avi to dvd?

[coflas]

Hello everyone i know this question has been asked before
How to convert avi. files to DVD with audio pls?
and successfully view them on almost every DVD player
pls help me. I did use ffmpegX burned just fine to a dvd
but no audio did i miss something...pls someone help me.
I forgot to mention I have a G5 with toast 6
Thanks

[rumplestiltskin]

Some audio tracks in AVIs aren't handled well by one app or another. It's always good to have a few tools. I'm not sure whether Toast 6 supports direct encoding from AVI to DVD (probably not, as you've been using ffmpegX) so try Toast 7. It should do the encoding. Save it as a disk image and then mount the image to test it before burning it to a disc).

You could try MPEG Streamclip and convert to DV, then drop it into iDVD (assuming the DV movie ends up with audio).

Sometimes one of ffmpeg's conversion settings just won't do it so try converting it first to another format that won't lose much quality. Then, if the audio is fine, convert that file to DVD.

[coflas]

thanks but MPEG streamclip did not do the job iDVD
did not take my DV convertion what should i do next
pls help me....

[coflas]

I get this message "unsupported file type: video is over
90 minutes"?????

[rumplestiltskin]

Open the file in VLC (latest version) and use the export wizard. Export -only- the audio as "uncompressed, integer" in a WAV container. This can be used as "Add audio" in ffmpegX. So the file (which produces no audio in the destination) will be combined with this WAV audio and should give you what you need. Let us know.

[rumplestiltskin]

Does the DV file have audio? If so, drop it into iMovie. Then send it to iDVD.

[coflas]

thaks for all your help but im going crazzzzzzy
nothing works i don't know what to do next
can someone help me pls.

[coflas]

how can I make VIDEO_TS? from ai. files

[terryj]

coflas,
you should do one of the following:

First verify the length of your video in Quicktime.
Open the file in Quicktime, go to Window-->Movie Info,
and read what it says about duration. if th eduration is
more than this:
01:20:15
then you are over 90 minutes.

now, if you want to get this the simplest fastest way to DVD
( I can hear macuser25 dancing in the background)
then get Toast 7 and drag and drop the file into its
Video Tab window. Select DVD, and click burn.Insert a blank
and go.

If you want to get fancy, and create your own menus, or
you just have only iMovie and iDVD, then
what you will have to do is:

1.Convert the file to DV to import into iMovie.
you can do this with MPEG Streamclip. Just set the
Preference to "break into chunks to import into iMovie".
and it will do the rest.
After importing the files into iMovie, then set up the
clips in order in the Clip viewer.

Now here comes the fun part.if you have iDVD 4
or YOUNGER (3, 2) then you will have to edit the clips
in iMovie BEFORE sending it to iDVD, as early versions of
iDVD were capped at 90 minutes EXACTLY.
So you will either have to:

if this is a movie, cut it in half and then
Export the Clips to iDVD.

trim away stuff from the clip you don't need,
then Export the Clips to iDVD.

if you are using iDVD5, then you should be able to
Export the Clips to iDVD, without the 90min limitation.
( I only have read this, I abandonded iDVD after
iDVD4 was shortly released, in favor of DVD Studio Pro)

if you don't care about a menu, don't care about being fancy,
and just want to get a Video_TS of the .avi authored,
you can use ffmpegx to do the job, by just
dragging and dropping the file into the ffmpegx window,
and following the tutorial here.

so what do you want to do?

[coflas]

Thanks terryj but nothing I don't get any good reults
I don't get any VIDEO_TS folders when using ffmpegx
and my movie is over 90 min. so IDVD wont work
everything I try it just doesn't work. any more ideas?

[coflas]

Im going to get toast 7 what do you think?

[NarenFish]

It would help if you told us the specific audio and video codecs used in your .avi's. Do a "get info" in VLC or Quicktime.

[coflas]

Guys I did it Toast 7 supports direct encoding from AVI to DVD Im so happy many thanks to everyone
you guys rock........thanks again

[nepgunes]

if you don't care about a menu, don't care about being fancy,
and just want to get a Video_TS of the .avi authored,
you can use ffmpegx to do the job, by just
dragging and dropping the file into the ffmpegx window,
and following the tutorial here.

so what do you want to do?

what if you have 4 avi files that you want to burn to DVD not just 1?
I converted my avi files in ffmpegx to DVD mpeg2enc. but dvd studio pro wont let me import those converted files into it... and i dont know how to use sizzle.. i was unsuccessful a couple times?

thanks for any help..

[Frobozz]

DVD SP requires the MPEG files to be separate streams, such as an .m2v video stream and an .ac3 or .aiff audio stream. You can get this by demuxing your MPEG files.

[nepgunes]

DVD SP requires the MPEG files to be separate streams, such as an .m2v video stream and an .ac3 or .aiff audio stream. You can get this by demuxing your MPEG files.

what is demuxing your MPEG files?

[Frobozz]

Your MPEG files are now multiplexed (or muxed) which means the video and audio are in the same file. There are applications that will demultiplex the MPEG. One that I commonly use is MPEG Streamclip. One that I used to use is bbDemux.