Chiefgroover Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 I wish to put an .avi file onto a dvd so it will play in any dvd machine, how do i do this? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shilakadaddy Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 I use a program called ConvertXtoDVD: http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/ Has built in DVD writing software too, so its all you need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKEYmark Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 why dont you get a home divx player then you can ha from 4 to 6 films on 1 dvd.you can put loads of car vid clips on a dvdr and watch them.converting back to dvd takes a long time. my mate at work uses a program called dvdsanta to convert files back to dvd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliAl Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 avi2dvd is not to bad + it's free from http://www.afterdawn.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I use one called divxtodvd which I can't seem to find the URL for... but that said it absolutely cains your processor for the half hour it takes to recode... so maybe try a different one before this... I hear good things about DVDSanta... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 There's also one called (unsurprisingly) AVI2DVD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 DVD Santa, cracking little program, been using it for over a year now and never let me down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 I am after this solely to transfer digi camorder files to dvd. Tried convertXto dvd this morning but it could do the file? so I'll try the rest of these and hopefully get it sorted. Thank you for the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 DVD Santa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 NeroVision Express Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 NeroVision Express Yup I use that too. I've got a lot of films encoded with x264 and it's very easy to use NeroVision to create a DVD complete with menu's to stick 2 (or 3) films on a dual layer DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Dual layer discs are good but they're still like 5x the price of vanilla dvds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Dual layer discs are good but they're still like 5x the price of vanilla dvds. True. I'm waiting for a hardware player to come out that can play h.264/MP4 files straight from a DVD rather than having to reconvert to a proper DVD-Video (and lose more quality) disc. Can fit 4 films on a single layer DVD easily still with DVD quality... It's either that or build a media centre PC, which I can't afford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby_doo_do Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I use Nero recode - or Nero 7... Takes about 6 hours to make a disk with 5 episode of lost 2 on... just want episode 20 now :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I use Nero recode - or Nero 7... Takes about 6 hours to make a disk with 5 episode of lost 2 on... just want episode 20 now :-) I've just finished watching s02e20 - Wow! Major plot developments! Really shock ending too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bromy Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Takes about 6 hours to make a disk with 5 episode of lost 2 on... just want episode 20 now :-) You going to be selling these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Or you could buy yourself an xbox, if you havn't got one already, stick in a £40 chip and your sorted will play anything you throw at it, ANYTHING!! Best £40 i've ever spent. http://www.xbox-scene.com Geo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Or you could buy yourself an xbox, if you havn't got one already, stick in a £40 chip and your sorted will play anything you throw at it, ANYTHING!! Best £40 i've ever spent. http://www.xbox-scene.com Geo. That 700MHz PIII would struggle to play h.264 video I would have thought (I've seen you can buy modified xboxes with a 1.4GHz celeron processor and double the memory though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Well all the stuff i get from the web at the mo plays fine on the xbox. For fun i also installed a 120Gb hard drive, so i can Ftp games from my pc to the xbox. But for backup cases i bought myself a kiss 1504, which has a 40Gb harddrive installed, i hooked this baby up to the pc using wireless and can stream anything to it. Geo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Well all the stuff i get from the web at the mo plays fine on the xbox. For fun i also installed a 120Gb hard drive, so i can Ftp games from my pc to the xbox. But for backup cases i bought myself a kiss 1504, which has a 40Gb harddrive installed, i hooked this baby up to the pc using wireless and can stream anything to it. Geo The stuff you get off the net is usually xvid (or MPEG4 ASP), h.264 (or MPEG4 AVC) is the next video encoding method (of which x264 is one encoder). Needs a much higher spec processor to play back (and takes longer to encode too). h.264 is the codec used in new HD-DVD's and BlueRay discs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 TMPGenc is a great converter - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html Not a one click solution, but is very easy to use.. Also it normally gives a great output quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 Dvd Santa, rocks! cheap and easy to use I am a happy camper now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby_doo_do Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 "You going to be selling these?" Na - i download them and then one of my mates loves to watch them so i normally burn them on to a disk for him to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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