What is the best way for me to start burning movies?

[Penny B.]

Aight I've been downloading a couple of movies....just wondering what is the best way for me to start burning them...I got Nero and I use to just burn it as a VCD and let Nero encode it for me since it was an AVI movie...but I would always have to put something Mpeg in front of the AVI movie to burn it otherwise cuz when I dropped an AVI file there it didn't encode for me unless I had something mpeg in front of it first to start encoding....I would also have to burn first half of movie on one cd-r then the next half of the movie on a second cd-r....Should I convert it first with something and burn it as a SVCD and so that it will burn on one disc and fit and everything on it...But I don't understand the Bin/Cue type shit...somebody help me out and let me know what's the easiest and best quality to play in a DVD that would be for me to use....thanks yall...

my aim name is "pennybanks512" ...if anybody wants to guide me through some shit it would be much appreciated...thanks..

[Innershield]

Try reading the guides first. They are a great help.

[Penny B.]

Guides only confuse me more......That's why I posted to get some opinions on what I should do..one-on-one...otherwise I would not have posted at all...anybody let me know what's up...break it down in English for me...cuz I'm not the greatest at cpu's...I'mma newbie.......

[Innershield]

I doubt anyone will take the time to walk you through every step of the way when the guides are there. They are not hard to understand, just go through them slowly and follow the steps. They work.

[Penny B.]

ok...thanks anyways...

[dominic01]

First I am a newbie too. Now, you said you have downloaded some movies. In AVI format, is that correct?

I dont understand "put MPEG before AVI". What is that?

General process is

1. capture or download AVI
2. Encode to required format (VCD/SVCD/DVD/...)
3. Author (may not required if your format is VCD or SVCD)
4. Burn
5. View (in TV or your PC)

Nero will encode your AVI in to VCD format without any problem. But to encode SVCD/DVD format you need a nero's MPEG-2/DVD plugin. Check in their website. If you want some other tools search it in the "tools" section.

Hope this helps

Dominic

[poopyhead]

NEVER EVER let nero do any encode/re-encode for you.... horrible job....really good for burning...but piss-poor at encoding

->VCD:

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

https://www.videohelp.com/panasonic.htm

https://www.videohelp.com/lsxvcd.htm

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencxvcd.htm

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/84759.php

->SVCD:

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencsvcd.htm

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/111846.php

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/119210.php

https://www.videohelp.com/lsxsvcd.htm

https://www.videohelp.com/avitovcdfoolproofusingcce/

[macleod]

1. www.dvd2svcd.org
2. Purchase TMPGENC, CCE, ,or procorder
3. acquire a guide that will walk you through the conversion of avi to mpg.

If you dont want to learn that, then keep letting nero encode your video. it'll look like crap, but at least you wont have to learn anything.

[Penny B.]

First I am a newbie too. Now, you said you have downloaded some movies. In AVI format, is that correct?

I dont understand "put MPEG before AVI". What is that?

General process is

1. capture or download AVI
2. Encode to required format (VCD/SVCD/DVD/...)
3. Author (may not required if your format is VCD or SVCD)
4. Burn
5. View (in TV or your PC)

Nero will encode your AVI in to VCD format without any problem. But to encode SVCD/DVD format you need a nero's MPEG-2/DVD plugin. Check in their website. If you want some other tools search it in the "tools" section.

Hope this helps

Dominic

Yes....that's what I do...but in Nero when I go to drag and drop the AVI movie or file it does not pop up that box that ask me do I want to re-encode, cancel, and etc?........so I burn the first half of the movie to a cd-r and it burns extremely fast and does not play in DVD player or whatnot.....it doesn't re-encode the AVI movie for me...that why I was saying sometimes I have to put something like a video or short mPEG in front of it to ask me if I want to re-encode otherwise it seems like most of the AVI shit that I try to burn in VCD never encodes it for me.....

[dominic01]

Before draging and droping what are you doing in Nero. Let us know step by step.

Dominic

[Penny B.]

I ain't doing shit in Nero......I open it up...follow lil' Wizard Cd's go to other formats...click on video cd......get my avi movie drag and drop it over...burn it....it burns extremely fast and does not play in anything cuz it ain't encoding I believe...that's about it I guess...

[poopyhead]

@Penny B.,

read the guides i linked earlier post...you need to do the converting yourself....

nero does a horrible job at converting/encoding .avi -> .mpg

just horrible quality...

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just take some time to read the guides thoroughly and ask SPECIFIC questions regarding any of the steps you don't understand. if you ask something in general (i.e. "help me do this"), that's not gonna work. this is what guides are for. you read it...if you don't understand something, ask, but nothing in general...no one has that much time to guide you step-by-step when the guides are there.

[Penny B.]

How long does it usually take to convert a whole movie from AVI to MPEG?

[yg1968]

It depends on how long the movie is. But usually between 5 and 10 hours with TMPGenc. For this reason, a lot of people do it overnight.

[rodonoghue]

It depends on how long the movie is.

I would say that it depends on how fast your processor is not the length of movie faster processors can do mpeg2 in realtime and mpeg1 in faster than realtime - so a 90 min movie will take 90 mins in mpeg2 and less in mpeg1

[FulciLives]

It depends on how long the movie is.

I would say that it depends on how fast your processor is not the length of movie faster processors can do mpeg2 in realtime and mpeg1 in faster than realtime - so a 90 min movie will take 90 mins in mpeg2 and less in mpeg1

MPEG-2 encoding is SLOW especially with TMPGEnc. I love TMPGEnc anyways because I've learned how to use it well and it really isn't that hard to learn whereas I find CCE to be a bit more difficult to use though many claim it is faster. I've played around a bit with the MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder and it can be FAST but the quality is not nearly as good as TMPGEnc or CCE.

If you have a BLAZING fast 3.0GHZ computer THEN you MIGHT be able to record close to real time with MainConcept but NO WAY with TMPGEnc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Penny B.]

wow 5 to 10 hours.......so using Nero to encode and burn for me at the same time won't be the best thang to do?....it would cut the time in half but Nero likes to bullshit with my AVI movies....do yall know any good vcd rooms and/or movie rooms on the mIRC scene that I should use.......I deleted all my Kazaa stuff because it too was a bunch of bullshit....thanks for the help everyone......

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[poopyhead]

do yall know any good vcd rooms and/or movie rooms on the mIRC scene that I should use.......I deleted all my Kazaa stuff because it too was a bunch of bullshit....thanks for the help everyone......

1) they're called channels, not rooms

2) once you're on a server, just type " /list " and it will list all the public channels by size (# of users) on that server.

3) not good to state you pirate movies

[Penny B.]

do yall know any good vcd rooms and/or movie rooms on the mIRC scene that I should use.......I deleted all my Kazaa stuff because it too was a bunch of bullshit....thanks for the help everyone......

1) they're called channels, not rooms

2) once you're on a server, just type " /list " and it will list all the public channels by size (# of users) on that server.

3) not good to state you pirate movies

Poppyhead you like to be a big bad ass via the internet and act as if you know all...stop being such a smart ass...and I'll state pirated movies if I want to....that's where yall get all your shit from anyways...otherwise there would not be any VCD help website....cuz folks wouldn't even be burning movies if it wasn't for the irc channels, warez, and etc.....but thanks for the help poppyhead when you are not trying to be a smartass all the time....but thanks..much appreciated...do your friends call you Spice Boy?

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[rodonoghue]

If you have a BLAZING fast 3.0GHZ computer THEN you MIGHT be able to record close to real time with MainConcept but NO WAY with TMPGEnc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

I would disagree, you can do it with tmpeg i use a p4 2.4 and it converts to mpeg2 using the dvd templates in more or less real time

[FulciLives]

If you have a BLAZING fast 3.0GHZ computer THEN you MIGHT be able to record close to real time with MainConcept but NO WAY with TMPGEnc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

I would disagree, you can do it with tmpeg i use a p4 2.4 and it converts to mpeg2 using the dvd templates in more or less real time

A friend of mine has a P4 2.4Ghz with 512MB and I used it twice to do PAL to NTSC conversions with TMPGEnc and both times it took around 17 hours. Of course encoding seems to take longer when doing PAL to NTSC conversions. I did once convert a nearly 2 hour clip (NTSC to NTSC) and it took around 6 to 6 1/2 hours. The source in both cases were D2V project files from RIPPED DVD source material. The PAL to NTSC used an AVS script the second NTSC to NTSC was straight D2V import with no filtering or any "strange" out-of-the ordinary settings.

I should point out that both times I used the 10-bit DC component precision setting and the highest (slowest) quality setting for the motion search precision.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
The computer has WinXP home and we left it alone (with nothing open including no internet connection) while doing the encoding.

[Conquest10]

that's where yall get all your shit from anyways...otherwise there would not be any VCD help website....cuz folks wouldn't even be burning movies if it wasn't for the irc channels, warez, and etc.....

[thayne]

I guess he didn't bother to read the rules? Maybe they confuse him? LOL

[lordsmurf]

.that's where yall get all your shit from anyways...otherwise there would not be any VCD help website....cuz folks wouldn't even be burning movies if it wasn't for the irc channels, warez, and etc..

Some of us actually transfer VHS to DVD.

In fact, I haven't use IRC channels in about 7 years. The most I ever get from Kazaa is the occasional porn clip. Hotline and Carracho are too privatized these days. And the other P2P services aren't that good. And I have a computer that's pretty much warez-free.

I love cartoons. That's the only reason I'm into video. I have a collection I want to restore and safeguard. It sucks when a VCR eats a tape. I'm not in it to burn rentals or download (steal) movies.

The best way to start is to read. I wrote a guide for ATI VHS->DVD because I didn't want to repeat myself over and over again. Others have done the same for AVI->VCD. Find a guide and read it. If you don't want to read, then find a new hobby. This isn't a hobby for the impatient. It's taken me years to learn what I know.