Good Avi to DVD

[RobAdam]

I have lots of avi's that only VLC player recognizes, if i use visual hub to burn these to dvd can i make them as chapters and will they burn sucessfully? (ive never used and havent bought visualhub yet)

What other progs could handle this?

I have Handbrake, Imgburn, DVD decrypter

Can i just keep adding the files into build mode in imgburn in decending order then create an image with the avi's?

When played in itunes and WM they just have audio and no picture....

Thanks...

[redwudz]

Better asked and answered in our Mac Forum. Moving you.

[RobAdam]

Better asked and answered in our Mac Forum. Moving you.

im not doing this on my mac im doing it on a vista pc!

[RobAdam]

you shoudl see that by the fact i said WM (windows media player), and theres no imgburn or dvd decrypter on mac!

[RobAdam]

I have found i can ccreat an iso of the avi's with imgburn but i need them to be in chapters....

[guns1inger]

Imgburn will only create a data DVD from avi files. If you want chapters then you have to convert them to compliant DVD format, or buy a Divx Ultra Certified standalone player and use Divx Author to re-encode you files to Divx with the Ultra features.

If you want to create a DVD, try DVD Flick, or FAVC with you want basic menus. If you want more complex menus, encode with FAVC, keep the working files, then use these in GUIForDVDAuthor to create the final DVD with menus and chapters. Burn the Video_TS folder with Imgburn in Build mode.

[RobAdam]

cool thanks ive got FAVC i forgot.

in the dvd options each title for each avi movie will be like a chapter once i burn that created video ts folder to dvd right? It says dvd menu txt so i presume so?

but then if i want to make my own menu and chapters indetail....

how do i just encode with FAVC? is that not creating to video ts files outof the avi's?

[guns1inger]

You need to understand the difference between Titles and Chapters

Titles are individual video clips
Chapters are arbitrary points in a title that a user can jump to

if you want each clip to be a chapter then you need to either join them all together first, then add the chapter points in when you author, or author with something like Tmpgenc DVD Author and add all the videos to a single title.

You can stop FAVC from authoring nicely, however the final authoring stage is only the last 10 minutes of the process. If you elect to keep the working files, then you will find your video and audio assets in the working folder that you nominated on the first tab.

Your other choice is to tick the box on the last tab that stops FAVC from processing the video, then edit the title.bat script to remove the muxman stage (last section), then run the script manually (double-click it).

After that, use the assets left in the working folder to author your disc.

[RobAdam]

Ok i just figured that out!

i want each avi to be a title (8per DVD is fine) im not bothered about chapters at all, just having each episode separate, i think if i do this with FAVC itll run smoothly and i can set the name for each title, add a menu backround picture, thats all i need.

i can do all that with FAVC it seems?

i need ot make the most of the videos i have theyre 350MB each i want to preserve the quality as much as poss....

id test it but im still downloading the avi's!

thanks...

[RobAdam]

one of the avis has downloaded so im gonna create a dvd ofit in FAVC then burn it with imgburn in build mode

when im generating DVD it messes up and says imgburn failed (during the FAVC conversion), i tryd again and now its encoding video...hope it works

[guns1inger]

I think FAVC only opens Imgburn. Regardless, I let FAVC create the VIDEO_TS folder and required files, then I test it before burning. No point wasting a disc for no good reason. Once happy I will run Imgburn and burn the disc.

[RobAdam]

how do you test it before burning?
mount it or something like that right?
could you explain how to do that...

ive got all 7 episodes and typed in the titles and am creating the dvd right now, the preview didnt work for seeing the title for some reason....

fingers crossed...

[guns1inger]

I don't output to an ISO, just to a VIDEO_TS folder. Power DVD or Media Player Classic can play it from there.

[RobAdam]

cool, for some reaosn it encoded pass1 then pass 2 now it doing pass 1 again, i hope it doesnt have to do this for each avi file i gotta go to work in 10 minutes and wanted to hook up my friend with the dvd

[guns1inger]

FAVC will have to encode every video. If you selected 2-pass VBR then it will do two passes on each file, then encode the audio, then author. I don't know you comp specs, but on my C2Q6600 it takes around 30 minutes for a 2 hour movie using predictive quant mode across 4 CPUs, but it still takes around 2 hours to do a 2 pass VBR encode because it is limited to a single CPU.

[RobAdam]

ok cool itll be done by the time i get home in 5 hours then
even tho my tvs hooked up via DVi to VGA so i can watch them anyway but i just wanna test the dvd for my peice of mind, cool im off to work!!!

[RobAdam]

i generated the qudio and videoTS files but theyre empty?

[RobAdam]

i have working files full of m2v's and ac3's, what do i do with these?

the video ts folder is 100% empty....

[guns1inger]

It shouldn't be, so something broke during the authoring stage.

In your output folder, how many DVD folders are there ? Every time you start a project in FAVC it creates a new output folder, sequentially numbered. The highest number should have you files.

[RobAdam]

it makes a dvd folder in the folder i have set to output and creates a videoTS and audio but theyre both empty, i dont get an error messages or anything...