Creating DVD-Video from 6 AVI files

[rock_king_my]

Hi all.

This might have been answered, so please point out some links in this forum if that's the case.

I have 'DVD rips' I made myself around 700MB each, video resolution about 480x272.

I used a DVD ripper to make them, DivX with MPEG4 codec setting.

I want to make a DVD-Video compilation with 6 of those files so I'm looking for a software that can build some nice navigation menus (silent still menus to save disk space).

I also have ripped the Chapter cell times (.txt) & subtitles (.SUP) from PGCdemux so I want the software that can accept these. Or at least .SRT subtitles.

I have tried to import my AVI files into TMPG DVD Author 3 & DVD Authoring Works 4 but one AVI file alone just takes up about 4GB of the potential disk.

So I need some suggestions. Do I go for one of those ULEAD/CYBERLINK type software or something else?

[Baldrick]

6 movies? You can only fit 2-3 hours/dvd if you want good quality. But if you lower bitrate/quality you can fit more. I'm not sure if you can adjust it in tmpgenc authoring works. Or try convertxtodvd or avstodvd, they support srt subs.

[guns1inger]

You can't do it without making them VCD resolution and quality. If you have the originals, why bother ? You have already thrown away 75% of quality by resizing them down to a low resolution and re-encoding them, and you want to do it again ?

[marioval]

Get yourself a DVD player that plays DivX Ultra files, add your subs and chapters with aviaddxsubs, then just burn these 6 files as data. You can find them at Walmart or Target for $40 these days.

[rock_king_my]

Hi again.

Actually these 'rips' I made a long time ago for my portable media player (PMP) & I know they are like 'VCD' quality since my PMP can't play videos with high resolutions.

So yes, I wanna make a compilation of VCD movies/music videos but in the format of a regular DVD-Video.

These compilations are also for relatives/friends with old DVD players that doesn't play DivX/AVI files.

Out of AVStoDVD & ConvertXtoDVD which I just 'newly' tested (never tried them before!), I like AVStoDVD because it takes .SUP files & Celltimes chapters from PGCDemux.