Please recommend me a video/vcd converter that doesnt create sync problems!?

gizmo1990 · 30 May 2007 at 21:21

Right I'm fed up with having to watch divx/xvid tv episodes on my pc. I'd much rather convert them to vcd format and watch em on the telly.

So my question is can anyone recommend me some software to buy that will do this in as simple a way as possible? And here's the difficult part, will do so by not fu*king up the audio visual sync as well!!??

I don't want to faff about creating menus and such like. I just want to select the file I want converted, have it converted so that it will fit on a standard cd and then burn it.

Any help appreciated.

jbloggs · 31 May 2007 at 01:35

Try SUPER in the Video/DVD Editing/Encoding/Video Streaming Tools section.

VCD is quite a low quality, you might be better converting Divx/Xvid->MPEG2->DVD Video files->burn onto DVD, for this use TMPGEnc 3/4 Xpress + TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5/1.6/2.0, this software will give very good quaility DVD Video Files, however TMPGEnc will convert into VCD/SVCD.

Or you could try VSO ConvertXtoDVD, WinAVI, DVD Santa, Nero Vision Express 3 etc.

Of all of above software I have used the (Pegasys) TMPGEnc products extensively and have found them very good.

gizmo1990 · 3 Jun 2007 at 18:14

Thanks for the reply jbloggs.

I've used TMPGEnc in the past and found that the resulting file had audio sync problem. This was a long time ago tho maybe its better now? Also, my goodness! TMPGEnc is expensive!!

Could anyone tell me how convoluted the process of using TMPGEnc is now?

As I said I want a process as simple as possible. I'm also not really interested in quality. I just want to watch tv eps on my telly instead of the pc.

bledd · 3 Jun 2007 at 18:15

winavi
convertxtodvd

basmic · 3 Jun 2007 at 18:44

bledd. said:
winavi
convertxtodvd

The two I would highly recommend, also.

Energize · 3 Jun 2007 at 19:05

Just buy a divx dvd player.

And why would you want to convert them to awful vcd quality instead of dvd? :confused:

gizmo1990 · 3 Jun 2007 at 20:37

Thanks for the replies guys.

Ooh I really like that convertxtodvd program!

Tell me tho why would I need to use winavi when convertxtodvd seems to do it all?

SexyGreyFox · 3 Jun 2007 at 21:04

Energize said:
Just buy a divx dvd player.

Thats what I did and now I've got 3 in the house.
They cost from about £30 upwards.

basmic · 3 Jun 2007 at 21:15

gizmo1990 said:
Thanks for the replies guys.

Ooh I really like that convertxtodvd program!

Tell me tho why would I need to use winavi when convertxtodvd seems to do it all?

ConvertX seems to produce higher quality output than WinAVI. Whereas WinAVI is quick at converting (average of about 30 mins for full movie).

Don't get me wrong, WinAVI is good - so good, I used until I used ConvertX.

gizmo1990 · 3 Jun 2007 at 21:47

I actually own winavi but when I want to burn stuff to dvd it just opens up nero, which doesn't let me burn dvds without upgrading? I don't want to do this as nero seemed to introduce sync issues again when I tried their 30 day trial version.

Have I got something wrong and winavi can actually burn dvds/vcds itself once its converted files?

re, divx dvd players. I actually own one but it doesn't play things back very well. Sync issues occasionally and stops altogether after about 30 mins. In my experience I've yet to see a stand alone player which plays all divx files perfectly...

Lonewolf · 3 Jun 2007 at 22:11

gizmo1990 said:
I actually own winavi but when I want to burn stuff to dvd it just opens up nero, which doesn't let me burn dvds without upgrading? I don't want to do this as nero seemed to introduce sync issues again when I tried their 30 day trial version.

Have I got something wrong and winavi can actually burn dvds/vcds itself once its converted files?

re, divx dvd players. I actually own one but it doesn't play things back very well. Sync issues occasionally and stops altogether after about 30 mins. In my experience I've yet to see a stand alone player which plays all divx files perfectly...

If your DivX is stopping during playback and you have sync issues its probably due to the file being poor. If on the other hand you encode the DivX to DVD format using either, WinAvi or ConvertXtoDvd then the quality is going to be that much smoother (usually)

jbloggs · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:13

gizmo1990 wrote:

I've used TMPGEnc in the past and found that the resulting file had audio sync problem

This is something I rarely experienced (in the output MPEG2 file), and if the source file was out of sync, there is a facility in both TMPGEnc 3/4 XPress and TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 to correct this.

If you were getting a lot of problems with out of sync audio, either in the encoded files or playing them back on a standalone Divx player, I would suggest that the main reason for this is what has been suggested by Lonewolf:

...its probably due to the file being poor...

bledd · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:21

gizmo, use winavi to do the converting, then use imgburn in build mode to do the video_ts folder