Any AVI to DVD software?

[superklye]

I'm having some problems here...I got the first few episodes of season 4 of 24 and I want to be able to burn them to DVD. They were captured in AVI from the Fox HD broadcast and they look fantastic.

However, whenever I try and convert them in Boilsoft's AVI to DVD converter, it does the first 24 frames (how ironic) and then says it was done successfully.

Using TMPGnc, it refuses to open the file saying it isn't valid or it's not supported.

I'm at a loss of what to do. I need to burn these to DVD so I can get them to my dad and brother to watch but apparently, these AVI to DVD converters won't convert AVIs. :rolleyes:

[seastar]

will this make you happy? hehe
http://www.vso-software.fr/divxtodvd/divxtodvd.htm

[superklye]

if it works, maybe

[AthlonXP1800]

if it works, maybe

If it still not work, try AVI to MPEG Converter 1.5 (http://www.alleghanyeda.com/).

[Cota]

you can also try vsoDivxToDVD you can get it from www.free-codecs.com

you can also use nerovision express 3

[zoomy942]

windvd creator 2 works great too

[superklye]

I tried a bunch of programs and they all kept saying that the AVIs I was trying to convert weren't valid. So I checked out videohelp.com and someone had a tutorial using MainConcept's MPEG Encoder and I got the trial of that.

It worked PERFECTLY. So many awesome options to tweak and customize.

I still don't understand how a 350MB AVI gets converted to a 1.3GB MPEG, but whatever.

EDIT: but thanks to everyone who offered suggestions and stuff. I appreciate it. :)

[Cota]

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I still don't understand how a 350MB AVI gets converted to a 1.3GB MPEG, but whatever.
. :)

2 reasons

1.- your avi is probably encoded in mpeg4 which has a much better compression ratio than mpeg 1-2.

2.- For the video to be dvd compliant it has to scale it to 720x480 (or 768x480) which also increases file size.

[superklye]

you're right...it is MPEG4 but it's also in 720x480 already. It was captured from the HD widescreen broadcast.

[npras42]

Well in that case its just the compression. Its just like converting from FLAC to WAV in audio. Or converting from a zip file to the fully decompressed folder. As technology increases they've found ways of making things smaller without losing any quality. Unfortunately DVD uses MPEG-2 which is quite old tech.

(As a side-note MP3 is not one of these technologies as even at the highest settings (320kbs or whatever) the MP3 cuts things that are present in the original WAV. You or I may not be able to hear these "losses" but from a purely technical p.o.v. sound is lost.)

Sorry if I sound patronising and you already know all this.

[oldsk00l]

hmmm, iDVD does the trick for me...oh wait, :p

[superklye]

Well in that case its just the compression. Its just like converting from FLAC to WAV in audio. Or converting from a zip file to the fully decompressed folder. As technology increases they've found ways of making things smaller without losing any quality. Unfortunately DVD uses MPEG-2 which is quite old tech.

(As a side-note MP3 is not one of these technologies as even at the highest settings (320kbs or whatever) the MP3 cuts things that are present in the original WAV. You or I may not be able to hear these "losses" but from a purely technical p.o.v. sound is lost.)

Sorry if I sound patronising and you already know all this.
heh, it's alright. :) I've converted some non-HD AVIs and the filesize when converted to an MPEG-2 wasn't THAT much bigger...maybe a 100MB or so and that I can understand, but 5x the original size (and more depending on whether the audio is PCM or MP3 based) just seems so ridiculous to me.