Going nuts with my first Xvid to DVD convertion HELP HELP

[macleod]

You are right about the PAL and NTSC thing. All this time I was "assuming" that you were a NTSC person.

As far as burning, I use nero (I have very little experience with other burning programs), but depending on how the job ended up (did you go vcd, CVD,SVCD,or dvd) you need to have it formated for whichever format you ended up with.

[bobbysox]

With my mpeg file what more do I need for the file to play on my home DVD player? If I just drop it onto a DVD disk I don't think it will play on the player as it's missing an initating file.

Somethings missing to complete the project. But what?

[macleod]

what was the final format you went with?

VCD 352x288 1150bit rate 44.1 mhz audio
CVD 352x576 xxxxbit rate 44.1 mhz audio
CVD(non spec) 352x576 xxxx bit rate 48mhz audio
SVCD 480x576 xxxx bit rate 44.1 mhz audio
DVD 720x576 or 704x576 xxx bit rate 48mhz

Yes, you will need to make it playable on a dvd and you can use an application like nero, roxio,vcdeasy, burn4free to do that.

[bobbysox]

mpeg & a pint of lager

[bobbysox]

Well a result. I now have an mpeg file that will play on my pc. The sound is there too

I don't have Nero, even V6 don't support my LG drive. I do have B's Gold 5. BAO, Roxio Platinum by no matter the general way to got and the final components will be the same.

[bobbysox]

I used TMPGEnc's DVD Author to burn my first DVD conversion.

It worked which is an achivment in itself for me but it didn't look very good at all.
It was pixely with little squares breaking up the picture. Toward the end the sound lost it's sync and this got really quite irritating.

What can be done to clean this up?

I had to laugh as my first try gave me the reigonal error. Ha! and that from an AVI download, who'd of thought!!!

Well, I binned that disk and ran the file through DVD Fab and burnt a new disk that put stop to that stupid regional crapola.

I also noticed that toward the end of the movie there were a few minutes gone, yep, just not there. There were no gaps as such just a skip in the movie. Could this be background processes running on my PC during the burn and stealing memory. Hmm, I wonder.

I used BAO (burnatonce) to do the burn and I set the buffer to 512. Coud this setting be too high?

Come on folks givus your ideas

Cheers!!

[bobbysox]

Hmm, I'am stunned. No replys to this posting?

Why does it seem so difficult to get some decent results from these TPMGEnc, and the multitude of other apps that we all seem to dance around. Oh, sure they do all the work but you can spend the rest of your damn life messing around with settings and other crap. Let face it, who the heck has the time for that? I have a life too!

Do I seem pissed?

So how does one get it right first time? The guides on this site seem to never be quite right, always some stupid setting that isn't tweeked to perfection.

No! I don't want to be a movie pro, work in Holywood$$ or sell my services as a video producer, I just wonna convert a few damn movies.

Do I need to be an introverted geek to achive this,or do I need to be able to walk on water?

There is also another really drab side to this, and that is all the disks that get wasted on "trying" out tweak suggestions. They cost money. Right?

Isn't there anyone around that could write an emulator that could run a converted movie just as a home DVD player would? It would cure the wasted disks issue...well maybe.

The whold fun aspect of converting my movies seems to have gone right down the friggin shit house and it's cost more money in wasted disks sweat, anger and fustration than the thing is worth. Pity really.

Grateful for some surefire, no way to fail, idiot proof, 1000% wonderful results suggestions on movie conversion.

thanks to ya'll