Burning amvs to a dvd

Kraise · Post by **Kraise** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:55 am

Hey,

I was wondering how you would go about doing this. I wanted to burn some of my amv's on a dvd so I could watch them on TV, and show some friends, but it wasn't as easy as I thought. I think I need to convert the .avi to a dvd format somehow....

Is there any programs that convert .avi to .iso or whatever dvd's use? Oh, and also would I need anykind of special dvd player to play them if I ever actually manage to burn em ?

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:15 am

To make a Video-DVD you need an authoring software. Often it is shipped with the DVD burner, sometimes it comes with the editing software, but standalone versions do exist too. The files on DVD's are in MPEG2 format. Often the authoring software can convert AVI's into MPEG2. If not, many of the editing software can do it too. But even for this task you can get standalone MPEG encoders. A good resource for the necessary tools is doom9.org

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:59 am

Sorr for the double post, but there something I forgot to write yesterday. There is no guaranty that self burned DVD's run on every standalone player.

gangstaj8 · Post by **gangstaj8** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:00 am

Just stepping into the world of DVD burning myself, I've learned that the formats DVD +/- R are the most compatible with standard DVD players. This may be common sense to some, but I was just totally confused before doing some research. One of the resources I used (mysimon.com) said that the DVD-R is somewhat more compatible with players than the DVD+R. Dual Layer discs should work fine, RW discs not so much, and DVD-RAM is pretty much unusable for standard DVD players.

But Keeper of Hellfire is right, your burner should've come with it's own software for taking care of most of the conversion from whatever video format you have into DVD format (guessing it's going to be .VOB's since that's what comes off of a DVD). Read up on your software's manuals to find anything that's helpful. Good luck.

Kraise · Post by **Kraise** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:13 pm

Thanks for the help guys, that explains why the DVD+RW wouldnt work x.x, I'll go get some of those DVD-R and try them.

Anyway, I read alil more about program(Found a tut actually) I'm using
Avi2Dvd and ImgBurn, (don't have money to go buy a program like nero ><)
If anyone uses this, just want to know if I'm doing this right as I can't play on my current DVD player to test.

Input) Load AVI in, choose aspect.
Output) Sellect destination, click make ISO
Encoders) HCEnc, Best, Mpeg
then Start. It makes me an .ISO.. Then I burn that with imgburn onto a disc.

Is that all right?

gangstaj8 · Post by **gangstaj8** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:41 pm

The process sounds right, and in the right order for that matter. I can't begin to tell you what encoders you should or shouldn't be using because I've not used either of those programs, but MPEG is the correct format. Not sure if it has to be MPEG2, I thought I read somewhere that you could use MPEG1, but you lose some quality. However, I could be wrong about being able to use MPEG1 on a DVD, as I've also been researching VCD's, which use MPEG1.

So it sounds to me like you're on the right track, and if someone knows wiser, then I hope they speak up for both our sakes. Good luck.

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:05 pm

Burning the iso file to dvd won't give you a playable dvd. You need dvd authoring software that converts the iso file to a vob file to burn to the dvd. If your dvd burner didn't come with any authoring software you will either have to find some on the net or purchase some like nero or creative. Here is a trial version that might be what you need, it's on pcworld.com downloads page. http://pcworld.com/downloads/file_descr ... 250,00.asp

more http://pcworld.com/downloads/file_descr ... 237,00.asp

http://pcworld.com/downloads/file_descr ... 702,00.asp

I hope there is something here that helps.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:14 pm

oldwrench wrote:Burning the iso file to dvd won't give you a playable dvd....

Sure it will. I've done it many times. The iso file is just a binary image of the disc contents and in that sense it "contains" the vob's. (What is iso?)

Ulead's MovieFactory is reasonably cheap ($50) and there's a trial version. The older version-3 is only $36.

Kraise · Post by **Kraise** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:40 am

Okay... I need help again ><

I used AVI2DVD to convert to an .iso and burnt it with imgburn, and I played it on my dvd player but the playback is skippy somtimes and it just stops for like 7 seconds then starts again... So I tryed burning it with nero and it did the same thing, I played the .vobs from the iso on my computer and they do the same thing.
The video is:
Audio: LAME MP3
Compression: XVID

:$ It must be the encoder or the video... But both nero's and avi2dvd's encoders do this =|

Kraise · Post by **Kraise** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:34 am

Kraise wrote:I played the .vobs from the iso on my computer and they do the same thing.

Disregard that. I was wrong, they work perfectly on the computer, but when I burn them to my DVD+RW with IMGBURN the video seems to skip on my computer and my DVD player, It's at the right write speed, maybe I'll try a differnt program.

Btw, the video is 24 fps, arn't you suppose to have 29 fps for TV?