I'm a newbie (what else is new?). I have been practicing on a couple of downloaded .avi movies with several different programs to encode and then burning separately, to encode and burn at once, etc. trying to find a program that will produce a decent DVD movie to watch on TV and using basically the default settings...because I need default settings at this stage of the game. lol! The two movies I've burned are decent enough, but do have their problems. I don't know the technical terms and the glitches come and go, I guess depending on the individual sections (chapters?) and how they encoded. But in general here are the glitches I've noticed on one or both of them: A bar of white dashes like this - - - - - - through half the movie at the top of the picture. Splotchy/ghostly-like pixels(?) in some areas of some scenes. Sometimes the audio gets a little bit out of sync. That comes and goes throughout the movie(s). Subtitles (translating when a foreign language is used in a scene) do not show completely. A high pitched (but not too loud) hissing sound in the background. I should tell you that I probably have some missing codecs here and there because I've tried some of those codecs finders and they say I have some missing. But even if the DVD or file won't play on my computer (or plays in Media Classic but won't play on WMP), I don't really care as long as it plays on the TV. And so far, so good in that respect. I should also tell you that even though those codecs finders say I need this or that, on most of the programs I've tried, I don't get any errors to that effect when it comes time to authoring the file. Unless of course, the missing and/or unregistered codecs are the cause of the above mentioned problems in the resulting DVD. Also, Nero is the only program that froze during converting one movie. It did burn the movie after I used another program to encode it. That brings me to now. I read on a forum someplace (I think it might have been here, but can't find it again) about another poster having sound sync problems and a hissing sound. A reply recommended a program that will automatically try to fix those problems while encoding by ticking options to "sync the sound", "remove hiss", etc. Does anyone know of a program like that? From the description of it the program appears to be one I'd like to try. It spells it out in English, doesn't it? "Remove hiss". I like that! I understand what that means. This newbie gets totally lost when all you great experts talk about filters, bit rate changes, editing chapter by chapter, disabling one codec over another, etc. I'm not expecting retail DVD quality right now. But if you guys can point me to some easy to understand editing/fixing before converting proggies like I've just discussed, it would be greatly appreciated.
If you had not done this, try convert the avis into dvd compliant format with VSO DivxToDVD (free version), then burn to dvd with Nero: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_encoders/vso_divxtodvd_free.cfm Good luck!
Hi, And use Quality Media like Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim, Maxell {Made in Japan} And burn slow, 2x or 4x MAX and this will prevent you all the known Playback problems... Keep away from the junk media out there. (Media ID: [bold]CMC Mag.[/bold]) Media ID can be found in log files of most burning software. or by using tools like "DVD Indentifier" or "VSO Inspector v1.1"
