Hey Need Help With AVI - DVD conversion

[taylorhawkins]

Hey i have tonnes of Avi files on my hard drive and i want to put them onto dvds. I have Nero express but im finding the software hard to allow me to do it, any help on how i can get this avi onto dvds that will play on any home dvd system would be greatful. thank you very much

 

[SharekhaN]

if you dont want to rack your brains too much , there is Winavi which i would highly recommend . if you feel comfortable enough with codes and self configuring them try Cinema craft encoder or TMPG encoder

for any more info check Doom9.net - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource

 

[saumilsingh]

Avi2Dvd is the one I use.
It not only automatically merges 2 disc movies but also the subtitle files. All one has to do is point it to the proper files.

Also Avi2Dvd is 100% free and comes bundled with the necessary codecs. It can make use of CCE too if you have it installed, otherwise the included codecs provide excellent quality output anyway.

 

[xplicit]

^ saumil how long does it usually take for you to encode a standard 2 hour AVI file into DVD?

 

[taylorhawkins]

Thanks for the reply, but that is also a concern, the timing of the file, i have had some previous software and while trying to convert it took over 8 hours only for my laptop to crash on it... thats my only problem

 

[saumilsingh]

^ saumil how long does it usually take for you to encode a standard 2 hour AVI file into DVD?

Around 4 hours using the HCEnc encoder included with Avi2Dvd.

Edit: 1337th post hehe.

 

[IceFusion]

well i used Nero VIsion .. it also takes around 3 hours to convert 2 AVI files and burn a playable DVD..

 

[saumilsingh]

Nero Vision doesn't have any support for subtitles does it?
Also my cpu is slow, which may account for the 4 hour encoding period.

 

[sunbiz_3000]

I guess if u wanna write it to a DVD then.....AVI files can b written to DVD using "Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5"... It does a conversion of AVI to VOB and then writes it, but it gives nice DVD authoring tools, with menus and nice music and stuff... Also u can choose the various video/audio quality options before conversion to VOB begins...

I guess thats the fastest way to burn DVDs from AVI files, but then the conversion does take same time as would other conversion tools (about 2-3 hrs) depending on ur PC config.

 

[SoulFire]

try winavi converter usually any pc conversion within an hr

 

[xplicit]

Nero Vision also requires that you have at least 9gb of free disk space...