Could use some help in deciding which way I should go, pleas

[btrflismile]

Okay, I have all 22 episodes of a televison show downloaded on my pc. All are HDTV torrents in AVI format at a 640x352 resolution/width-height.

I was wanting to burn to CD so that I might allow others to watch them.

I want the quality preserved, ect.

Do I change the format/ join them all together? Do I make them into a DVD or a simple data CD.

Oh and one lone video is 640x368. Do I change its resolution to fit the rest? How do I do that with ruining the quality.

Anyway, what I'm asking is what would be the best course of action to burn these files so myself or anyone else could view them at a later date?

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Amy

[teegee420]

It depends on what your needs are. If you plan on only watching the files on your computer then burn them as data, either on CD or DVD. Same thing for the people you plan on sending them to. If you burn them as data they'll only be able to watch on their computer, unless by chance they have a DVD player capable of playing mpeg-4 which is doubtful.

If you want to convert them to standard DVD video this will require a lot of work on your part.

[Ste]

Okay, I have all 22 episodes of a televison show downloaded on my pc. All are HDTV torrents in AVI format at a 640x352 resolution/width-height.

Lemme guess. Smallville Season 3?

Yea, episode 7 is in 640x368, I didn't notice that. Thanks for the tip. Anyway, good luck trying to convert these files to another format. There's something wrong with the video and audio sync on these files, although DirectShow plays them fine. It uses MP3 VBR, but that's not the problem because VirtualDub MP3 Freeze and VirtualDubMod both crash. You can open it with regular VirtualDub and then save the WAV as uncompressed PCM, but the audio is about 33 frames early in Episode 1 and 18 frames early in Episode 2. You're just gonna have to guess and check. It took me 4 days to get the first 2 episodes in perfect sync and in MPEG-2 for DVD-Video. There's also lots of other audio problems on these files. On some episodes where a commercial was cut out, you hear like 1 second of audio that was from the commercial. For instance, you'll hear the WB guy say stuff like "Critics agree..." and "the Season Premi...". Check the first 2 episodes and you'll know what I mean.

I say save yourself the trouble by just leaving them in AVI format and burning a data CD or data DVD.

[Capmaster]

I would plan on putting them on DVD. There's no good reason to use Video CD anymore since everyone has a DVD player.

I would use an editor, pull in the clips one at a time, and stop adding when the output file approaches 4.38GB, or 4.0GB if you want to leave some margin for audio. Save the MPEG, then author and burn as a video DVD. If they are 22 hour episodes, minus the commercials, you're looking at maybe 6 DVDs.

[Supreme2k]

The title of this thread suggested that btrflismile was gender-confused.

[Capmaster]

The title of this thread suggested that btrflismile was gender-confused.

Good one. We must be careful to limit that stuff to OT forum Supreme, lest Baldrick hand out some yellow cards Still funny though