How can I burn items to DVD? Using Click to DVD software get

[sassywilla]

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I have a bunch of ...episodes...I want to burn to DVD
I am using Click to DVD, everytime I go to import certain files I get a message saying
Can not import following - format not supported or Corrupted --
These specific files were AVI , but it does it with mgp files too.

It took me forever to download these, am I screwed?

[tompearson]

Try DVDLab to author and then burn with your favourite burning proggie. Its more forgiving. It is possible that you have slightly out of the norm files which Click to DVD wont correctly convert and burn.

You may need to let DVDLab split the video and audio streams and transcode the sudio to 48Khz.

Are the avi file specs OK, have you checked them in Vdub?

good luck

Tom

[Craig Tucker]

Am not familiar with click to DVD, is it an encoder as well as authoring software. If the files are AVI then they have to be encoded to mpeg2 for DVD. TMPGEnc is excellent for encoding.

[sassywilla]

Wow, you guys said a bunch of stuff I didn't understand. I was hoping it was a simple matter of collecting the episodes, burning them to a disk and popping it in my dvd player!
The one I did manage to burn and get to work in my player had screwed up audio. By the end of the show the audio was like 1-2 minutes ahead of the characters-very difficult to watch!
So, I will try downloading DVDLAb and seeing what I come up with.
Thanks!!

[sassywilla]

double post

[Craig Tucker]

The files still need to be converted to mpeg2 before they can be authored with DVDlab. See the convert section in the how to guides. Like I said previously I highly reccomend TMPGEnc for converting.

This is not going to be a piece of cake point and click process, you need to do a fair bit of reading but the rewards are well worth it. You are bound to stumble across problems, but nothing that cant be overcome, there are some excellent guides on this site. And you can always post back here for more assistance.

[sassywilla]

Bear with me. So, I am going to take my AVI files (some or MPG files that Click to DVD won't burn either) and convert them to Mep2 files using TMPGEnc. Then I will burn them to DVD using DVDLab?

[Craig Tucker]

Step 1 - Convert files to mpeg2 DVD format with TMPGEnc.
Step 2 - Author files ready for burning to DVD using DVDlab.
Step 3 - Burn using DVDlab or other 3rd party burning software such as Nero.

[sassywilla]

Okay. I could not get DVD lab to download. BUT
I converted my files to MPEG1 using TMPGEnc.
I interlaced so thee not two separate video and audio files. The files turned out HUGE! They went from being 97,000 kb to 1,336,000+kb, but they were accepted by my Click to DVD software and I could burn them to discs that worked in both of my DVD players.
Howver, the play is a bit jumpy towards the end of the dvd and in one of them during the last episode the dialog is way off. Is this because I skipped part two and didn't author with DVDlab? Did I do them right with TMPGEnc.?

Will DVDlab shrink the files back down and keep the audio from getting messed up? I would like to get more than 3 episodes per disc on each DVD.
Am I converting the files with TMPGEnc. properly?

Thanks so much!

[Craig Tucker]

The size of the files is directly related to their duration and the bitrate you use to encode, the authoring process will not affect filesize. If you want smaller files then use a lower bitrate during encoding (remember though the lower the bitrate the poorer the video quality). If you are having problems with audio sync this could be due to the fact that the source avi is encoded with a variable bitrate audio stream which tmpgenc does not like. Open the avi file in virtualdub, under audio select direct stream copy and no compression, then save the wav file. You will end up with a large wav file of approx 10MB/min. Then open TMPGEnc select the avi file as the video source and select the wav file you have just saved as the audio source and encode. This should sort out the audio sync problem. If you are creating DVD's from these avi files then ideally you would use mpeg2 rather than mpeg1, although mpeg1 is also supported.