Burning video files to DVD

[BananJoe]

Hi,

My problem is that I have some video files that nero cannot read, but another program I have can read them fine.

When I try to burn them with Nero some of them lag really bad, and some of them show a black screen where you can only hear the audio.

What should I do?

[Gehenna]

What should I do?

Well,post some half decent information for starters..

Its all in the details ;) .. The more we know about the Video Files in question..the more we can help you

[BananJoe]

Okay.

Here's what GSpot told me about the files.

Video:

4CC: XVid
Runtime: 00:21:04 (30,296 fr)
Bitrate: 1017 kb/s
FPS: 23.976
Qf: 0.216 bits/pixel

Audio:

Name: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Bitrate: 133 kb/s (66/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.90.°
Fs: 48000 Hz

Stream Type and A/V interleave:

Type: OpenDML AVI
IMRR: 1.00
I/L: 1 vid frame (42 ms), p=480 Split: No

Comments / Metadata:

Code: ISFT
Name: Software
Contents: Virtualdub



It tells me that I have 2 compatible codecs installed for the video and 5 compatible codecs installed for the audio.

I hope this helps.

[setarip_old]

Hi!Name: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Bitrate: 133 kb/s (66/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.90.°Your problem is likely the result of having used VBR .MP3 when you originally created your .AVI.

I'd suggest you re-create your XviD-compressed .AVI, using CBR .MP3 instead...

[BananJoe]

I didn't create the original file, so.

I'd suggest you re-create your XviD-compressed .AVI, using CBR .MP3 instead...

How do I do that?

[CWR03]

You might start by re-reading the forum rules (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm) to which you agreed when you signed up to this forum, particularly #6. There's also this sticky (http://forum.doom9.org/announcement.php?f=6) located at the top of the Newbies sub-forum which further explains with which material we can and cannot help you.

Edit: Just found this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=53039). You've clearly been told before.

[BananJoe]

What's illegal about this?

[Gehenna]

So are these FILES encoded in the same manner? [Xvid & VBR].

When you say nero,i guess you are using Nero Vision?, do the files play okay in Showtime?

What program is able to open the files?

Im guessing these are episodic files based on the runtime

What's illegal about this?
Depends on how you obtained them

[BananJoe]

Yes, I am using Nero Vision.

No, they do not play in Showtime.

The program I use for playing them is called

VLC Media Player 0.8.5

[Airlik]

I've noticed the same problem. My brother processes his mini-DV home movie tapes into XViD and puts them on his ftp site for me to download. I had been throwing them into Nero Vision so our folks could watch them on DVD, but since upgrading to Nero 7 they've been coming over to my place to watch them in my office on my computer... let's say I find this less than convenient.

In the DVD output, the sound and video are way out of sync. I tried manipulating the output in VirtualDub, like converting the audio to uncompressed (he'd used VBR, which 'dub complained wasn't "proper"), splitting the sound off into an uncompressed .wav and letting Nero Vision merge it back in - nothing helped. I've asked my brother to try sending me a DivX file, but he doesn't want to pay for it when XViD is free. After reading this and another thread, I also tried looking for a Nero codec to try disabling in the list of video codecs, but there wasn't one listed in the device manager (other than standard windows, divx, and xvid ones - new XP install). I've sent Nero tech support extensive logs and system info, but so far all they've done is ask more questions about what I've tried (ironically they asked if I tried VirtualDub to split off the sound and let Nero re-combine them - which I had tried, but funny they'd ask me to try someone else's software to help fix the issue).

If anyone has any wisdom to share on it, I'd love to hear it as well.

[Airlik]

OK, just had a peek in Nero Recode, and when I went to see the vid in the preview window, the program made a network connection to Nero to check for a codec update, then proceeded to play the video in the same, out-of-sync way the DVD Nero Vision churns out does. I also noted it displayed the encoding as mp4 rather than xvid (which is correct to a point). Guess Nero ignores your installed codecs and goes for its own - anyone know how to change that behaviour?