avi to dvd

[buloo]

Hey, i have been trying to change 25 mins worth of avi file onto dvd.

i am converting them fine, on ffmpegX, to mpeg4 [.mov] or dv [amongst others], and then trying to burn thhem on idvd. i tried setting the conversion so the target file was about 900mb so i could fit four 25min movies onto one dvd, but in idvd it comes out at 1.7gb, however when you look it up in info it says it is only 80ish mb.

could someone please explain why thhere is this difference, and how i might possibly be able to transfer four 25 minute long avi files to 1 dvd.

i am new to this, so nice and simple please! thank you very much, buloo

[buloo]

any help will be greatly appreciated. cheers...

[Mildew]

could someone please explain why thhere is this difference, and how i might possibly be able to transfer four 25 minute long avi files to 1 dvd.

You might want to try Toast 7 or iVCD 3.0, instead.

[aliali]

The easiest thing to use for putting multiple avi's onto a dvd is

SVCD2DVD which has it's own forum on this site if you look, a
great piece of kit and as I say easy to use.

[buloo]

hey sorry to still pester you; the prob i am havin is that the converted file is larger than expected. as i said earlier i would like the file to be about 900mb, but it comes out as 1.7gb in idvd, and only 80mb in a properties window. also it is always 1.7gb in idvd even in different formats? is the size to do with the length of the video rather than the format? surely there is a way to compress the file, through encoding, that will still work on the dvd but on a smaller file size? please help!!! thanks

[qw3rty]

I haven't tried SVCD2DVD or iVCD, but I know that Toast can do this. But when you convert an AVI to DVD with toast it looks a little blocky.

[DeusExMachina]

Why are you converting them to MPEG4 or DV? IN the absence of a compelling reason,this makes no sense, since you have to convert to MPEG-2 anyway for the DVD. The reason the file sizes are so big is that iDVD has to convert the MPEG4s to MPEG-2 for DVD, and they are going to be at least twice as big.

[buloo]

sorry deusexmachina, new a this, i understand what you say now. dont really have a clue, so am trying to make it mpeg2 then to idvd, as you said[i hope thats what yousaid ],then onto idvd-encoding now.

another, no doubt frustratin set of questions;

1) how could i go about changing rm onto dvd? i downloaded what i thought was the attachment to ffmpegX, but nothing happens
2)also, when installing you have to download 3 other things [to go by law], i got all three, and it worked fine first time, but each time i open it now, it says to relocate mpeg2enc.so i do this, tick the box, put in my password, and press install; it comes up with a message that i have to find the same file again?

again any help would be appreciated : ) sorry for being such a dunce

[threestain]

is there an easy way to take avi files (e.g. 4 of them) and encode them for DVD and also create a menu using ffmpegX?

I have been using toast to do so, but have had problems with the .avis created by ffmpegX crashing toast. So I ran the avis through Divx Doctor II to create .movs and they have worked fine. However, obviously I could use ffmpegX and cut out this intermediate step...

If only I knew how!