Xvid to dvdr

RetiredGreyFox · 21 Aug 2006 at 19:47

In the old days making a DVD was like watching paint dry and a labour of love.
You had to use about six different programs and it took at least nine hours to achieve results and sites like videohelp.com were very useful.
However, nowadays creating a DVD from files is a one click solution that programs like WINAVI and VSO ConvertXtoDVD do very well without anybodies help.
I'm surprised the Cinema Craft Encoder fanboys aren't in here yet either.

Van Hellseek · 22 Aug 2006 at 02:47

dmpoole said:
In the old days making a DVD was like watching paint dry and a labour of love.

I remember the days of it taking ~10 hours to encode 30minutes of footage. God that was tedious.

RetiredGreyFox · 22 Aug 2006 at 07:03

seek said:
I remember the days of it taking ~10 hours to encode 30minutes of footage. God that was tedious.

Same with encoding MP3's.
You'd go to bed and hopefully when you woke up in the morning it had done about 70% of a 60 minute CD

toy_soldier · 22 Aug 2006 at 12:18

How long ago was this :eek:

hominid · 22 Aug 2006 at 12:43

toy_soldier said:
How long ago was this

I think he was using a Babbage Difference Engine..

RetiredGreyFox · 22 Aug 2006 at 16:58

hominid said:
I think he was using a Babbage Difference Engine..

It wasn't that advanced

I always find it hard to date PC related stuff so I can't give a definite year or power of computer. It was when MP3's first hit the scene and the first DOS encoder was released and it took ages.

TomTomTom · 22 Aug 2006 at 17:53

AVS Video Tools is also a good and very simple to use app suite for (among many other things) converting to DVD. I haven't noticed any option or utility in it for adding menus. The evaluation version places a watermark banner at the top of the output.

alphaomega16 · 22 Aug 2006 at 18:43

vso divxtodvd free program and the earliest version is hte best I can send it to you if you want as the old version can be hard to find.

Richiev4 · 22 Aug 2006 at 19:09

Treat yourself to a new DVD player that supports Divx!! No encoding required!!

jbloggs · 22 Aug 2006 at 20:52

I suppose I might as well add my tuppence!

If you want no hassle programs, with average quality, either DVD Santa or WinAVI are for you.

However, if you want to retain good quality, TMPGEnc XPress3/4 then author the resultant MPEG2 with TMPGEnc DVD Author.

If you are using TMPGEnc XPress, make sure you find out first, by using GSpot what frame rate your Xvid video clip is, ie if it is 25 fps (PAL) - 29.97 or 23.976 fps (NTSC), and set the Output corresspondingly for DVD setting. Also sometimes TMPGEnc will not encode a Xvid/Divx file with an MP3 stream, so the MP3 stream needs to be removed from the XVid file, converted into .WAV and then fed into TMPGEnc Xpress as a separate audio stream, and then encode it.