Need Good Tools to create DVD

[coody]

I have tried the DVD flick and Super but both are not ideal. The former is too slow. The latter is unable to convert the video to the standard DVD folder.

Do you know other tools can efficiently and effectively convert the flash video into the standard DVD format so that it can be burned into the DVD disc?

[Baldrick]

convertxtodvd. not free though.

[AlanHK]

Do you know other tools can efficiently and effectively convert the flash video into the standard DVD format so that it can be burned into the DVD disc?

Avisynth -> HCEnc -> GfD

Free, very simple and efficient, if you have the mindset for scripting.

[coody]

Do you know other tools can efficiently and effectively convert the flash video into the standard DVD format so that it can be burned into the DVD disc?

Avisynth -> HCEnc -> GfD

Free, very simple and efficient, if you have the mindset for scripting.

The Antivirus has detected the Avisynth malicious. Did you have any problems by downloading this file? I have tried to download it from the direct link.

[guns1inger]

What anti-virus ?
Where did you try to download avisynth from ?

AVStoDVD is also worth looking at if you are new to scripting. It uses Avisynth, HCEnc and Muxman, but puts an interface on it all to simplify it somewhat. You can use it to create just the elementary video streams, ready for authoring, or you can produce an authored disc.

[AlanHK]

The Antivirus has detected the Avisynth malicious. Did you have any problems by downloading this file? I have tried to download it from the direct link.

You should end up downloading from Sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2/files/
100% safe.

[geneaum]

I've tried most of the tools mentioned on this thread but have settled on DeVeDe - works very well, and is free.

[coody]

I've tried most of the tools mentioned on this thread but have settled on DeVeDe - works very well, and is free.

The DeVeDe downloading direct link has problems. The user is prompted to select the program to open it after downloading. The Download (mirror) works, however.

My pc Security scan still found the Avisynth 2.5 is malicious after downloading. The user is alerted the Malicous software can harm your computer or violate your privacy.

[Ai Haibara]

Sounds like you may be getting the standard warning that security suites may give when you download an .exe file. If you're in doubt, though, you can upload the file to www.virustotal.com, which will scan it with multiple virus scan programs, and may help determine whether or not you're getting a false-positive detection.

I've never had a scanner (anti-virus/spyware/malware) complain about AVISynth, though. Are you sure your scanner software and definitions are up-to-date?

[guns1inger]

This is why I stopped using free scanners (AVG/Avast etc) - false positives seem to have become the norm, rather than the exception.

[coody]

I tested the DeveDe. It is not reliable. It freezes in the stage of the Creating DVD tree structure when I convert the flash video into the DVD. The most reliable converting tool is the DVD Flick. But, it is too slow. The other tools are dependent ones. Several software have to work together. Not desirable

[Ai Haibara]

Did you try AVS2DVD, as guns1inger suggested?

Yes, most of these converters are a few or more programs tied together underneath a GUI (SUPER included). That doesn't make them bad, though. Personally, I'd rather depend on converters that use a number of the established programs, rather than trying to do everything all in one single program, without any external programs.

[guns1inger]

The best method is to use the right tool for each stage of the job. This might mean that to correctly encode an AVI file you need to create an avisynth script, load it into an encoder to produce the video output, encode the audio separately, then use an authoring tool to create the final disc. That is 5 different tools at least (not including all the tools normally used for asset creation before authoring etc). AVStoDVD uses all of these tools, and puts a front end on them so you don't need to know how each of them works. And it does a great job. DVD Flick is similar - it is a front end to ffmpeg, and uses a number of other components as well.

You have not filled in your computer details, but I suspect you either have a slow machine, or a badly built one.

The only other solution I can suggest for you goes back to the second post from Baldrick - ConvertXtoDVD. It is not free, but it is fast, self-contained, and produces passable quality output.

But if you are having issues with everything you try to use, you are either doing something very wrong, or your system is fubar. Too many of us use these tools all the time without these sorts of issues, so the problems are not inherent in the software.

[coody]

Did you try AVS2DVD, as guns1inger suggested?

Yes, most of these converters are a few or more programs tied together underneath a GUI (SUPER included). That doesn't make them bad, though. Personally, I'd rather depend on converters that use a number of the established programs, rather than trying to do everything all in one single program, without any external programs.

Yes, I tried the AVS2DVD. It cannot open certain .FLV file. The error message is Error 62, "Input past end of file." By the way, which downloading link is the correct one, Installer Package - hosted @ SourceForge , NoInstall Package - hosted @ SourceForge or Source Files - hosted @ SourceForge ?

[guns1inger]

Input past end of file usually means that the file index is screwed. This could cause you issues in other encoders as well, including producing files that are far larger than the source. It might also be an ffdshow issue.

If you download the installer version you get an exe that runs like a regular installer. If you download the non installer version you get a zip file that you unpack manually to where you want it to go. You don't need the source files unless you are programmer who wants to see how it works, or to modify it in some way.

If you are working with flv, which is probably the worst format after RMVB for conversion, I would use AVI Demux and output the results to either a program or elementary streams, then author with something like DVD Styler.

[_MrC_]

Yes, I tried the AVS2DVD. It cannot open certain .FLV file. The error message is Error 62, "Input past end of file."

Mmmh. sounds like you have added the flv file using the 'Open project' button, don't you? You have to use 'Add Title' button or drag&drop your clips in the title frame.

Moreover, to properly decode and convert flv files, you have to install flvsplitter.



Bye