total newbie needs wisdom

[mbalba]

i have been dolading movies from the net, and have been encoding them using neodvd 5, i them use nero to burn them onto disc but when i view them on my dvd player the movie jumps and also the qulity isnt as good as the downloaded avi, mpeg file.

can anyone tell me how to avoid the movie jumpig and retain the high quality of the 700mb avi, mpg file??

Cheers

[bugster]

total newbie needs wisdom

You want wisdom, read the guides <========= Over there.

[mbalba]

well your a great help

[bugster]

well your a great help

You want more details. OK.

1st, tell what format the avi's are (divx, xvid, resolution, framerate, audio format etc).

Then tell me what format you want to convert them to (DVD, VCD, SVCD, XVCD, PAL/NTSC etc)

then I may be able to help.

But I still suggest reading a few guides as a damn good starting point, and quicker than waiting for someone to hold your hand through the whole process.

[Gazorgan]

700 MB full length movie is the problem. You are downloading something based on a disk size and not on any quality setting. The best you can hope for is VCD quality.

Assuming you don't live in the US and what you are downloading is legal (implying there are no legal 700 MB AVI downloads in the US, and there aren't), try bigger movies.

1400 MB AVI's (in 2 pieces no less :P ) are close to DVD quality (for short movies). 2100 MB AVI's are usually DVD quality and typically include an AC3 soundtrack.

It's much, much easier to work from an original DVD than to work from some unknown AVI. Never, ever assume the person that encoded it knew what they were doing. Converting AVI to MPEG2 to DVD requires a lot more tools that converting a DVD to an AVI.