I'm Stumped on AVI to DVD

[kdfischer]

 
I'm stumped. I'm just not getting it for some reason. I've read so much about this that I think I've confused myself and probably made it more difficult than needed.

I took a movie that is in two AVI files and merged them into one file using TMPGEnc. Then I used Cucusoft AVI to DVD converter. It took 13 hours to convert, is that normal? Now I have an mpg file. It plays in Windows Media Player just fine. There are also two other files created: an mpa & m2v.

I don't know what to do from here. I just want this movie on DVD so I can play it on my DVD player; SVCD does not play on my player. I have Nero 6 but see no way to do it.

Help
KF

[Gothic]

put your two avi files into tmpgenc and convert them to mpeg2 then just author them to dvd with the likes of ulead dvd movie factory or similar.

[Lazza]

Hehe, the joys of Cucusoft!

I tried it out last week to compare the very latest version (4.2) alongside TMPGEnc Plus for VCD encoding. A 42 min XviD file took 35 mins in TMPGEnc and a staggering 1 hr 55 mins with Cucusoft!

Goodbye Cucusoft!

It's best to encode the .avi files first to mpeg then join with TMPGEnc I find if you want to avoid any sync issues too. Then as Gothic rightly said author to DVD

[celtic_druid]

Hmmm, TMPGEnc can't merge AVI's though.

If I were re-encoding I wouldn't join at all. Simply use AVISynth to serve them up as one file.

Part1 = avisource("part1.avi")
Part2 = avisource("part2.avi")
Part1++Part2

Should be perfectly in sync even if the audio and video of the first file are not the same length.

[blackbear]

I'm stumped too. Is there a tutorial for AVI to DVD? I used tmpeg to convert to dvd. it gave me 2 files. A .m2v and a .wav file. How do i get that to dvd with sound? Sorry for jumping thread.

[DR69ON]

Originally posted by kdfischer


I took a movie that is in two AVI files and merged them into one file using TMPGEnc.

First of all, it's not possible to merge 2 avi file with tmpgenc. So you didn't merge them or you merge 2 mpeg file while thinking they were avi. Whatever you did, didn't do it right or make it clear.

Originally posted by kdfischer
Then I used Cucusoft AVI to DVD converter. It took 13 hours to convert, is that normal? Now I have an mpg file. It plays in Windows Media Player just fine. There are also two other files created: an mpa & m2v.

If you're alrady using tmpegenc, why are you using cucusoft to convert? Makes little sense, just use tmpegenc to convert avi to mpeg.

Anyways, here's what you do if you have an AVI Files. I'll show you the basic first. You can treak it to your setting later on once you get the hang of things. I've convert over 1000 avi anime files so i'm sure I got the hang of it.

(1)First use Virtual dub to save (extract) the audio file into wave.
(2)Then use tmpgenc's project wizard. You choose what you want to make. DVD NTSC or DVD Pal if you're from the UK.
(3)Load up your avi file in the video slot. Load up the wave file you save earlier in the audio slot. Then click next until you're actually encoding the file. Once you get the mpeg2 file, use a program like movie factory to auther the dvd into vob files. Then just burn the Vob files and play on the standalone dvd player. This is just the basic though, so don't think this is "right" way to do it.

Oh yea to join avi file, just virtualdub. Load the first file, then go to "applend" avi segment for the second file. Set the videosetting to "direct stream copy". Then save as AVI, works for me all the time.

Encoding varies. For me, it takes about a 60min to encode a 60min film. If it's taking you 13 hour to do just a 120min film, than you really need to get a faster computer.