need help selecting the right tool

[willymakit100]

ok, yell at me if i'm stupid... the problem i have is that i have a bunch of ~700mb mpegs that i want to put to dvd. i dont want them to be resized and the only program that seems to burn them ok is nero10 but its dvd menu creation is kinda crappy. i can get 6 or 7 on a dvd with nero but any other prgram ive tried to use wants to make the image way to big.. thanks for any help.

[manono]

i dont want them to be resized and the only program that seems to burn them ok is nero10 but its dvd menu creation is kinda crappy.

Unless they're already 720x480/576, they'll be resized. So you can give up on the unresizing idea. If your AVIs are XviD/DivX, to encode for DVD (MPEG-2 video) will require a larger size for somewhat similar quality. If your plan was to convert each 700MB AVI into a DVD of the same size, then forget that idea also. And if these 700 MB AVIs are movies, then even with the 6 or 7 you're getting from Nero it must look like utter garbage. Ordinarily most people are happy with a couple of AVI movies converted for DVD on a single DVDR disc. Maybe try AVS2DVD. I wouldn't really recommend Nero for much of anything.

And if you want elaborate menus, use a decent authoring program. Most of the all-in-one programs create the most basic of menus.

[hech54]

ok, yell at me if i'm stupid... the problem i have is that i have a bunch of ~700mb mpegs that i want to put to dvd. i dont want them to be resized and the only program that seems to burn them ok is nero10 but its dvd menu creation is kinda crappy. i can get 6 or 7 on a dvd with nero but any other prgram ive tried to use wants to make the image way to big.. thanks for any help.

No...you have 700mb AVI/Divx/Xvid files that have been compressed to hell and back from their original state(DVD) and the quality they once had is gone and gone forever. Each of these 700mb files came from one DVD....putting them back to DVD will worsen the quality even more AND you will only get one(MAYBE two) of these movies back to one DVD. 7 of these video files burned to a DVD will be a "data DVD"....and a data DVD is not a DVD that is playable in a DVD player. These aren't ZIP files. Once they are compressed down to 700mb from their original 4-5gb size...they are done. It can only get worse from here.

[neomaine]

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Now that we've got that out of the way... The best you can do is burn them to a DVD+/-R as a data disc and hope that your DVD player supports divx/xvid and the different ways they can be encoded.

If these really are MPEGs, then they have to conform to DVD specs. See 'What Is DVD' to the left for specifics. If you're still not sure, use gspot or mediainfo to find out what's in those files.