Burning DVD Video

[benprj]

Hey.
I was wondering if anyone has any good tips for me.
Basically, i want to know how to improve the quality of my dvds when i burn them..
I find a lot of the time that the video and sounds dont sync once burned, but do on the pc,
that there can be a lot of freezes.

At the minute i am using Bulkpaq DVD+R 16x and most dvds i burn are about 750mb,
i burn as slowly as i can, usualy 4x or sometimes i can 2x.
i use nero to burn as a video file.

is there a better disc i can use? or is thereanything i can do with the pc to get better burning results?
Ive just started to turn off screensaver to see if makes a difference but havnt checked yet, and i dont use the pc when burning.

If you can help please shout...
Many thanks.
Ben

[bourboner]

What format are you burning? Sounds like Nero is converting to DVD format before burning, and that's where you are losing the sync perhaps?

[Baldrick]

Freezes could be because of crappy dvd media, try instead verbatim media, www.nomorecoasters.com www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia. And sync problems are probably because of the converter so try different converters like convertxtodvd, dvd flick.

[benprj]

Most are AVI Format, if thats what you mean?
So asking to burn an AVI or Mpeg strait to disc with nero not clever idea?
what can i do before hand to help that?
cos it is mainly the sound sync that pisses me off the most.
cheers.

[bourboner]

Well, I wouldn't use Nero to convert my video files to DVD format. Try what Baldrick said, ConvertXtoDVD - this costs a small price, but is very good at what it does. Or try one of the quality freebies like DVDFlick, WinFF, FAVC, DVDforger, Avidemux etc... in fact there are quite a few good free converters now heh! Sniff around!

And yeah, use good-quality blank DVD-R's! Verbatims & Taiyo Yudens are always highly recommended around here, it seems.

[mats.hogberg]

Even better: Get a player that plays AVI files. No conversion, no problems. Costs about the same as commercial AVItoDVD converter offerings.

/Mats