Best App for burning movies on DVD's

[BZ]

Well, I have a LG DVD Writer, and want to burn some movies on there, and Nero has been a bitch about it, and I'm looking for an alternate program. Does anybody have any recommendations? I need a program that I could burn .avi or mpeg movies on my DVD's thanks.

[Jackal]

Nero's been a bitch? How so? It's the best program I've used to date. (And I've used quite a few.)

With every other program (converting .avi to DVD format), I've had unsynced movies. Each and every time. Nero is the ultimate tool to convert the movies.

[BZ]

I've been using Nero Express, and it kept on crashing on me, I've wasted quite some time doing it. I've tried searching for an alternative on the internet, but couldn't find one.

[Jackal]

Well if you're looking for an all in one converter, click below.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=35#35

[BZ]

nice, thanks alot Jackal

[hipn]

I use Nero 7 Ultra Edition, and the DVD Burning option. pretty good imo.

[Username123]

WinAvi to convert the avi. files into DVD format. Winavi also has the 6 channel feature, which is great if you have a surround sound system. Then i use Nero to burn the vob files. Everything works perfectly.

[Andrew]

I've got an LG as well. It came with CyberLink PowerProducer Gold, I find that does the job.

[Cameron]

Hey just wondering, when you buy a dvd of tv shows in stores, about how many episodes fit on one dvd? I've downloaded a legal series of tv shows and I can barely fit half a season on a dvd using ep, and was wondering if I was doing something wrong.

[hipn]

I don't know, but I tried putting a couple of recorded epuisodes of somthign onto 1 DVD and only about 3 fit onto it...so I guess around 3-4 becuase each season usually has around 20 episodes.

[Big-D]

It probably not nero. It might be a hardware problem. Do you have a decent graphics card and ddr memory. They play a big part in encoding videos.

[BZ]

I have a eVGA 6600GT 256MB vid card with 1gb of DDR2 667mhz memory, which I think should more than capable enough.

[Big-D]

I have a eVGA 6600GT 256MB vid card with 1gb of DDR2 667mhz memory, which I think should more than capable enough.

Yes that should do it. What kind of problems?
If the problem is burning try encoding to an image or dvd and then burning.

[BZ]

well, it burns halfway, and then the nero just crashes...happened 5 times already. but i'll try powerproducer gold, see if it works.

EDIT: Okay, something wrong's here... I've just restarted my comp, and go to my computer, and notice that my CD Drive and DVD Drive icons have disappeared and I can't access them either. My floppy is still there, along with my Daemon tool drives, but my actual CD Drive and DVD Drive icons are gone... I've restarted as well, and they're STILL gone.

[Fitzy]

i use a program called VSO, its really good

[benji]

VSO 0.5.2.99 for .avi to dvd. DVD Shrink to build an ISO as I don't like file folders. DVD Decrypter to burn the DVDs.

Shrink/Decrypter do about 95-98% of all my DVD related work.

Alcohol 120% for some burning, data discs mainly, sometimes Nero as it's the default on Windows "what do you want do with this blank DVD?"

For taking an .avi and putting it on a DVD I use VSO/DVDShrink/Decrypt. Usually fit 8-9 22 minute episodes (half-hour tv shows...i.e. Futurama, The Office, etc.) and about 4-5 44 minute ones (hour tv shows...Firefly, Lost, etc.) depending on the quality. Roughly 1.5GB of .avi files will be the amount that fills a DVD4.3 after conversion.

If you look at a commerical DVD of a TV show, they often have 6-8 episodes on half-hour series, 4-5 on hour ones per disc. Depends on the special features they include. Some series use DL discs, so they can put entire 13 episode seasons on one disc. Really depends on who's doing the discs.

[Dean]

Well i use Nero 7.something, and i got it with all the addons and stuff. I just use that with Nero Vision, works perfectly. PM me if you are "looking" for it

[BZ]

Thanks for all the help guys, but yeah, after converting with WinAVI I could actually burn the DVDs now.

[BOSS]

DVDSHRINK

[Fitzy]

ive got a question, sometimes when i burn an AVI to a DVD using these programs and play it on my dvd player, some of the darker colours look pixelated? is this because of the rip or maybe the aspect ratio or something?

[BOSS]

AVI to DVD = DVDSanta

[Jackal]

ive got a question, sometimes when i burn an AVI to a DVD using these programs and play it on my dvd player, some of the darker colours look pixelated? is this because of the rip or maybe the aspect ratio or something?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but here goes...

That happens because of the video compression. A good quality .avi is usually a DVD Rip. Meaning they took a 1.5+ GB video in VOB format and shrunk/compressed it to what usually comes down to 700MB. Due to the compressing of the video, some video quality is lost, in this case the dark areas look pixelated and/or patchy.

It has nothing to do with the aspect ratio, then it'd either look stretched or squeezed together or square etc.

[Username123]

I just burned 2 movies just a while ago using "ConvertXtoDVD". The program also converts the avi files, it also gives you an option to make a crappy menu. Although the program is pretty good, but it cant burn 5.1 Sound. Other than that, its a good problem. 2 Thumbs Up

[Jackal]

Other than that, its a good problem

Completely agree.

[Fitzy]

ive got a question, sometimes when i burn an AVI to a DVD using these programs and play it on my dvd player, some of the darker colours look pixelated? is this because of the rip or maybe the aspect ratio or something?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but here goes...

That happens because of the video compression. A good quality .avi is usually a DVD Rip. Meaning they took a 1.5+ GB video in VOB format and shrunk/compressed it to what usually comes down to 700MB. Due to the compressing of the video, some video quality is lost, in this case the dark areas look pixelated and/or patchy.

It has nothing to do with the aspect ratio, then it'd either look stretched or squeezed together or square etc.

i think your right, so theres really nothin i can do to stop it then?