whats the best avi to dvd tool?

[WAK10]

hi.
coul anyone tell me what the best avi to dvd converter is?
tmpg has trouble sometimes reading the sound.
thank's

[bugster]

TmpGenc is (IMHO) probably the best. If you have audio problems, its either Ac3 or VBR mp3 audio. There are ways around this.

[Gazorgan]

There's no such thing.

Semantically there's no way anyone can help you. You said 'Best'. Do you mean final product quality wise? Do you insist that it take no more than 1 hour? Does it have to re-code to AC3 sound? Can it handle a DivX/XviD input? VBR Audio? Does it have to creat menues, Author? Burn?

You have to have specific requirements before you can get reccomendations. Insisting on animated menues eliminates many gret packages. At the same time, not being able to wait 20 hours for encoding could severly limit your options for 'perfect' output.

Besides, how many 1960's education videos or DV cam home movies do yuou want to do? These are the only forum acceptable AVI's you can convert to DVD :P

Most people can do extremely well with VDUB, TMPGEnc, and some basic Authoring application.

[bugster]

Besides, how many 1960's education videos or DV cam home movies do yuou want to do? These are the only forum acceptable AVI's you can convert to DVD :P

An waht about home video? Analog caps to AVI or DV avi. Aren't you allowed to convert those to DVD

[bode]

Depending on your budget, I think Canopus Procoder has a great looking interface, superb quality and an excellent PAL NTSC converter.

You can download a trial and there is great support on their forums. Try it out. However, you will not be able to edit your avi's with procoder, so I would suggest trying Vegas 4.0. It has great support for audio. Again a trial is available on their site.

You can go the cheaper route and download 40 different programs and spend ages learning each one of them.

There is no best program, just try all of them out and see what suits your needs.

[Vejita-sama]

CCE, most of us can only afford CCE basic (cost about the same as TMPGenc). I personally think that CCE does a better job at encoding MPEG2 streams and TMPGenc does a slightly better job at encoding MPEG1 streams.

But as previously mentioned there is no best.