Advise for putting 4 avi episodes onto a DVD

[white_hew]

Looking for advise from someone with more experience.

What I want to do:
I have 4 avi files (30 minute episodes). I want to put them all on one DVD.


What I've done so far, that has caused a problem.
Ive run VirtualDUB and appeneded all 4 avi files to one big file = 2 hours.

The first episode is fine, except the next 3 the audio is out of sync.

My plan - Run virtualDUB (as mentioned) make one 2 hour avi file. Then run DVD2SVCD and make a DVD. Is this reasonable, or is there a better option?


Any advise please for those with experience.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

If you are you simply trying to burn the files, AS .AVI FILES, to a DVD, for playback on a standalone player capable of playing .AVI files, just burn them as individual files as a "data DVD".

The player will automatically display a basic menu that will allow you to select the episode you want to play...

[Nick]

If he's looking at using DVD2SVCD to make his DVD, he must be planning on converting to MPEG for standard DVD-Video.

@white_hew

FAVC does just what you're looking for. Give it a look.

If you have a specific desire to use DVD2SVCD for the encoding (eg for CCE support) then you might avoid sync issues setting the disc size to 1100 and converting the files individually. See the end of the FAQ for how to set up batch conversion of multiple AVIs.

However, DVD2SVCD cannot author a DVD from multiple MPEGs so you would have to set "No Images" in the Image tab and author the output manually in an authoring app.

I like TMPGEnc DVD Author. It has a free trial and is really easy to use but there are many solutions available.

[manolito]

In addition to what Nick recommended:

If you want to join your AVIs to one big AVI in Virtualdub without audio sync problems, you cannot use VDub's append function. Instead you have to make an Avisynth script file which will do a so called "Aligned Splice" to avoid audio sync problems.

Make a new text file in your editor and enter something like this:

AVISource("1.avi") ++ AVISource("2.avi") ++ AVISource("3.avi") ++ AVISource("4.avi")

Save the file with the AVS extension and load this file into VirtualDub. The sync problems should be gone now and you can save the file as a new AVI.

Cheers
manolito