angelleye
31st January 2004, 20:54
Ok...for a long time I've been using GKnot to do Divx encodes from DVD and saving to CD-Rs. Usually 2 disks. No problems what-so-ever.
I recently got an actual DVD burner (Plextor PX708A) and I'm having some issues. I still don't care about actually burning DVD (MPEG-2) video. I only wanted the DVD burner for higher capacity media.
So...I'm now using GKnot to encode my DVD backups at very high bitrates with AC3 audio and my final AVI is right around 4.5GB or so.
Here's where it gets interesting....GSpot won't read any of the information for these AVIs. I've read some things and figured out that AVIs aren't made for this...was told to use Matroska instead. So I installed that and saved with that format and I get the same results...however slightly smaller filesizes..??
Anyway, the AVIs and Matroksa files will play just fine...but I can't for the life of me get them to backup correctly to a DVD as data. I'm using Nero 6 and selecting DVD ISO and dragging over my AVI file and it reads it correctly...filling almost the entire DVD. It goes through and burns successfully..however when I put the DVD in, the AVI on the DVD is only registering about 70MB and will not play.
When I tried burning one of the Matroska files I get kind of the same result...only registers 70MB...but WILL play...however I can't seek through it at all.
This leads me back to GSpot where it tells me there's errors in the header of the AVI files and most likley will not play. They DO play just fine from the hard drive however. Is this header error the reason I'm having problems? If so, how do I fix it? If not...what do I do!?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I recently got an actual DVD burner (Plextor PX708A) and I'm having some issues. I still don't care about actually burning DVD (MPEG-2) video. I only wanted the DVD burner for higher capacity media.
So...I'm now using GKnot to encode my DVD backups at very high bitrates with AC3 audio and my final AVI is right around 4.5GB or so.
Here's where it gets interesting....GSpot won't read any of the information for these AVIs. I've read some things and figured out that AVIs aren't made for this...was told to use Matroska instead. So I installed that and saved with that format and I get the same results...however slightly smaller filesizes..??
Anyway, the AVIs and Matroksa files will play just fine...but I can't for the life of me get them to backup correctly to a DVD as data. I'm using Nero 6 and selecting DVD ISO and dragging over my AVI file and it reads it correctly...filling almost the entire DVD. It goes through and burns successfully..however when I put the DVD in, the AVI on the DVD is only registering about 70MB and will not play.
When I tried burning one of the Matroska files I get kind of the same result...only registers 70MB...but WILL play...however I can't seek through it at all.
This leads me back to GSpot where it tells me there's errors in the header of the AVI files and most likley will not play. They DO play just fine from the hard drive however. Is this header error the reason I'm having problems? If so, how do I fix it? If not...what do I do!?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!