Video_ts too big for DVD-R...pls help!

I truly hope hursty becoming inactive does not have anything to do with this thread...Like Brobear said, we were just discussing different options for encoding, for me it was just an opportunity to learn something beyond basics.

brobear,
When viewing a divx movie in that Philips that you are talking about, how would you say is the quality( I know, not even close to an original DVD!), but obviously better than after you would convert them to DVD. Would you say is pretty good?( a quality avi looks very decent on a 20 inch monitor on my computer, just wondering about a tv viewing)

 

cyprusrom

I agree, I saw nothing that should give cause for hursty to become inactive. I've always believed that a little spirited debate is the stuff that makes online bulletin boards true sources of knowledge and a little more fun I might add.

 

Cyprusrom
I can't really make a comparison. I've mainly been getting AVI copies of old movies and serials that haven't made it to today's prime time. If you have a viewer to preview the AVI files, then what you see on your AVI should be what you see on the player. There you're just recording the digital signal, not altering anything.

As for hursty, I hate to see any of the senior members leave the forum. No one was trying to make him leave. I sometimes say things that are a bit insensitive, but usually they're to the mark. I suspect there is more to his leaving than what was said here. If I was somehow the cause, I'd say he was being a bit overly sensitive. You should read some of the things that have been said to and about me. LOL

 

@Sophocles
I agree. Is not just once that I was told that I was wrong, or that my method was not the best, or whatever. And if indeed I am proved to be wrong, that doesn't make weaker, but in contrary, it expands my knowledge, makes me better I would say!
And if everyone would agree on everything, that would be the end of everything,like growing and learning, and the rise of boredom and dullness!

 

Hmmm... Shades of Sophocles.

 

BTW, whatever you guys do, don't allow me to state that I was doing this back in the 1990's (although it seems farther in the past) I've already been proved wrong once on that account. I've got to stop trying to rely on memory for everything. LOL

 

Brobear mentioned that using Neuro will make all the files fit on the DVD, Everytime I try to drag the files into Neuro they are always to big, what else do I haft to do to make them fit?

 

Are you talking about Nero Vision and AVi/mpeg files? What do you mean they are too big, do you get an error or something?

 

kkniffen

You can't just burn a file in Nero, first you must compress it using Nero Recode.

Open Nero recode, choose recode and entire DVD (that should work since you're taking nothing out), choose import DVD and then navigate to where it's stored on your hard disk and then click next. Choose your settings or just hit burn.

 

kkniffen
Sohocles has it right. Follow his directions. Recode is one of the better transcoders for shrinking your files to fit the target media.

 

Recode isn't one of my options.

 

What do you mean by that/ You don't have a full Nero version, or is not Recode the application for your project? What are you trying to do? Work with an AVI, or backup a d DVD?

 

kkniffen
Then use RB/HC or DVD Shrink if free is a requirement. The way you were talking about Nero led us to assume you had the Nero suite of software.

 

I am using DVD Shrink with Neuro. But when I add my files from DVD shrink into Neuro, they are still to big.

 

Try reading the manuals on how the software works. Nero has manuals available for its different apps on the Nero website. DVD Shrink guides are available on most of the major forums. Just open the Help in the Shrink app itself. The guide links are still good. NVE3 or NV4 are good for converting AVI files to DVD. After conversion Shrink is a decent transcoder for fitting files to the target media. The way Nero is used in conjunction with Shrink is as a burner. There the burning ROM is used. Nero is a suite of software for several different functions. It sounds as though you need to work on which apps do what and how different tasks are done.

 

i woke to read this, then read on to see this...

interesting... never did say that...

 

ok, here's the thing. Comments like the ones highlighted by Rotary, dont really help anyone. They just appear to be personal attacks at best, and n00b put downs at worst.

We are seeing far to many comments like this in the forums lately. Not just from Bro Bear. This is in no way directed at him alone.

People come to afterdawn for help
People come to afterdawn to help

those people are good

those people who have come here on a mission to look superior to all others at the expense of spreading knowledge.

those people are bad

Have an opinion, make it count, make it clear sure, but dont make it agressive / personal. and remember, it's just your opinion.

Now i'm not saying who's right and who's wrong in this thread. but lets keep it informative and useful for all. other thread readers shouldn't have to come here and try to filter out all the 'im better than you' BS

Peace - Out

EDIT

seeing as this thread is now closed i have to put my reply here.

BroBear did mis-quote my PM, thats lame. In the posts following it he also seems to be shining other ppl on. Thats also lame. I dont know whats going on with these forums anymore. An offensive post was reported ... that post still stands, and the mods join in with the BS??? What happened to Afterdawn?

 

Rotary
No one said you did.

In fact, the only reference to you was that you had quoted good experiences with the software. You hadn't gone on and made ridiculous statements about ConvertXtoDVD being a better encoder than CCE. ConvertXtoDVD is good for what it does, conversion of AVI files with transcoding abilities, but isn't in the league with true encoders such as CCE and Pro Coder.

 

@Mr_Taz_UK

Nor the holier than thou BS either. You should have pondered your post before making it along with reading the forum rules. Members aren't supposed to be acting as mods. Suggestions are one thing, trying to give orders another, especially when not truly understanding the situation. I noticed you weren't a participant in this thread till you joined in with your own distraction.

My statement to hursty was abrupt, had he been a newbie, I wouldn't have been so. As an Addict his statements carry more weight with uninformed readers. Had it just been a conflict of personal opinions, I would have let it go with a simple "IMO I disagree". However, when something is so blatantly wrong as to assault everyone's intelligence, including my own, I become a bit outspoken. That's called protecting the integrity of info on the forum, which by the way is beneficial for newbs as well as other members not well informed on the topic in question.

Hopefully you'll remember that when you go to comment on others actions and further keep things stirred up and off track. The topic had progressed to encoders being used with conversion tools. Professionals agree that CCE is one of the top encoders and ConvertXtoDVD isn't even mentioned in the same circles. There you have a member, hursty, inserting his opinion with a bad piece of information. He has the right to state it, but it's not only ridiculous from my point of view, but in the eyes of anyone using the software or aware of it's capablilities. So, I have the right to call it a ridiculous statement. Anyone seeing statements as blatantly wrong should comment. If worried about Noobs, worry about the info they're being fed on their search for the grail.

I highly doubt what happened here caused hursty to go inactive. His demeanor may have taken him afoul of a mod who clipped his membership. Members don't have the option, that I'm aware of, of closing their own membership. I guess he could have asked to be made inactive. I hate to see members leave, but I don't miss sources of disinformation.

Rotary put up the quotes seemingly because he thought they were pointed toward him. Not so. His actions were in defense, not an attack on others. So, I don't see his actions as being offensive to anyone. There's been a disagreement here between hursty and myself that got a bit personal. I still say the statement about ConvertXtoDVD being better than CCE was grossly incorrect. Other than that, the membership would have been better served to leave it alone or report the thread to the mods as being offensive. Jumping in and trying to moderate without being a mod is against the rules in itself.

Directing it at anyone is a personal attack by you on them. So, in the future, I hope you follow your own advice.

 

MrTaz
Here's your PM in it's entirety since it pertains to this thread. I don't appreciate rude PMs. You really have the spirit of a mediator. LOL

Don't worry, I have a copy of your PM in my messages, which I can post a screen capture of if necessary.

Now it appears you're the one into attacking and ranting. If a decent moderator, you should know to stay out of things not your business. Your sole reason for interfering in this thread was to support your buddy hursty. You may consider him a highly respected member of IRC AD, but I was seeing him as a source of disinformation.