Howto convert divx to a usable dvd ?

AFAIK, you have to put the chapter breaks in yourself. My friend used to make DVDs for TV eps. 6 eps per DVD, simple menu. Choose Episode, then Play, or choose "chapter". His idea of a chapter was 0 mins, 10 mins, 20 mins. hehe

 

If compression isn't too great on DIVX in first place best and fastest thing to do is

1. Use MainConcept to convert DivX to MPEG-1 (faster than other app to do this and does it suprisingly well)

2. Use TMPGEnc DVD Author to create your DVD with MPEG-1 files. No need for pointless conversion/inlfating to MPEG2 . One of the only apps to support this (authoring DVD from MPEG1 files). You can get about *4* hours out of one DVD like this.

 

Seriously? MPEG-1? Why, when MPEG-2 is obviously the better codec (ie better compression and smaller filesize)?

 

I've heard many a time that Nero's MPEG encoding is god-awful. I'd recommend TMPGEnc or QuEnc (which is amazingly good for an MPEG1/2 encoder that's free!). For conversion I'd recommend AviSynth - it's the best video processing thingy around, but it does require writing scripts - not for the faint-hearted! DVD2SVCD, depsite its name, can also be used for AVI-to-DVD conversions, and works great (but you'll need a decent encoder like TMPGEnc or CCE). It comes with pretty much everything you'll need, though as I've only used it for making SVCDs I don't know how it authors DVDs, if it does - Nero's fine for authoring.

Oh, and www.doom9.org has some great guides on this kind of stuff. Try www.videohelp.com too

 

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i am not a missionary but i like to help people too and fight for the human rights

 

vision express says i need a codec liscense, hmm.. well i did get this nero 6.3 ultra off of p2p, maybe the liscense was in the unzipped bundle now that i think about it, brb i suppose.

edit: ok, i put in the serial number but nothing happened. i have to go look at an appartment now though, anyone?

 

As I said, I've heard nothing but badness about Nero's MPEG encoding. Get TMPGEnc, Canopus ProCorder, CCE, QuEnc or NuEnc (both free) or anything else instead.

 

Get the Smacker Video tools. Can't remeber the URL, but search google for "Bink and Smacker" or "Rad Video tools." Free, and it gives you pretty wide contol over how to convert your video.

Only problem I've had with it is in converting quicktime to avi, which seem to come out fucked up. But for everything else it works great.