I'm not a noob to the whole DVD backup process in the slightest, but I am a noob on taking an Xvid avi to DVD. I'm about to pull my hair out because none of the guides are really helping me get the quality that i'm looking for. I have a movie that came with 2 xvid avis with the ac3 encoded audio. I first tried to join the avis with VirtualDub but it tells me that it cant append the avi because they were encoded in two different audio bitrates. Ok, no problem. One of the guides tells me to extract the audio, which I did and made two 1Gb wav files out of them, along with 2 stripped avis. Nothing in the guide tells me how to put the audio back in at the same bitrate so I can join them. So, I took another route. AVI2DVD program. Apparently if you have the 2 files in the same exact directory named the exact same way movie1.avi and movie2.avi, AVI2DVD will automatically append the avi during its encoding process. Well, I let it go through its multiple pass encoding and when I woke up the next morning, only one avi made it in. Ok, so I took the WinAVI route. That went really slick and easy. But when I put the DVD into my player, the letterbox was grey instead of black (might be my TV, but thats never happened) and the movie studders every 1.5 seconds, at regular intervals. It was burned at 4x with DVD Decrypter on Taiyo Yuden 8x TY02 disks. So, with that LONG story summed up. Which guide can I follow to get two avis onto one DVD with a steady picture???? BTW, my burner is an NEC +-R with the latest flash and I use only high quality disks.
you are on the right path. let me get this right you want to put to avi files on a dvd so you can play the movie in your stand alone dvd player right? get the vso dvixtodvd there is a trial version works great in the trial mode you have this splash deal at the top of the converted movie but it is no all the way through the whole movie myself i can live with it open the program and add the file and let it do it's thing 700 mg file takes about 3 hours to convert. convert both avi files and don't let the program burn the files just yet cause you want to convert two files. after you convert both files open up shrink and do a reauther and search for your converted files they will be in the vso dvixtodvd program folder and click on both files and shrink will do it's thing and in no time you will have a dvd
Thanks, I'll give that program a try. You are correct, I want the movie to play in my DVD player for my TV.
hi there, Vso will NOT give you the quality you want. Download TheFilmMachine (from aD) and use either one of the free encoders, Quenc or HC, and let it go through the night. You will not be dissapointed. Your finished prduct will look flawless and i promise you wont ever use any other avi->dvd converter. If you need more help, feel free to post back here or PM me and I will continue to help. Edit: I missed the part where you are having problems with sound. Open up Virtual Dub and open the first .avi. Now go to Audio and set that mode to Full Processing mode and then go to video and set that to Direct Stream Copy. Now save that as a new .avi. Now close virtual dub and re open it and open the second .avi and follow the same instructions as the first. Now you should have two avis with the same audio bitrate (ac3) and then you can join them as usual using virtual dub. When you are done joining, throw it into The FilmMachine and let it go! Good luck!
try divxtodvd you need to name your files matrix cd1.avi and matrix cd2.avi in avi2dvd but with different bitrates I dont think it would be succesful
