DivX to DVD

[jambo]

I recently bought a Lite-On DVD-RW drive.

One of the main reasons for doing so, was so i could convert and burn DivX movies onto DVD's and watch them on my lovely 32" TV downstairs (without the hastle of lugging my PC around the house).

I've tried a few apps (Adobe EnCore, Adaptec ShowBiz, etc.), but I cant find a single one that will do this conversion in under 6 hours! I expected 2 tops.

I've got an Athlon XP 2000+ (I know Intel CPU's are better for the job), 512 DDR, and a 7200RPM HDD.

Am I asking too much?

[Salted_Chipmunk]

It takes my mate, around 45 min an ep to encode simpsons to the quality that he wants, whole season to a dvd, He has a p4 2.6
2 gig of ram

Still takes a fair bit of time to do, he has switched programs numerous times, i will find out what he is using.

[jambo]

Cheers,

but it seems that he's getting about the same performance as me (a simpsons ep is 22 mins, and it's taking him 45 on a 2.6Ghz CPU).

The reason I'm puzzled, is that encoding from a DVD to DivX (i.e. the other way round) takes me about 3 hours. And DivX uses far higher compression.

[jambo]

bump :rolleyes:

[sagit]

oi! no bumping. just be patient.

anyway, use ulead dvd moviefactory or go and find the specs for dvd (ie mpeg2, 720x576, etc...) and use an avi to mpg prog to do it and then set up appropriate dvd structure with nero or something and burn

:D

[jambo]

Originally posted by sagit
oi! no bumping. just be patient.

Sorry :p

I'd love to be able to do all my encoding using VirtualDub. But I cant find a compatible MPEG2 codec on the net.

Any suggestions?

BTW: Thanks for your help guys.

[Jaz]

The best (within practical reason) is generally recognised to be TMPGenc. It is slow for me too. mpeg encoding takes longer than divx encoding.

visit Doom9 (www.doom9.org) for some helpful guides.

[hazza]

Do dis..

Divx to MPG

Then burn the mpg in ur dvd burning software.

That should convert it to mpg2 and save time.. i dunno.. mebbe.. or just burn the mpg's as "files" on the dvd, then no converting will be needed.

[jambo]

Cheers guys,

Yea Doom9 is good. TMPGenc crashes on my system :(

But I'm not interested in more and more methods of encoding at the same speed.

[sagit]

Originally posted by jambo
Sorry :p

I'd love to be able to do all my encoding using VirtualDub. But I cant find a compatible MPEG2 codec on the net.

Any suggestions?

BTW: Thanks for your help guys.

suggestion: dont try to use virtualdub for avi to mpg. its only for mpg/whatever to avi.

tmpgenc does avi to mpg, but that mpeg2 encoder is hard to find

[jambo]

Right, case closed.

I'm now using 'Ulead DVD Movie Factory'. It encodes at about 25fps (1:1 ratio).

Cheers for your help guys ;)

[DrDivad]

also, if your divx movie is under 700mb make it VCD, save wasting a whole DVD, and since all your quality is lost in DivX anyway.......

[jambo]

Yes... but:

1. I have DVD-RW's
2. Some (mine inc.) DVD players don't playback V-CD's ;(

[sperm]

Rather than create a new thread, I'll just piggy-back my questions on the back of this
related one.

I've just recently started using a DVD burner, and I'm still trying to work it all out.
I'm trying to back up DVDs to a burnt DVD.

I have read www.doom9.org and others, but its one LONG read to get anywhere !
I'm hoping a knowledgable geek has worked it all out and can help, rather
than me going thru the pain of learning heaps more myself ......

Heres where I have figured out so far:

Most DVDs (DVD-9) are around 7-8GB, but current DVD burners can only write single
layer discs (DVD-5), so you have to reduce the size a little.
The software I like (its free) is a program called DVD shrink.
There are others like dvd2one etc but you have to pay for them.

Ok, with dvd shrink it can read css (copy-protected) disc, re-size them and rip them
to your hard disk drive. (and the process is much quicker than back in 1999 when
de-css programs first came out !)

The next step is to burn the files created to a dvd disk, the easiest
way to do this is with nero (although its commerical software, its bundled with
almost all drives).
This created me a nice dvd disk, however the interactive menus are screwy, you
cannot chapter skip or fast forward more than 4 speed (tho this might
be the powerdvd player, i havent investigated fully)
But from what I have read, these symptoms seem fairly common, and I havent
read a good solution for dvdshrink/nero !!

The other program recommended is dvd decrypter, it can burn dvds (so
I can avoid nero) but i havent worked out how to make it read the rip on my hdd.
It can read dvds directly itself; but it doesnt have re-compression routines (you
can only copy dvd-5 to dvd-5)

The last suggestion I have seen is using anydvd/clonedvd combination, (also good
because the copy can be done on the fly) but both of these programs are commerical;
I have a crack for anydvd but not clonedvd, so I havent progressed in that direction.


As you can read, this all lead to high frustration ! :(

Suggestions anyone ? Im getting sick of creating dvd coasters :rolleyes:

[jambo]

cracks are bad, mkay.

pay for the clonedvd/ anydvd combo. It's by far the best.

edit: wanker :eek: