I have downloaded the popular xvid avi files form torrents of all the Prison Break Episodes. I would like to watch them on my Sony TV (non HDTV). I have a Panasonic 5 disc player that accepts SVCD, VCD and DVD but not Divx. I have read through the forums but am still confussed. I have Nero 7 (Nero Express included). I also have dvdshrink, dvddecrypter, Roxio Media Creator 8. What is the best way to get these to play on my dvd player and the best quality from teh source material. They look great on my computer...just don't want to lose much PQ. 1 -3 episodes per DVD is fine with me...or just one on a DVD if thats all that is possible. I woudl like the easiest way possible.
Thanks so Much
I'm afraid you need an 'authoring' application. If you look in http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ , under DVDR: DVDR authoring and burning you can see that there are many ways to author a DVD containing movies (even (S)VCD movies , with DVD Lab).
I'm afraid Nero does not 'author' DVDs. It just puts a movie into a DVD (for instance, if you give it a VCD movie, it encodes it to a 730x480/576 movies using such a bitrate to fill all the DVD-R.
My suggestion is to convert those Xvid movies to a mpeg format which resembles the input movies' resolution (converting a 500x300 AVI file into a 720x480/576 M2V movie > 3000 kbps is a waste of time. Converting them to a 2000-2500 kbps 480x480/576 movie will be enough).
After you converted those movies, author a DVD with it. What about buying some authoring application, like DVD Lab?
Well i did try to do one episode with Nero Vision. Said it would transcode one episode (about 1.5gb) on the disc. Allowed me to create a menu and thumbnail. I odn't mind buying any software if it will give me good PQ on teh finished product. I guess this will take some time since it said 55 minutes to transcode and burn one episode on to a DVD+R. I will look at DVD lab...
Am I wrong in assuming Nero will author my dvd for me then? Seems liek ti was ready to do the encoding til I aborted it.
Yes, Nero will do it for you.
But you have to take care that it doesn't try to 're-encode' your movie. This happens only if you input him some movie 'off specifications' i.e. an AVI, a (S)VCD movie or a mpeg movie non compliant to your system (PAL/NTSC).
The Nero's problem is it is not one of the best encoders available, so:
- Nero is OK if you input it a DVD movie compkliant with your TV system;
- Nero is lame if you input it someting different.
For instance, can you put three episodes (3*1.5 GB < 4.7 GB) on a DVD?
