A while back in the rippin' DVDs thread, someone mentioned Nero features an avi drag and drop feature and will author DVDs (meaning I can play them on a DVD player). I'm playing w/ that now, but it seems it wants vobs (and seperated audio and video at that) to make a DVD. Any help?
I wouldn't trust Nero for anything but actual authoring. You're better off using a good MPEG2 encoder like TMPGEnc or QuEnc/NuEnc, and using some program like DVD2SVCD (which can do AVI to DVD as well) for converting. Maybe the version of Nero you have doesn't have the MPEG2 encoder? Mine certainly doesn't (it's some form of Nero 6). But anyway, as I said, its MPEG2 encoder sucks eggs.
Whoops... thought I was in the off topic. Can one of the 30 mods move this? Zilog -- the long story short, I'm sending these to my missionary sister in the ass end of Europe. She's not a stickerly for quality, and I *AM* a stickler for time, so I'm looking for a drag and drop solution so long as it doesn't look like turd.
Oh, sorry. Well I don't know what magical version of Nero people are talking about but the one I have can't do any of that fancy jazz, and it seems you have the same one as me. Try out the 30-day trial of TMPGEnc anyway - at least you'll get MPEG2 video out of that,and it's got a nice wizard thingy so it's not that hard to set up - all you need is an AVI file, pretty much. Then you'll need something to put the m2v or mpeg or whatever into vobs - I don't know how to do that exactly - http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdauthoring.htm might help.
Wait until I get home, I will make a nice tutorial for you. You need Nero Vision Express installed, you may be missing this which is why it is asking for VOB files. Screw all this MPEG snobbery, as long as it's watchable who gives a shit what encoded it? I will do some screenshots as well showing the final encodes compared to the DivX as well just to lay this shit to rest.
Different MPEG encoders can be quite different, believe it or not. And you can make a big difference with AviSynth filtering and stuff compared to a direct encode, but then again you can never make it that much better than the source. I've been on the Doom9 forums too long to not *try* and make my videos look as good as possible! :-D Then again GaijinPunch is kinda in a rush, so it doesn't really apply here.
If you're in a rush you'll not want to be using Nero, since its MPEG-2 encoder was slow as fuck last I checked. TMPEG/whatever will be quicker.
Ok, here's a quick "OMG how fucking easy is this shit" walkthrough for making DVD's from avi's with Nero6 Choose make DVD from the wizard menu Click "add video" Choose your file(s) There's the .avi! Shite default menu Menu after a bit of customisation Quality settings (some of) Source screenshot DVD screenshot Obviously not the best video to showcase, but I'm buggered if I'm encoding a whole 2 hour film just to make a "how to"
Tachikoma -- thanks. I'll look for Vision Express. That's what I'm missing, and is why I couldn't do it in the first place I assume.
Well, it works. Very nice quality too. I even put 3 hours worth on one DVD which said it would drop in quality. Didn't drop that much. Cheers for the tutorial.
My pleasure mate, it's good because it's an all in one solution and the results (as you have seen) aren't that bad, even when you reduce the settings.
Oh who gives a shit as long as it works? I have messed around with all the packages mentioned before and the results "aint all that"
Meh, if you can't see the difference and Nero works then go for it. Just don't say the results aren't different, because you'd be wrong.
I didn't say I couldn't see the difference, it's just the difference isn't worth the extra effort IMHO I have always found TMPEGenc or whatever it's called horribly buggy, I used it for years, but gave up on it.
Ditto. Everyone that's recommending all these pain-staking methods over drag and drop must've not read the original thread. This shit ain't for me. It's for my missionary sister that will kill for ANY quality of the shows she wants to watch. I was asking for drag and drop for a reason -- b/c that's all the time I'm willing to commit. One last question though. Most of what I'm putting on the DVD is ripped from HDTV. When I play the DVD on my comptuer, there are nice bars, preserving the 16:9 aspect ration. When I play on my HDTV in normal 4:3 mode, it looks like shit (compressed). The TV's stretched mode looks 'normal' (IE - no stick people). As before, my sister is a missionary. Something tells me her TV is not HD. I don't have one to test on. Will she get the compressed version I wonder?
