Converting the files

[IceKool]

Well, I have been doing a small amount of DvD's, putting like episodes of drama's onto dvd's, however, I'm a person full of perfection.

So the dvd's I've made have some slight minor problems.

Firstly: The audio does not sound too clear, as many dvd's have really clear sounds and also the video file itself is clear enough.

Secondly: When the episodes are being played, there seems to be like a minor white line flashing (not often, but at times) and some other lines flashing around. Sometimes there isn't and also if people don't really care about it, they wouldn't really notice em. However, like I said, I'm a person full of perfection ><

That is most of the problems so far.

What I use to convert is WinAVI and also the original files are "rmvb".

The files are converted into MPEG-2;Quality:Higher;Width:704;Height:576;AudioSampleR ate:44100;AudioBitrate:128k;Preference:Speed;Sourc eAspectRatio-4:3.

I hope these informations are useful.

Also, some people tell me TMPGEnc to convert is way better. I don't understand, can someone explain? And should I be using that instead over WinAVI?

[redwudz]

WinAVI is not popular around here. Their company has paid spammers that have continually assaulted our site. Besides, that, it's not a very good program. If you want to use all-in-one converters, ConvertXToDVD is a much better choice. But I don't know if it can handle RMVB, but it does list RM files for conversion. SUPER likely can. RM and RMVB are very proprietary formats and and not a lot of programs can work with them.

I'm not sure about the 'white lines'. They could be from the original video or a result of the conversion process.

DVD audio is 48Khz. If it's 44.1, it will need to be converted. You can't really improve audio. I suspect RM has already damaged it from the original quality. More conversions won't help any, either. If you can get TMPGEnc encoder to a accept a Real Media Variable Bitrate file, it would likely be much better quality than WinAVI. You would still need to author the file for DVD. You would also likely have to do this with SUPER. ConvertX can convert to DVD video.

For more options, you can look to the left in 'CONVERT' and plug in RM to DVD for the conversion and you should see a few guides and options.