A n00b question about AVI2DVD

[Raiders757]

Hello,

Sorry to be waisting anyones time, but I am new the DVD burning process. I enjoy bootleg concerts, and have a show in AVI format. Since I am new to burning DVD's, I decided to follow this guide.

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/avi_to_dvd_avi2dvd.cfm

It seems I am doing the right thing. I already had both DVD Decrypter and DVD2AVI, as I like ot rip my officialy released concert DVD's to aduio CD's.

The guide said all I needed was DVD Decrypter and AVI2DVD, so I downloaded the latest version of AVI2DVD, and went about following the directions given in the guide.

When I hit "Go", I get an error message telling me to choose an audio stream. When I try to do this, I get no audio stream options in the pulldown window. I also notice that my AVI file isn't giving the program any Film/File information in the little box in Step 1.

My question is...

Is my AVI file messed up, or do I need another program that isn't being mentioned in the guide?

Note: I am only looking for freeware at the moment. Until I get better at this, I am not willing to buy any programs, as I am cheap.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this question.

[SLK001]

Since your video is in .AVI format, load it into VirtualDub and see if it plays okay. If it does, you can export your audio as a .WAV file. Your video then needs to be encoded to .M2V format for creating a DVD. There are some freeware encoders out there.

I am familiar with DVD2AVI, and it is used mostly for creating an index file for frameserving. I am not familiar to your AVI2DVD program.

[jimmalenko]

Try the old freeware version of DivxToDVD.

[Raiders757]

Thanks for the response.

I think I am gong to try the DivxtoDVD program. I am not sure if I got the free version though. The download site had a redirect, and when I opened the program, it told me that it was a trial version only, and gave me the option to buy it.

I'm crossing my fingers, and hoping I don't screw this up on the first try.

Thanks again guys.

[jimmalenko]

Try this one:

http://fastdownload.softonic.de/ourfiles_de/windows/vsoDivxToDVD_setup_0.52.99.exe

[Raiders757]

Try this one:

http://fastdownload.softonic.de/ourfiles_de/windows/vsoDivxToDVD_setup_0.52.99.exe

Thanks.

The DivixToDVD worked, but it left a label on the screen that said trial version and gave their web page adress. That bummed me out, but still, it was a step in the right direction.

I'll try the one you linked me to next.

[jimmalenko]

Thanks.

The DivixToDVD worked, but it left a label on the screen that said trial version and gave their web page adress. That bummed me out, but still, it was a step in the right direction.

I'll try the one you linked me to next.

That's the trial of the payware version.



http://fastdownload.softonic.de/ourfiles_de/windows/vsoDivxToDVD_setup_0.52.99.exe is the freeware version and won't leave a watermark.

[Raiders757]

Hey jimmalenko


I just wanted to say thanks again for your time, and the link. I meant to do it sooner, but my PC was tied up bunring DVD's

The beta version worked great!!

Thanks, and cheers!

Raiders757