What tool and or software is needed to convert a AVI to a VOB or something that will play on a stand alone DVD player? Can I put AVI in a VCD or SVCD format and than put it on a DVD, could I than fit 3 or 4 moviez on a dvd? I there anywhere I can go for a guide on this? Thank you for your time and have a good day/night.
I've seen this question before and it bewilders me. Yes you can change your .avi to VCD/SVCD (nero will do this for you). But why would you want to convert it to DVD? The quality will never be better than the source. So it makes more sense to just burn them as VCD's on ordinary CD-R's (much cheaper) and play them on your DVD player (most play VCD's but WILL NOT play scvd's).
I am just tring to do it for fun. I just want to do and see how it works out. It is to cold right now to want to go outside, so I have to find something to do
There are a number of reasons why someone might want to go from AVI to DVD. First as DVD media gets cheaper it's just more convenient to have a movie on 1 cd rather than 3 or 4. Secondly even svcd cannot capture most AVI's without sacrificing a lot of quality. BTW: most newer DVD players will play SVCD. That said, Afterdawn seems much more qeared to going from DVD to CD than with DVD burning in general. Perhaps that will change as DVD rippers drop in price and more people are useing them.
First I would say go to the doom9 link and read their opening statement. It reiterates some of what I said. There will be a loss (a substantial one) converting AVI to dvd. If your encoding your own media it makes no sense to compress it first. So I'm assuming we're talking about shared avi's gotten over the net (usually poor quality to begin with). Now I live in Canada and buy (wholesale) blank DVD-r's by the hundreds (spindles), retail 7-9 dollars. I get them for about 3 dollars (Canadian). If I buy a spindle of 80 min Cd-r's (retail) I can get a cd for about 30 - 45 cents. That's with all applicable taxes (and we have a media tax added above the 15% sales tax). So maybe you can get dvd recordable media cheaper. But for me not comparable yet. "Secondly even svcd cannot capture most AVI's without sacrificing a lot of quality."-???? I'd go on about bitrates and and compression but I think it's futile (Video divX 1000kbits/s -DVD 8000kbits/s-SVCD 2500kbits/s max). The better picture probably comes from your DVD players filters (my sony doesn't filter vcd's so they look horable compared to playback on my panasonic). Not from the conversion. The end product is only as good as the source. "BTW: most newer DVD players will play SVCD." -This may be true in Europe/Asia but not in North America. All my players are less than two years old (2 Sony (less than two months), an Hitachi (proscan), Panasonic (proscan), and Panasonic(recorder)) none play svcd's but all play VCD's. That said, Afterdawn seems much more qeared to going from DVD to CD than with DVD burning in general. Perhaps that will change as DVD rippers(Do you mean rewriters/recorders/burners???) drop in price and more people are useing them. ??? - You need to scope more forums- I've gotten straight forward information on utilities I wanted to try (DVD burning) and thank all the posters for that.
