Jasper
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| posted on 6/6/08 at 05:16 PM |
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AVI to DVD software
I need some software to convert .avi files to something I can burn to DVD to watch on the TV.
I've tried a couple of free ones but they either crash or won't run.
Can anybody recommend a good one?
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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UncleFista
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| posted on 6/6/08 at 05:18 PM |
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I use DVDsanta, simple and has yet to let me down 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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snapper
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| posted on 6/6/08 at 05:20 PM |
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Roxio Toast 9 or 10 i belive will do the job or the much more expensive ProCoder which will do just about anything to anything
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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Jasper
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| posted on 6/6/08 at 05:25 PM |
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Thanks chaps - DVD santa on it's way 
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Mr G
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| posted on 6/6/08 at 05:27 PM |
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ConvertXtoDVD - Is'nt free but then that's never stopped people before
Converts roughly anything you chuck at it
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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The Baron
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| posted on 6/6/08 at 05:34 PM |
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I swear by WinAvi
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Davros
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| posted on 6/6/08 at 09:31 PM |
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I use DVD Flick seems to work for me OK
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Jasper
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| posted on 7/6/08 at 09:00 AM |
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Tried DVDSanta last night, seemed to encode to DVD fine and burn the disk, but still wouldn't play in my player (reasonable quality Yamaha one,
so not a Tesco's cheapy).
I'll try one of the other ones.....
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Jasper
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| posted on 7/6/08 at 10:55 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
Tried DVDSanta last night, seemed to encode to DVD fine and burn the disk, but still wouldn't play in my player (reasonable quality Yamaha one,
so not a Tesco's cheapy).
I'll try one of the other ones.....
Well ConvertXtoDVD looked simple to use, but wouldn't recognise any blank DVD I put in my recorder....
WinAvi seems to be doing the job ok, yet to test it on my DVD player though..... sure I'll get there.
Am I write in presuming that they will not be an Dolby Digital surround sound from a .avi file?
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 7/6/08 at 11:06 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
Tried DVDSanta last night, seemed to encode to DVD fine and burn the disk, but still wouldn't play in my player (reasonable quality Yamaha one,
so not a Tesco's cheapy).
I'll try one of the other ones.....
Well ConvertXtoDVD looked simple to use, but wouldn't recognise any blank DVD I put in my recorder....
WinAvi seems to be doing the job ok, yet to test it on my DVD player though..... sure I'll get there.
Am I write in presuming that they will not be an Dolby Digital surround sound from a .avi file?
You can encode AC3 into an AVI, but most of them will be just standard two channel sound.
ConvertX2DVD has worked on everything I have thrown at it, but I've not always been impressed with the quality afterwards. Far better to get a
player that can play Xvid/DivX files directly as you always get some quality loss when converting files, and the players are dead cheap these days.
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