can playback any arbitrary framerate, and if there are enough frames per second, the results will be smooth. TVs and DVD are restricted to TV format framerates, so if your source framerate doesn't conform, extra frames will be created.

Basically it comes back to Baldrick's sage statement

downloaded crappy video often cause jerky playback

[icemanatvcd]

I tried another avi file. I tried VSO ConvetXtoDVD and Winavi Video Converter.

Winavi Video Converter gave same jerky results.

VSO converXtoDVD gave satisfactory results, nor jerkiness. Only one problem though, green block for a fraction of second in actions scenes. Is there is fix for this?

What other apps can I try? I am giving dvdsanta a try tonight.

[guns1inger]

green blocks are usually a sign of corruption in the source file.

[icemanatvcd]

I have noticed the same blocks with three different source files. All corrupt? Unlikely. I guess I can not get perfect results.

[guns1inger]

Blocks when playing back from the HDD or the burned disc ?

I am always impressed by the faith people have in the quality of downloaded avi files created by someone with probably as little knowledge as themselves. I approach every avi on the basis that is has been created by people of dubious skill, using software of dubious origin, and downloaded across the internet - an incredibly unreliable and uncontrolled method of travel. That it is watchable is a minor miracle.

[icemanatvcd]

Burned discs. I have tried different two different discs, all rewriteables.

[guns1inger]

If they play back without problem from the HDD then it isn't the encoder any more, it is either the media, the burning process, or your player and the media not getting on nicely. Don't waste you time with DVD Santa until you have confirmed this (personally, I wouldn't waste my time with it, period)

[icemanatvcd]

I had also tried DVD-R. I am certain it is not the burner as I don't have problems with my normal DVD to DVD burns. Only with this app on fast actions scenes for a split second only.