Idea for divx to DVD-- what have you done?

[hotch]

I've got a collecction (14 gigs) of divXes of the simpsons (woohoo, every episode ever!) And I'm trying to figure out how to get them on DVD-- hopefully getting a full season on each disk (they are already reasonably low quality, but it doesn't make them less funny). (And yes, I am buying them on DVD as they come out, but it's gunna be another 13 years!)

My idea: Play them back in VLC, with the "Stream to File" option set-- this should get me some mpegs

Any other ideas?

[AntnyMD]

If you're going to go the conversion route, and if the DivX files are low quality anyway, just make DVD-compliant MPEG-1 files of them at VCD bitrate and resolution (but with 48kHz audio instead of 44.1kHz). Those can be authored as a DVD no problem ... You should be able to cram at least six hours of material onto a DVD. Getting a whole season onto one DVD? Shoot for two discs per season. DVD's are big, but not that big.

[Thargok]

If set up as a MPEG-1 with 6 hours you can fit 18 episodes onto a DVD

20 min. an episode (no commercials)

[hotch]

Hmmm-- I've been trying to convert my episodes of "Family Guy" (all in mpeg 1), and ifogen won't recognize the mpegs without demuxing and remuxing with ffmpeg, and when I do that, my audio gets about 5 seconds off sync. Any Ideas?

[galactica]

Strange, ive done lots of with mpeg2 and never had a sync error with just demux then remux.

you doing anything to the audio file?
Did you take the origional mpeg1 and open it with the standard encoding browse, unclick encode video and change codex to Passthough ffmpeg and set the audio to encode and per the settings of dvd (48khz and 224k/sec) .mp2?

then use the remux tool as MUX DVD.

odd if you are, ive never had a problem yet with sync in just a simple demux remux.