What is the best way to convert & burn DIVX .AVI & .ASF movi

[CerberusNYC]

When I place .avi or .asf files into NERO to be burned as either VCD or SVCD, it goes through an encoding process first which I assume it to convert them into .mpeg files. Should I use this....does it work the same way as TMPGEnc? Whenever I try using TMPGEnc, it freezes and whenever I try using VIRTUALDUB to avoid TMPGEnc from freezing, it doesn't produce a .wav file but instead produces some unreadable file type.

Also, I used NERO once to convert to SVCD from a .avi file and it said it encoded and burned it to the CD-R. But when I tried to play it (Pioneer DV-525 which plays mostly everything and is highly ranked), the DVD player picked it up as only a CD and it didn't work.

Most of my files are divx in .avi and .asf so I really need to know how to convert them to VCD and SVCD efficiently without all these problems (i have a headache!!).

What is the best way to go about converting and buring my dixv .avi files?

Thank you for all your help!!!!!

[agzz]

For DivX to SVCD i encode with CCE by vfapi.avi.

[kdupes]

Just use nero and let it encode and burn for you. If you use TMPGEnc for encoding and nero for burning,you're encoding twice,so avoid that just use nero to do both.

[blkscorp]

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On 2002-01-17 13:33:41, kdupes wrote:
Just use nero and let it encode and burn for you. If you use TMPGEnc for encoding and nero for burning,you're encoding twice,so avoid that just use nero to do both.
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kdupes i also have nero 5.0 version and it did really encode the movie to be played on dvd, so don't you need TMPGEnc to convert the avi, asf or other formats first then burn it?

[agzz]

well its right that nero will encode the avi. the down side is the low quality.

on the outher hand since ithe sourse is divx maby its not that good in the begining?