Hello, I use convertxtodvd to convert all my avi files onto dvd. I normally burn with nero at 2x speed. BUT, I've noticed that everytime I burn a movie ( original avi file around 800 megs on average) it artifacts during the really dark scenes in the movie or sometimes during random parts. You can see little blocks and the colors get really gloomy, huge pixelation as well. The original avi file is 90% of the time, high quality. Yet, it still artifacts when I play them on BOTH my standalone DVD players. I've tried using various media, the results don't change (currently using Imation 4x DVD+RW media, only media I have available). The encoding option in ConvertXToDVD is set to high, so thats not a problem. Should I simply use a different program to covert my files? I heard convertxtodvd was the best, but Im willing to try other programs out.. please help guys, thanks!
I have the same problem. I think that, when all said and done, Convertx is still a "one pass" encoder and will never reach the quality of things like TMPG. What you could do is make MPEG-2's (these are DVD standard) with TMPGenc Plus or Xpress (in my experience, slow but no pixelation ever so far) and then create menus with another app like Nerovision. Again, I've found NeroVision (even with two pass) sometimes creates that blocky pixelation effect, but when it uses TMPGenc's MPEG-2 output Nero doesn't re-encode it, it goes through a quick "smart encode" which simply rearrages the files into a DVD structure. I also find that using DVD Shrink to create ISOs from folders and then burning the ISO to disk seems to lessen the likelyhood of errors.
