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Convert AVI(XviD) to MPEG2 with T@b Media Converter
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varnull
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_ 		16. November 2007 @ 17:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok so we have an AVI movie file which we want to make into a dvd.. Step 1 is converting the file into a dvd compliant file type.. In this example I will make a PAL MPEG2 so that I can use DVDAUTHOR to make a standard DVD

Here are the properties of the start file..




It's an avi file which happens to be XviD...

Step 1.. Fire up the Tabencode converter....




Step 2.. Select the input file..




Step 3.. Select the output directory and file




Step 4.. Select the output format.. In this case MPEG2 PAL 25 FPS




Step 5.. Select the output screen format..The original file is Widescreen 16:9 so that is what we will use...




Step 6.. Start the encoding process by hitting the "encode" button...




Step 7.. Put the kettle on.. This takes a while depending on file size..

Step 8.. Check your result.. before and after..




There we have it.. A good conversion with free open source tools.. The difference in reported length is some strange artifact of the way my OS reads different file types.. In practice the resulting MPEG is indistinguishable from the original AVI.
VLC media player shows the correct time, unlike mplayer which is probably the cause of this problem...
Who said Open source tools were hard to use??

Tabencode is available free for all platforms from... http://devel.zs4.net/module_info_tabencode.html

~ © Janrocks 2007
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binkie7
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_ 		16. November 2007 @ 20:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Nice one J :)
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varnull
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_ 		16. November 2007 @ 22:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks K :)

Just to add.. I normally use this for those pesky rmvb files. Rename them to foo.rm and go for it. :lol:
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_ 		27. February 2008 @ 21:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
nice,t@b is now going to be one of my favorite apps!
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