A real newb needs help

[charyuop]

Ok, be4 you tell me go and check guides, lemme tell u that I did. The guide that I need is a dead link....maybe it was deleted.
I have always made (S)VCDs, but tired of using a bunch of CDs I bought a DVD+R burner.
Now reading here and there I guess I learnt that making a DVD is pretty much different than making a VCD. I read that I have to keep Audio and Video devided....but I am still in the dark
Since I use mostly AVI videos, what I understood that I need to do is:

Convert film into MPEG2. Devide audio and video. Convert audio into AC3 and the using the video (without audio) MPEG2 and the audio AC3 burn then DVD.

Is this all correct?
What tool u suggest to get a good result?
With the DVD writer I got a program called MyDVD from Sonic....is it any good?

Thank you for all your help in advance.

[Hardcoreruss]

There are many answers to your question check out the CONVERT section on the left hand bar, there you will find many guides on how to convert from avi to dvd.

[Gees]

Can't be too much help. You still have a lot of reading to do. But be careful what you read. I don't know who told you that you HAVE to separate audio & video. Sometimes that's true, but often not. It's also not true that you must use AC3.

Best suggestion is to try the software you have. (Buy a couple RW discs if you don't have any yet) and then you'll see all the differences from how you've been doing svcd.

Then you can start looking for better programs and compare them and read up on what others here like to use.

What's best for one person may never even work for another.

Good luck. Have fun.

[Gazorgan]

If you can make SVCD's then you can make DVDR's. The principles are the same. You rip and encode. You use different audio, and no cutting to fit a CDR. Heck, you don't need to encode the audio, it's already done! The authoring is another step, but it's minor ( I never saw the need for menu's ).

[housepig]

With the DVD writer I got a program called MyDVD from Sonic....is it any good?

I believe that MyDVD reencodes your audio files to PCM, which takes up 10x the space with no discernable benefit, so I don't use it. I use DVD Lab.

as far as encoding to AC3, you can use MP2 if your player will support it - on my player, it comes up much louder and distorted, so I split the wav from the original file and encode to AC3 using BeSweet.

But I have used m2v & mp2 streams (or muxed mpeg-2 files) generated by TMPG with no problems (other than the distorted audio).

[charyuop]

I had been to convert. AVI to DVD brought me to doom9 where I read that a DVD works with audio and video devided. The other guide which uses the tools I have is no longer existing.

[SLICK RICK]

AVI TO DVD

1.Encode to MPEG-2 with TMPGenc
2.Author with program of your choice
3.Burn to DVD with program of your choice
4.Enjoy

SLICK RICK

[charyuop]

Thanks, sounds alot like a (S)VCD......I will try