Hello, I'm pretty much a n00b when it comes to DVD burning. I've spend countless hours already reading up on guides concerning DVD burning, converting, encoding, etc, and it makes my head spin. Anyways, I have a question in need of dire answering: I have two avi files, both part of the same video. I used the program EZJoiner to merge the two files as one, then used AVI2DVD to convert it into a DVD file. Then after the conversion process was completed, I used Daemon Tools to mount the DVD image that was produced by it just to check if everything turned out right. Instead of PowerDVD or Windows Media Player automatically booting up and playing the file like it should, all it does is take me to a folder containing the Video_TS and Audio_TS folders. I tried burning the image to a DVD-R anyways to see if it would work and obviously it didn't, wasting me another blank DVD. I'm not sure what the problem is. I've converted AVI files into DVD files before with AVI2DVD and was able to successfully load the movie from the image files produced by the conversion, but for some reason it won't work with these. I thought maybe I could just convert them seperately as they originally were (CD1 and CD2) instead of joining them and converting them, but I'm still getting the same problem. Any help on this matter would be appreciated greatly.
GODDAMMIT!!! I tried using ConvertxtoDVD and that program does the same damn thing as AVI2DVD!!! Both programs never produce an ISO image for me to mount or burn to a DVD. They have had no problem with any other movie but for this one they just don't work with it. Somebody please help me out with this, you have no idea how incredibly frustrating this, I have looked and researched all over the Internet and cannot find an answer to this. Every other problem concerning DVD converting has been addressed but this.
ConvertXtoDvd is not supposed to make a .iso-file, just the standard dvd-video files, like .ifo, .bup and so on. You should be able to burn them onto a dvd and watch that on a regular dvd player. I mean the video_ts and audio_ts folders.
First off why bother at all with mounting/creating an ISO. You do not need ISOs. Simply go into the VIDEO_TS folder and click the VIDEO_TS.IFO. Some players also have an 'Open or play from folder' option. This should play the DVD for checking. AVI2DVD will join multiple AVI files into one resultant DVD if you follow the correct naming (the program can be a bit quirky). Check the docs. You can also join the AVIs before hand with one of the VirtualDubMods (direct stream copy) or AVI-Mux GUI (which is what AVI2DVD uses). These 2 apps are a reliable and free way to join AVIs. You can open the joined file in GSpot to make sure the running time is correct.
Holy shit, that actually worked. Thank you so much. Now only question I have left is, do I just burn the Video_TS and Audio_TS folders and I'm good to go as far as playing it on a dvd is concerned?
More or less, just don't burn as DATA, you need UDF somewhere in the mix. With Nero Express you'd choose DVD-Video files. Or you could use the BUILD function in ImgBurn (free) which would create an ISO that ImgBurn could then burn. Or there's also a more direct method. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4632
