need a media converter, burner program

[noneed4me2]

Hi i am looking for a program that can convert xvid, divx, avi files to a format that is suitable for burning to dvdr in NTSC format. If anyone can recommend software and a burner program other than Nero I would be grateful. Ideally i would like a burning program that can convert it on the fly; i used to do this with nero for vcd and svcd but nero doesn't seem to want to do it to dvdr. I don't care if its something i have to pay for, shareware or freeware. Mainly this is going to be for older pvr media files and downloaded tv eps i want to put on disk so my family can watch it on any dvd player that can read dvdr+-. Thanks in advance for any help. If there is a plugin for Nero I am not aware of could you provide a url for where i can get it, I am using an oem version of Nero so I am sure its missing some features.

 

[Steven B]

you looked into virtual dub? www.videohelp.com Will help you out a shitload.

 

[ShadowFlare]

Hi i am looking for a program that can convert xvid, divx, avi files to a format that is suitable for burning to dvdr in NTSC format. If anyone can recommend software and a burner program other than Nero I would be grateful. Ideally i would like a burning program that can convert it on the fly; i used to do this with nero for vcd and svcd but nero doesn't seem to want to do it to dvdr. I don't care if its something i have to pay for, shareware or freeware. Mainly this is going to be for older pvr media files and downloaded tv eps i want to put on disk so my family can watch it on any dvd player that can read dvdr+-. Thanks in advance for any help. If there is a plugin for Nero I am not aware of could you provide a url for where i can get it, I am using an oem version of Nero so I am sure its missing some features.

There is a seperate Nero program called Nerovision Express that can create DVD videos. BTW, what Nero version do you have? Most OEM distributions of Nero 6 or higher include Nerovision Express (although probably not with every little thing in it enabled).

 

[noneed4me2]

I have nero version 6.6.0.3, I have tried Power Video Converter but the quality after conversion was terrible. I tried Roxio easy media 8 and although it does conversion on the fly its quality is substandard also.

 

[ShadowFlare]

Well, you could try TMPGEnc together with TMPGEnc DVD Author. They are only 30 day trials, though, but I guess that's enough time to decide whether you want to buy them or not. I think the prices on those weren't really very high, IIRC. Those are what I use and they work fairly well. TMPGEnc makes great quality encodes for a program with that low of a price. BTW, if you already have a DVD authoring program that does not recompress videos that are already in MPEG-2 format, that will work just fine, too. (or if you can find another one)

With that encoder I've been able to get pretty good quality encodes even when I was trying to fit around 3 to 3.5 hours of video on one single layer DVD.

 

[Deleted member 3]

I'd recommend WinAVI.

 

[noneed4me2]

thanks everyone. i toyed around with TMPeng awhile back when i first started messing with encodes had a hard time getting to work right in windows me, i will go back since i got XP now and give it a whirl again. i have been reading up on WinAVI and going to try that too. Thanks for all the info.

 

[noneed4me2]

A banjoman i picked up WinAVI it is great its just what i was looking for thanks a million. Conversions are real fast, done in an hour or less on a 700mb file and the built in burner was great too. Other converters i tried took hours and i thought my system was better than that, then bam, WinAVI knocks it out of the park. Worth every penny.

 

[forkart]

I recommend you to use yasa avi to mpeg converter. It can convert avi to most popular videos format. and it is much quick.

http://www.yasasoft.com/yasaavitompeg/

 

[Aevum]

VirtualDUB, takes practice and time, but basicly, it converts any video/audio codec you have installed on your mother to whatever other codec you have installed,
multiformat encoder, just encode to mpeg2 with NTSC framerate (29.9fps) with the dvd resolution (not sure what it is right now), and then use nero to burn it to DVD, nero makes the disc directory and header stracture, and i think it even does menus if you want,

the encoder included with nero, is a bit, simple and automatic, most of the times, it will give OK quality, but sometimes, a bit of tweaking and a bit of fine tunning will give you much better quality.

btw, heres a secret, with the exception of framerate (25fps pal, 30fps NTSC), on DVD theres no differance between pal and NTSC, in analog transmision, NTSC and pal have different image and audio sync frequencies, so playing a ntsc tape on a pal VCR or the other way around would get you garbled sound and the image would jump around, unviewable,

but since mpeg2 is a digital format and has its own sync mechanism, its not subjected to the same sync mechanism which depending on frequency, frame size, and framerate, would be PAL, NTSC or SECAM.

thats why the DVD region codes were introduced, without the PAL VS NTSC VS secam issue, someone could buy from the states a DVD for a movie which is still in the cinemas somewhere like Australia or spain, also, if a DVD costs 9,95 in the states, what would stop someone in germany where a DVD costs around 14 euros (18 bucks) from ordering it from the states,

btw, noticed that since internet P2P software has become popular, cinema movies come out in DVD (legaly) alot quicker ?, use to take almost a year, now 3 months after its in the cinema, you can buy the DVD, plus, countries which use to wait between 6-18 months for the movie to open there after the US theater opening, now a movie opens in the states, 3-4 months later you can probobly see it in a theater in upbutt creak russia.