New to DVD Burning with 2 problems

[tavalus]

Ok, just starting at this and trying to figure it out and reading guides and I tried to follow them but I wound up with a big problem and a little one. The big problem first.

So I have a movie I want to burn, it's an avi. I recoded it to a vob with IMTOO MPEG Encoder, and then I read guides on how to burn a vob to a dvd and they said to use VobEdit and IfoEdit to make the files I need. I hope someone here is familiar with these programs. So I now have 1 vob file and I went into Vobedit and opened it and did the join clips thing after renaming it like you're supposed to to TS what not, my main problem is that the guide says that after the process is done you should have 1 or 2 files, I wound up with a folder with 30,000 files about 10-80kb in size. Literally 30,000, not trying to make it sound worse than it is. So I thought "Ok, maybe that's what is supposed to happen" I went through all the steps afterwards on the Ifo/Vobedit guide site and made the ifo/bup files and went to Nero to try and burn the dvd but it said you can't have files with names higher than like 10 and I have up to 30,000. I did this with more than one movie file and wound up with 24,000 for the second movie. Why is VobEdit making all these files? If I only have 1 vob file to begin with do I need to do the join clips thing? If not, what do I do to make the ifo/bup files needed to burn my avi?

Second problem which is slightly smaller, someone told me that I can skip doing all that and just load the avi into Nero Vision 4 and it'll transcode it for me and I can burn the avi to a dvd, which I did and it works, however halfway through the movie (it's 2 hours long and at 1:14 min) it starts to get choppy. When I play it on my pc, the avi not the dvd, the movie isn't messed up it plays through smooth, so how come it's messed up on the dvd and how can I fix it so it doesn't happen again? When I went to burn the movie I got a message that said (not exactly) "The majority of the movie is in PAL but the settings are for NTSC do you want to convert the movie to NTSC or leave it in it's original format" or something like that. Would that have done it?

I would *greatly greatly greatly* appreciate any help anyone could give me on this.

Oh, and my dvd player is a Panasonic RV-26 is that helps and I have Nero 7

Thank you in advance

[Baldrick]

convertxtodvd.

[Bjs]

Super would be the simplest to use to convert avi straight to vob's .

Then to make burning even simpler , use imagetool's rather than nero directly .

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Want to do it a slightly longer way , but one that will work :

Go to guide's section and grab my guide's ... all you need is in them .

[jimmalenko]

1. Your software creates/outputs a VOB file but no IFO/BUPs ?

2. http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/test.htm#IFOEdit will guide you through creating IFOs/BUPs if you already have a VOB (and presuming that the VOB is less than 1GB in size). If the VOB is > 1GB, try https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=723#723 .

3. Never used ImToo, but I have seen the devastation that is NeroVision. Run ..... run for your lives !

Convertxtodvd is a good all-in-one solution IMHO and can burn as well. Or try dedicated tools such as TMPGEnc, TMPGEnc DVD Author and http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/AVI2DVD.htm .

[tavalus]

Thank you thank thank you guys, I really appreciate it and will try these things. I tried burning another movie with some suggestions other people had given me (using slowest burn speed instead of max speed and having nothing else running) but while the beginning of the movie seemed to be a better burned quality my 2nd burn attempt got all choppy only a half hour into the movie. I really hope some of the suggestions you guys made will help fix my woes =)

As to jimmalenko, about no ifo/bup's being created when I make a vob, yeah. ImToo is just a multiformat converter/encoder, it'll convert most anything into like 23 other format's, just straight conversion I guess though, no secondary files like the ifo's/bup's. Also, yeah, I think the vob's were more than 1GB when I was using vobedit, maybe that was the problem and why they were getting split up into 30,000+ files, I didn't know there was a 1GB limit.

I'm gonna check out Convertxtodvd and Super and the others. These will make the ifo's/bups too?

Thank you again =)

[jimmalenko]

Try https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=723#723 first, before trying other conversion tools. It is possible that you can still salvage what you already have converted without having to start again.

[tavalus]

Ok, I tried VSO Convertxtodvd, and it seemed to work. But when I burned the dvd it doesn't play on my dvd player, it says it can't read the dvd. I didn't touch any settings, but is there something I have to change? Also it said Evaluation version when I clicked burn, would that have done it? From what I understood about the program being the evaluation version burning with it would just put a watermark or something right, the dvd should still be playable?

There just seems to be so mnay tools for this kind of stuff and no kind of accepted standard for what the best tool is unfortunately or a good "all in one".