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"DVD Burning - avi"

What do I do/need to burn an AVI file onto a DVD so it's playable in a normal DVD Player?

Surely it can't be as simple as drag, drop & burn? Can it?

Also, if any specialist software is required, please recommend the best - free if possible - program to use.

Thanks

You also need to check the sound. If its MP3 then your ok, if its 5.1 AC3 then you need to convert the sound as Ulead wont pick it up. Also Ulead is not brilliant at encoding things, you should really try and use TMPGEnc but as you said that doesnt work then Ulead might be best for you to use. There are other tools such as CCE to encode video you should really go to [URL]http://www.videohelp.com[/URL] to read up one everything is there can be alot to learn.

So if I use the GSpot program to identify the PAL/NTSC side of it, then use the Ulead one to convert it correctly and burn it, all should be good?

I'll give it a try once home :)

Get GSpot as this will tell you want the AVI is in terms of audio, fps(PAL 25fps, NTSC 23.97fps or 29.97fps), video. Another program to try is Ulead Movie Factory(trial available) as this will convert the movie to DVD and burn it. Again make sure you set the preferences to PAL or NTSC.

ßulle†† wrote:
> Also, I checked the _TS folders and there was nothing in the audio
> one - everything seemed to be in the video one :S

Dont worry, this is normal.

I have exactly the same problem at the moment and have tried so many differant software and ways of converting and i didnt even get as far as the video and audio TS files, so now i have decided i will try to convert it do vcd instead.

Colin

Could it be something to do with PAL/NTSC differences? There was no way of checking so I went with PAL...

Hello all, back again.

Well, the file I need to burn is an AVI, obviously, but TGMPEnc wouldn't recognise it - neither would Virualdub.

I downloaded a trial of a program called DVDSanta - which converted everything for me and created the audio_TS and video_TS folders (is that their names?).

Anyway, I did a test write, and it was successful - however, when I went to write properly, I got an error just over half way through. the error message was all scrambled gibberish, then another came up saying something like 'data write fail' and it proceeded to spit my disc out, now unusable.

Any ideas what went wrong? I bloody hate it when things 'test' perfectly then screw up in the real thing. It's pathetic.

Also, I checked the _TS folders and there was nothing in the audio one - everything seemed to be in the video one :S

Help would be greatly appreciated!!

cookie monster wrote:
> adrian wrote:
> I would as I have tried it on mine and using the sound from the AVI
> sometimes messes the sync up and it takes longer to encode. Takes
> less than a minute to extract the sound, and the encode can be quite
> alot less, so I would say its worth it.
>
> Ah right, it worked ok for me, so i just done it all in the one-er.

Try it with extracted audio as you might be suprised that it takes less time to encode.

adrian wrote:
> I would as I have tried it on mine and using the sound from the AVI
> sometimes messes the sync up and it takes longer to encode. Takes
> less than a minute to extract the sound, and the encode can be quite
> alot less, so I would say its worth it.

Ah right, it worked ok for me, so i just done it all in the one-er.

ßulle†† wrote:
> Thanks for the help. So is this TMPG program free or does it have a
> trial? I'll only need it this once so don't really want to pay for
> it!

It is sort of free, you can only convert so many things to MPEG2 though.