Hi I was wondering if you could help me, I used to use Cusoft Avi to DVD converting software to convert all my AVI's but it was taken hours (and I mean about 16 hours) to convert one film! Is this due to my PC being quite old? I have anew pC coming next week and would like to transfer my old AVI's on to it so that I can convert them but is there a software which is best for conversion? also, how do I copy more than one AVI onto a DVD disc?? Thanks in advance for your help! kelly
Best software: CCE (but it costs a fortune (about 2500 US$!)). TMPGenc is cheaper, but even him is long (not so long, though), when it encodes DVDs/SVCDs in multi-pass Rate Control Mode. An alternative way could be to ask Cucusoft to encode in CBR mode (and therefore, 1-pass), instead of in multi-pass VBR (I never used Cucusoft, I don't know its possible or default settings). Many movies in a DVD: choose a proper bitrate for encoding, so the 'input movie's length' is L=L1+L2+...Ln and use a professional authoring application (DVD Lab is good but it is not free, ReJig and IFOEdit are free but they aren't capable to do so, I don't know other applications, sorry) to author multiple (M2V+audio) sets in a DVD's VOBs+IFOs+BUPs set.
Just a warning: CCE is excellent, but hasn't any wizard and, to do more complicated things: - resizing (DVD is 720x480/576 [NTSC/PAL], AVI are 16:9 like 640x360 for instance) - framerate change (NTSC and PAL have different framerates, that is 29.97 and 25, respectively) - loading DVD2AVI .D2V files (to load a VOB set, see our guides http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ about DVD -> (S)VCD with TMPGenc) need some other stuff. 1) The free VirtualDub (+ its frameserving capabilities installed) to resize (using its 'resize' filter) the AVI + to frameserve its output (movie.vdr) to CCE 2) The free DGPulldown to change the framerate of a M2V (e.g. 25--> 29.97 for PAL -> NTSC) 3) The free AviSynth to use complicated DLLs which enables any encoder (and therefore CCE, too) to load D2V files 4) VirtualDub(Mod) (to extract as uncompressed WAV [or simply demux if it has AC3 sound instead of MP3 sound] the AVI's sound stream) + a good (and free) sound encoder (like FFMPEG GUI) to make WAV -> AC3 (TV with surround speakers) or WAV -> MP2 (TV with normal speakers) and so on.... CCE is very good (for the quality and speed in encoding the video, but not the audio, when you need to use other stuff like I suggested you) and very hard. More, it cannot change a movie's framerate (TV system) and there aren't many guides about it and about AviSynth. TMPGenc 2.5 has a fast learning curve, there are full of tutorials about it, is rather cheap but is rather slow, when it encodes in multipass VBR mode. It's up to you to decide your optimal solution.
