I've got an .avi file I want to burn. It must be to dvd because too big for svcd. So I've followed the avi2dvd guide and used avi2dvd and dvddecrypter to burn. Everything seemed okay, though it took about 5 hours and reported an avisynch error on frame 1 (whatever that means). On playback of the produced dvd on the computer all was good - a couple of hesitations and clicks in the first few minutes and then smooth sailing. The sound was very low. When I took it to the dvd player it couldn't be read at all. The dvd player reported no disk in the drive. Previous efforts with Nero have produced (effort 1) a movie with much 'noise' or whatever the experts call it - those blocks of solid colour that seem to get thrown up on a corrupt disk and (effort 2) a disk that eventually seized up solid, wouldn't play any further. Because the .avi file plays without any sign of any imperfections at all on the computer I think it has the capacity to turn out a good dvd, so I keep trying. I think I read somewhere that the translating from one code to another means that your dvd often finishes up with less quality than a svcd. That defeats the purpose, to me, of using a dvd at all. Quality is what I want first. I don't care about having to use two disks and I don't care about losing fancy features like jumping back and forth between chapters or whatever. Not at the expense of quality. So could I ask the experts here what they think I should do? 1. Persevere trying to make a dvd from this avi? Then how? 2. Go for a svcd? Then how? regards, ab
To me it sounds like Nero Vision has done the job but the quaility of the AVI file might not be good or the media your using is not of good quaility. What brand of media are you using? What is the Manufatures ID? You will only get as good of quaility as what the source AVI file gives. Just because it seems to play fine on your computer dosent mean it is of high quaility and a optical drive can read it good. But most causses for pixilation is due to poor quaility AVI or Media.
Thanks for the reply. The media is marketed by Woolworths as 'magmedia'. I've forgotten what the burner is and I don't want to use that computer just now because Nero is having another go at it and I don't use the computer for anything but burning when I'm burning. But it doesn't matter what they are. Keep it in context. This is the ONLY file I have problems with. I'm burning other DVD's all the time without any problem. There is something variably wrong when one disk seizes up entirely and another just plays with pixellation and another reports 'no disk in drive'. (And all my other burns work fine). If it is the .avi file what can I do about it? Is there a way of discovering the problems in an .avi file? Is there a way of fixing them? I vaguely remember a piece of software I think I once had called 'fixavi'. Can't find it now though. I've run this file through virtual edit and I've run the product through tmpg. I've run it through avi2dvd. I've watched it play (the original .avi) on my computer and failed to see any problems whatever. Maybe I can try to make a couple of svcd disks out of it? I'd be interested in hearing any thoughts anyone has. regards, ab
You asked for our help. I gave you a suggestion saying it possibly could be a media issue. Don’t brush me off like my suggestion isn’t important. It does matter what DVD media you have. Just because you have some DVD's play flawlessly doesn’t mean you will have all DVD's play flawlessly when it comes to media. If you’re using cheap media then the media more then likely isn’t consistent. So you could have a good batch for a while then come across a bad batch that you have problems with every other disc. So find out what media your using and use the link below and see what Class it is in. If it is Class 3 or below get different media. http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm Don’t just push this suggestion to the side. I have been converting and burning DVD's for a while and most of the time when I had Pixilation, DVD's freezing up or getting the incorrect disc error it was due to the media. I was told time after time myself when starting out with DVD backup to get better media Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim. I finely listened and have very little problems at all unless of course it is due to my error. If you find the ID of the disc and see that it is Class 1 or 2 then maybe you need to get a different source AVI file of whatever it is you’re trying to convert. If you have Class 3 or lower then I would suggest getting better media. below is a link of the media that you say your using. read the reviews towards the bottom. Most people gave POOR for DVD burrning relibility. http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia.php?selectmedia=3764
That's a funny thing. I was sure I replied to this. Wrote a big long thing. But it's not here, is it. So again: I didn't mean to brush anyone or anything aside. I was trying to exercise a little logic. But, of course, you're right. It is quite possible that random bad disks are buggering everything up. Thanks for the links and the information they led me to. I wasn't aware of all that stuff befored. I'll keep it in mind in future and buy the best I can afford. I do notice though that the manufacturer for MJC003 gets an excellent (or v. good, or good) rating for three products and only one bad rating - for the magmedia. Makes it look as though the manufacturer is no guarantee of quality. A variable quantity. We can imagine different specs being met at the factory for different customers. You'd think Woolworth's would be a good quality customer, though, wouldn't you, with their no questions asked refund policy? Anyway, what's happened is that I've found a new prog for processing the file. It is called convertxtodvd and it produced a trouble free dvd. That's three efforts at this 'bad' file, all failures. With two good burns in between of unrelated files. With all - ALL - good burns prior and followed by a good burn of this 'bad' file after processing by convertxtodvd (which actually does its own burning, too). So thanks for help, guys. I've learned (here on afterdawn) that .avi files can have many different contents. The .avi spec being for a container rather than a spec for the contents. And there's apparently some magic numbers up front - the 4 c's or something - that tell what's inside. Wouldn't it be good if conversion programmes, or any programme that uses an avi file were to tell us what it has found in the '4c's' section and what it expects the contents to be and how it proposes to deal with it? Because it looks to me like these other progs couldn't meet the requirement properly so they just took a stab - like using a default font. It is interesting. GIGO we used to call it. Garbage In Garbage Out. regards, ab
Update, if this thread's of interest to anyone: Made a successful burn with convertxtodvd, as I said. Did it again with bought software to remove the nag text and it DIDN'T work! 'No Disk in Drive'. Did it again exactly the same way (only one click job with this software) and it worked! Conclusion: Larrylje was right all along. The media is at fault. Or that's how it looks to me now. After I've got better (i.e. more expensive, better rating) media I'll be trying again. If I get problems again I'll come back to this thread and post them. regards, ab
