I have downloaded a bunch of programs to convertt my avi files to dvd, my question is which is better, right now i only installed divx to dvd, which is very simple, i downloaded dvdsanta, 1click dvdmovie, winavi and a few others, which is ultimately the best?
also right now while using vsos program im noticing it creates a video folder but not audio? whats up with that, i've downloaded K-Lite codec Pack aswell and im still no seeing a audio folder
If you have an AVI file and want to create your own DVD, I'm using VSO DivxtoDVD which is quite fast and excellent, I recommend it.
They say The Film Machine and AVI2DVD are also excellent options. Both can handle subtitles although The Film Machine is a bit more polished and AVI2DVD a bit buggy (i've got AVI2DVD 0.2.9 beta)
In commercial programs WinAVI can convert your AVI file in half the time of DivxtoDVD's, and you can try it for 30 days I think.
The "best" doesn't include anything you've mentioned, especially WinAVI junk.
"Best" would be Canopus Procoder, and Sonic Scenearist or DVDLab Pro (IMHO).
You don't NEED an AUDIO_TS folder, although you can easily make an empty one if necessary. There's nothing in it anyhow.
What made you think that K-lite codecs would give you an AUDIO_TS folder on your compiled DVD?
you're 100% right. Maybe I wasn't clear, I was thinking myself about an "average joe" option for someone who's a newbie and not a pro. But if you wanna get serious (and spend some bucks by the way) those are the tools :o)
"Average Joe" should start with VSO divx to dvd.
Do not download anything you need to purchase yet. Most of the payware "one-click" tools are basically crap. This includes winavi and especially DVDSanta (which is at the very bottom of a long list).
When they want to advance, maybe Canopus Procoder Express, Mainconcept, CCE or the terribly slow TMPGEnc.
Combined with ReJig to author.
Once they have a handle on encoding properly, learning how to do audio separately, keeping sync, and PAL <-> NTSC conversions, then move on to DVDLab or TDA.
