Burning difficulties

[killalicka]

I am quite new to burning movies etc and therefore I am experiencing difficulties to burn AVI files.

I have tried to burn several files with different tools (NERO, DVD Santa etc.) and none of them actually worked... Even though I followed guides how to convert, encode and burn AVI files it still won´t work.
Either I am getting a error message during the process of encoding or within the actual process of burning.

I tried AVI2DVD since it was recommended and it seems to be straight forward to use. I installed several encoders (CCE SP/ TMPG) but even after following the steps of the guide (http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/avi_to_dvd_avi2dvd.cfm), no luck. It would encode the audio file but not the video file.

After plenty of wasted DVDs and too many attempts to encode I am desperate.

Any ideas? I´d appreciate it.

Killa

[ZippyP.]

Check your avi's with gspot and make sure you have the required codecs installed.

[jameshgross]

Why waste DVDs. Try DVD+/- RWs till you solve your problem.

[chaos_maiden]

i had some issues with this when i first start burning dvds as well (i use nero vision for my burning). Nero is extremely picky about having the correct codec installed, but instead of giving you a warning message or something of that nature, it either locks up the program, or sometimes your entire computer. note: just because media player manages to play it, doesn't mean you have the correct codec, as zippy suggested, use gspot to find out what you need.

[thecrock]

Sorry, but how does media player play the file if it doesn't have the correct codecs.

[Abond]

Sorry, but how does media player play the file if it doesn't have the correct codecs.

Through DirectShow decoder something as ffdshow.

[spectroelectro]

You're not being clear about exactly what you want to do, but reading between the lines I'm guessing since you're burning avis that you want to burn fix or xvid files to a DVD-R or a CD-R and then view 'em on your DVD player.

That shouldnt' be much of a problem because all you have to do is burn your avis as data files. The DVD player should play 'em if your version of divx or xvid is compatiel with what the DVD player can play.

Alas, no guarantee that a DVD player will play xvid or divx files even if the VD player trumpets the claim that it's "divx playback compatible." There are still quite a few flavours of divx, and in particularyou may run into problems with the audio track of you avi file, which can give even the most divx-compatible DVD players conniption fits. Most divx avis use mp3 for the audio track but some use variable rate mp3s and some even use ogg.

If I were you, I'd burn a simple data disc of your divx avi and check to see if you can play it on your computer. You should be able to if you've got the right divx codec installed on your computer. Then try playing it on your DVD player. If it plays on your computer but not on your DVD player, there's something about your divx files that your DVD player doesn't like. This seems to happen about half hte time with xvid files in my experience.

If, on the other hand, you're trying to take a raw Type 2 DV AVI and burn a DVD of it, note taht you'll have to encode it to mpeg-2 first, and then use a DVD authoring program to chew on the mpeg-2 files and output files that can be burnt to DVD. It's best to do this with specialized mpeg-2 encodig programs. All-in-one programs like ULead DVD Factory 2 dont' do nearly as good a job of mpeg-2 encoding as standalone programs like Mainconcept or TMPGenc or Procoder or CCE or quenc. You must also get a decent DVD authoring program, not junk. Ulead DVD Facotry 2 along with the now-unavialble DVD Maestra are probably the best VD authoring programs around.

You might contemplate getting RecordNow as s separate program just to burn the DVDs. In either case if you're burning video DVDs full of mpeg-2 data, make sure you burn using UDF version 1.0.2 and not 1.5 or 2.0, etc. RecordNow does this automatically but you may have to tell Nero to do. Choose DVD ROM booktype and then UDF verison 1.0.2.