putting an mp4 movie on to a DVD.

[patrick_jimmy]

i have a movie that i can only play with vlc media player. I am trying to put it on to a DVD so i can play it on my home DVD Player. So far i am struggling with this.

Is there any one who knows how to do this?

[guns1inger]

ConvertXtoDVD or FAVC will be able to do it. You may need the Haali Media Splitter for FAVC, or FFDShow.

[patrick_jimmy]

thankyou, i'll try that now and i will let you know how it goes.

[patrick_jimmy]

what i did was:

-opened ConvertXtoDVD.
-i clicked on add video file and then opened my file.
-i than clicked convert. (it says 3 hours remaining).

Is this burning onto my blank DVD disc now?

[mats.hogberg]

Is this burning onto my blank DVD disc now?

No, it's reencoding your mp4 video into a DVD compliant format. The actual burning process should be around 20 minutes or less (depending on your DVD writers specs) once the video and audio has been reencoded and authored.

/Mats

[patrick_jimmy]

thanks for the info.

[KneeRow]

me too, i am gonna need to do that too shortly.

[guns1inger]

I have just tried an .mp4 using FAVC and the Haali Splitter and although it works, and the image quality is very good, the opening few seconds flicker gray. This settles down after about 20 seconds and all is good after than, but it is annoying. It does the same thing with some H.264 MKV files.

[patrick_jimmy]

I have done what you said. It played perfectly on the computer but
my home DVD player can't read the disc. Why did this happen and is there a way to fix it?

[guns1inger]

How did you test it on the computer ?
How did you burn it to disc ?
Does the disc play in the computer ?
Does it play on other players ?
What media did you use ?
If you open the disc in Windows Explorer, what do you see ?

[KneeRow]

Allok sucks, the last 7 mins of my 42:30 min AVI were completely out sync
go figgur

PS
Did I say that it was a MP4 file that i tried to convert to AVI? Dunno if that matters or not. I ended up with with a file that had video of 42:30 and audio 41:05 long. The audio length was what was reported to the system. all players, (VLC, BSplayer, Vdub etc) WinExplorer, my tooltips etc. all said it was 42.30

Also, Allok takes about 10 percent longer than playtime to convert.

However Allok batch-converted the 230 MOVs of my lonelygirl15 collection without much fuss.

[jk318]

VLC can transcode about any video that it can play fairly quickly, although it may result in a lower quality of video.

1. Click File >> Open File
2. Choose the file to convert
3. Check Stream/Save
4. Click Settings
5. Check File
6. Choose MPEG PS
7. Check Video codec and choose mp2v
8. Check Audio codec and choose mpga
9. Choose bitrates close to the bitrates of the original video
10. Click OK

[mats.hogberg]

9. Choose bitrates close to the bitrates of the original video

Fine up to this point. Source file bitrate and dest file bitrate are in no way related.
Take a DivX with AC3 audio, total 1000 kbps, 448 kbps AC3 audio, 552 kbps video. An mpg video at that bitrate will be completely unwatchable. Of course depending on resolution and other parameters, but no less than 4000 kbps m2v would be my recommendation.

/Mats