DIVX / XVID to DVD Format???

[go4saket]

Hi Guys!

I have a few videos in DIVX and XVID format. I want to watch them in my TV but my DVD Player doesnt support either of the formats. Which is the bst software that can convert the same into DVD format without any quality loss.

Thankyou.

[celtic_druid]

XVID format?
Best software?
Without quality loss?

XviD is just a video codec. I guess you mean avi's?
See the rules about what is best.
DVD uses MPEG-2 for video which is lossy, therefor there will always be loss.
Lastly since you would be encoding to MPEG-2, I would think the MPEG-1/2 Encoding forum to be more appropriate.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

One set of procedures (other posters may/probably will suggest alternative methods) would be:

1) Use "TMPGEnc" (or "TMPGEncPlus") to convert the .AVI
(DivX-compressed or otherwise) to compliant MPEG2-for-DVD format - Use "TMPGEnc's" DVD wizard/template to accomplish this

2) Use "TMPGEnc DVD Author" v.1.6 (a different program than
"TMPGEnc") to easily create the required additional DVD files and structure (and chapters and a menu, if you wish)
You can obtain a FULLY functional free 30 day trial version of this commercial program at:

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tda16.html

**If the combined filesize of the DVD "package" written to your hard drive is greater than 4.37Gb, use DVD Shrink (or similar) to compress

If your O/S is either Win2000 or WinXP, TMPGEnc DVD Author can also burn your DVD. Otherwise, use NERO to burn in "DVD-Video" mode
(As an alternative to "TMPGEnc DVD Author", you could use
"DVDLab")


Let us know of your success ;>}

[aabxx]

Hi Guys!
I have a few videos in DIVX and XVID format. I want to watch them in my TV but my DVD Player doesnt support either of the formats. Which is the bst software that can convert the same into DVD format without any quality loss.
Thankyou.

If you value your time, this is my advice for you. For about what would amount to ~$20 in dollar, I recently bought myself a 10 meter long composite 3RCA cable + an s-video-composite adapter (for connecting to output of videocard) + an composite-3.5mm adapter (to connect white and red ends [the audio ends] of 3RCA-cable to soundcard speaker output) + composite-scart adapter (to connect to the telly). Sounds rather complicated at first but it's not really (I didn't know jack about cables yet I was able to buy these things on my own just by some internet searching). Will amount to same-ish quality as transcoding to DVD, but will save you a lot of time if you have enough videos that you wanna watch on the telly.

Of course, this means you won't be able to sit down on your PC at the same time, but if you're busy watching something on the telly chances are good you're not at the computer anyway ;) (of course, I'm implying you and only you use your computer... practice safe sex my friend, and don't let other people touch your computer(s)).

[CWR03]

You can actually have a movie playing on your TV screen from your PC and still use it normally with nVidia video cards. There is a setting within the software to play videos on one display only. ATI may have a similar setting, but I wouldn't know.

[mod]

ATI may have a similar setting, but I wouldn't know.
Yes, there is. You can send the output of the player only to tv and continue working on pc, just sending to taskbar the player.

[go4saket]

Ok guys, I have a XVID encoded AVI file. It's bitrate is about 850. Now, when I convert the same to DVD using TMPGEnc and keep the output DVD bitrate to be the same, the final output turns out to be horrible. Why is this so. When the bitrate is kept the same, I guess the quality should also be the same...

[celtic_druid]

1) You are re-encoding.
2) MPEG-2 is less efficient.
3) You are probably increasing the resolution.

What you want is simply not possible. You can't expect to keep the same size and quality.

[mod]

When the bitrate is kept the same, I guess the quality should also be the same...
No no no.
- you're re-encoding, and this causes quality loss, unless you use a really high bitrate (that you aren't)
- the bitrate required for mpeg2 is higher than the one needed for mpeg4 encoding, specially at low bitrates (as already said, less efficient)
I would consider the idea of aabxx if I was in you.

[setarip_old]

@go4saket

When using TMPGEnc, you should have, as I previously suggested, use "TMPGEnc's" DVD wizard/template.

If you had done so, you'd have seen that the video bitrate is set to 7,000Kbps...

[ricardo.santos]

there are lots of user friendly/freeware tools outhere with no need to go for commercial software:

avi2dvd, d2mp, avi2iso, avidemux, FAVC, diko, mkvmagic etc etc, all "heavelly tested by the community".

if you can afford it i suggest you make a donation to the authors of the above tools.