Ho!
I wish to convert .avi files to DVD - is that the same as MPEG2? - and would like to find a free tool to do so.
Any suggestions much appreciated. Level of knowledge 
low so please use short words 
:cheers:
I will watch this thread with interest - I invested in a dvd writer just before Christmas and now I want to burn some of my home moviea camcorder stuff onto dvdā¦ and no, itās not rudey stuff!
Indeed. One of the reasons I justified the new computer was capturing and burning old VHS camcorder footage to DVD. Using Nero to capture directly to DVD format has not given great results. When I capture in uncompressed .avi format the quality is heaps better. I thought perhaps if I captured the footage like that, then converted it using something else I might get better results. Hence my questionā¦
If it were a digital camcorder it would be much simpler I thinkā¦
erm ā¦ not too sure (memory loss due to lack of alcohol thismorning) ā¦ but I think I used Nero 6 to convert and burn (in the same session) a couple of avi. files to dvd.
Quality remained on par with the avi. and sound was in sync too ā¦ always a bonus lmao
yo i believe i have a solution
there is a movie maker file that microsoft have brought out that has a āfree TRAILā on ares or KAZAA of you download it i believe it also has a conversion tool when saving your home movies or other audio or visual files
if it works notify me
Nero 6 with vision express pluginā¦works great and is simple to use
Thanks peeps - a few things to play with there. I am also trying Roxio which is like Nero only different - it seems to go better for me so I might stick to that for nowā¦
I use Nero and Sonic MyDVD. DVD Shrink for Copy of DVDāsā¦Sonic is the industry leaderā¦they are the guys the movie companies use. The Bit rate on AVI contains far more data then MPEG anything. MPEG4 is out and it is very tight on size valuesā¦similar to DIVX Codec. I use MPEG 2 on my ATI AIW 7500 and have very little issues with VCR to DVDā¦The VCR is poor anyway at DATA conversionā¦not a lot of data 8 Bitāsā¦DVD, Mini DVD or Hi8 format is 16Bit or betterā¦ok back to coding and making livingā¦Neal get DVD Shrink 3.2 and Sonic Series 6ā¦great stuff M8ās
DaViDeo - DivX, MPEG4, lots of CD and DVD formats icl. Max formats
seems hard to find in english 
[QUOTE=ike;266234]Ho!
I wish to convert .avi files to DVD - is that the same as MPEG2? - and would like to find a free tool to do so.
Any suggestions much appreciated. Level of knowledge low so please use short words
:cheers:[/QUOTE]
DVD contains VOB files. VOB files are MPEG2 + other informations in video stream.
Holy thread revival batman.
In fact itās more like grave digging and some black magic to reincarnate.
5 years+
Link spam - in-fact recognise the name iāve banned it elsewhere before.