What program is probably the best to use to convert from .avi to DVD ?

3rd Nov 2006 18:02 #1

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i've downloaded some movie files in .avi format and i'm trying to convert them to DVD with a high quality so i could burn them out onto DVDs, but 1 thing i don't understand is that when i tried to convert 1 movie file in .avi (480x320) and 1 in .rm (480x320) to DVD format, only the output of the .rm one had a high quality result and the other one was just too bad. Any suggestions or comments for converting from .avi to a high quality DVD format would be a great help to me, thanks

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3rd Nov 2006 19:35 #2

redwudz

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480X320 isn't high quality to start with. When you convert them to another format, you will always lose some quality. And you didn't say what format they were or what programs you were using for converting. AVI is not a format, it's just the name for the container the video is in. AVI can be any of a hundred formats. Formats are determined by the codec used. Gspot can tell you what codec it is using. I would guess Xvid, besides the RM. The RM may be more efficient compressing the video than your 'AVI' and that might explain the quality difference.

Anyway, for most stuff off the net, try ConvertXToDVD or the older freeware DivxToDVD. It will give you about as much quality as you can get from that type of 'net' video. For RM, try SUPER.

For getting a little more quality, or at least making it look better, you would need a standalone MPEG-2 encoder, and more important, the proper settings for your encoder, and possibly some filtering. Then you would need to author it to the DVD format and burn. The DVD format and specifications are to the upper left, 'WHAT IS' DVD. Because you don't seem to have a DVD spec framesize, the programs are likely resizing. When done improperly, this will cause quite a bit of quality loss.

The best cure is to do some studying and use separate programs for each step. Plenty of guides for each step to the left. CONVERT, AUTHOR.