Burning DivX or xvid to DVD-R?

[MDesigner]

I'd like to know how to convert DivX and xvid movies to a suitable format to burn using TMPGEnc DVD Author. Any help is appreciated.. thanks!

[bond]

read the rules, read the guides, use the search function

[MDesigner]

OK, I was loading the file into TMPGEnc, but was getting no audio. I got sound in VirtualDub but it was out of sync. so I set audio delay to 1000ms, and am saving to AVI. This seems to have fixed the out of sync prob, and hopefully it will now get sound into TMPGEnc.

[MDesigner]

Having more trouble with this.

So I have an xvid avi file. I open it in VirtualDub, and simply set the audio delay to 1000ms (there's a 1sec delay between audio/video). This works just fine. Problem is, i'm not sure how I should save the avi. What kind of compression should I use? I made the mistake of forgetting to set the compression so it just dumped it uncompressed and I had a 34GB file :)

Any suggestions? This is going to be burned on DVD-R using TMPGEnc DVD Author.. so I can watch the clips on my DVD player.

Thanks

[manono]

Hi-

All you want to do is to adjust the Delay? Then don't recompress at all. Set Video to Direct Stream Copy, set the Delay in Audio->Interleaving, and save it to another name. And I'd use VDubMod for this, and not VDub, if the audio is VBR MP3. And in that case, go Streams->Stream List->Right Click on the Audio->Interleaving and set the Delay. Then File->Save As, and give it another name and wait a minute or 2.

[MDesigner]

Great, this works fine... and in the first couple mins of playback, the audio is fine.. but as it plays, it slowly becomes out of sync. How can this be possible? Unless the framerate is too slow? What should I do?

Thanks a ton for your help!

[manono]

Hi-

What should I do?

Don't use Virtual Dub for this. Use either NanDub or Virtual Dub Mod. And don't downsample.

[MDesigner]

Yep, using VirtualDubMod for this already. What's downsampling and how do I avoid doing it?

[manono]

Hi-

What did you do, allow VDubMod to rewrite the Audio Header? Just hit No when it gives you that stupid message. Otherwise try NanDub for adjusting the Delay, and except for changing the Delay, leave the Interleaving and Preset at default (for MP3).

Downsampling is converting the audio from 48 KHZ to 44.1 KHZ or something even lower. It's been known to cause asynch.

If the Audio just had a consistent Delay, and all you did was to adjust the Delay, and you Direct Stream Copied the Audio and Video, it's impossible for you to develop a progressive audio asynch.

If you do have progressive asynch, you can either adjust the video's Framerate in Video->Framerate->Change to xx.xxx. Or you can extract the Audio and adjust it in a WAV Editor. Either way is a real PITA, though. But none of this should be necessary if the movie was ripped properly in the first place.

[MDesigner]

YOu rule! Not rewriting the header was the trick.. and after screwing around by trial & error, I figured out the audio delay was approx 800ms. Thanks!!

[manono]

You're welcome. Glad it worked out.

[MDesigner]

Sorry man...one last thing

Now I'm trying to author using TMPGEnc DVD Author. I try to add the video file and i get this:

*The video GOP is too long.

The video GOP is too long.
For a standard DVD it is necessary that the GOP fulfill the following condition:

Max 36 fields (18 frames) (NTSC format only)
Max 30 fields (15 frames) (PAL format only)

I'll try going into TMPGEnc and setting the max frames to 18 under GOP Settings and see if that fixes the problem. It was set to 0 (unlimited).

[MDesigner]

That did the trick... 18 frames.

Last issue: the final mpeg-2 clip is a little over 1GB. The original movie was around 300MB. Given, the original was xvid compressed, true. So is the mpeg-2 clip large because it's essentially been uncompressed? Any suggestions on cutting down the size to around 500MB or so?

[manono]

Hi-

You'll need a bitrate calculator. See if this (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Calcs/DVD-RCalc.zip) will do the job. I'm not really sure, since I don't make DVD-Rs. Evidently TMPGEnc has one built in. This guide (http://www.polarhome.com:793/~afonic/tmpegenc.htm) which you might find useful anyway, even though it's for PAL, shows a picture of the built in bitrate calculator about 2/3 of the way down. Here's a bunch more Guides (http://www.dvdrhelp.com/guides?tools=&madeby=&formatconversionselect=AVI+to+DVD&osselect=&howtoselect=%3B&search=Search+or+List+Guides).

[MDesigner]

Hmm, now the output video has no audio at all.. very strange. The source movie does.

Aaarrrghhh!

[b00zed]

You need to feed TMPG a seperate audio file.