Hey all I've got several movies that i've obtained, and I'm wanting to burn to DVD for use on a standard DVD player. The files are .avi, and when imported into Nero, I'm greeted with a progress bar that says it will take 4+ hours to encode/convert/burn them. I calculated, that for what i have to burn, It will take approximatly, 32 hours, way to long I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good alternative piece of software that could create these discs much faster than 4+ hours per disc? Also I've heard that having a divx enabled dvd player would allow me to simply burn the files as a data disc, which could then be read by the divx player? Ryan
Probably the quickest way is to go out and buy the movies. 4 hours seems like a long time, it would probably take less time than that. Try letting one complete; the initial estimates for file conversions/ripping are usually rather high, but will drop a short while after the process has started.
I've never used nero and don't have experience with divx, but in my experience, burning a movie to dvd takes about 8 or so hours. That includes encoding, building menus and the actual burn (which took about an hour on my old 1x burner for 4.7gb). I use Sonic DVDit. I'm assuming not building the menus would shorten the time but the actual encode time still takes forever for me, which is why I do it either over night or while I'm at work.
I got a divx dvd player from the last black friday and its pretty nice but a little picky about what media is used. You can find them at best buy, target, and maybe even walmart for around 80 bucks or so; some even have a usb port so you can just plug in a flash or hard drive with no burning involved at all.
If you want speed over quality, then turn off 2 pass encoding. Burning a DVD only takes me about 2 hrs (full 4.7gb) although I do have a Core 2 Duo
Heh, wish i could, what i have cant be found on dvd, Its a bunch of tv only mini series that were never released on disc/tape I see that a local store (futureshop) has a divx player for 60 bucks, probably easier to just buy that and use that instead Question though, with a divx player, should i just burn the disc as a data disc, or is there some other thing i need to do? Ryan
Just burn it with the AVI on the CD and it will play. You can get Phillips and Toshiba DIVX players now though, so shop around. You don't need to go for a non-branded one.
Yea, it was a phillips one for 60 bucks, however, this may be the time to get a region free dixv player lol Ryan
For sure, and usually they can be made to be region free if you google the model number Edit: There is a new model Phillips coming out soon that also upscales DVDs. I don't have a link for it presently, but it might be worth looking about. It was in the ~$50 price range and I have short listed it to go with my new HDTV!
