Settings for converting AVI to MPEG2 with WinAVI

[DJ KooPee]

Recently installed WinAVI, which seems a pretty good convertor

I want to encode my files to MPEG2 for authoring in DVDLAB...

Any suggestions on the optimum settings???

[guns1inger]

Uninstall WinAVI. It is not a "pretty good" converter, it is monkey crap. Aside from the incredibly unreliable nature and average quality of the software, it's parent company indulges in periodic spamming of our forums, yet refers users of it's crap product to us for support.

There is also a very good chance that no matter what settings you use, WinAVI will not produce mpeg2 video suitable for use in DLP. DLP has standards, and WinAVI is prone to regularly producing non-compliant output.

In short, get a real encoder. Tmpgenc Xpress is better and reasonably cheap.

If you want free, try HCenc, and FitCD.