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bourquetheman · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Suwon

This might be a dumb question but I thought I'd ask anyway. I have a bunch of burned stuff like movies, tv shows, etc. that are all in either AVI or MPEG format. Despite my newly acquired JVC saying that it can play Cdr/rw, DVD R/RW, I have NOT found any of my CDR burned stuff to work. That being said, what program (if it exists) could I use to burn them from AVI to DVD so it would enable me to pop it into the player? Thanks in advance for the help. Also I noticed someone getting some errors using Nero and I must say that I am too. I even reinstalled NERO again but it keeps unsuccessfully burning a disk. It gets to about 99% and then won't finalize, just keeps going and going. The thing is that this is a legitimate copy that came with my Sony Dvd dual layer burner so go figure that! I'm using Roxio suite right now and appears to work fine, yet there are no features enabling you to make your own DVD.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Nero vision express will allow you to create DVDs with avi files.

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

Well I'm no expert but I made my own dvd of stuff I shot with my digital camera and that shoots in Mpeg format. I used 'Ulead video studio 8' though I notice there is a new program from these people which may be better. I think it can handle most types of file and you can burn them as a proper DVD with a menu and all sorts. I just rendered the whole film to DVD format (takes a while) and recorded it onto a disk from Nero.

If you do a search and download the program then you can do all sorts of nifty stuff such as titles, adding music, fades, dialogue. but you'll need a DVD burner to make them work on most dvd machines. You can probably torrent it, or download the demo.

Many demos can be cracked if you like the program and are skint. Very naughty of course, and I for one would never think of doing such a dastardly thing! I think 'Studio 8' is only 50 bucks or so anyway.

Might not be the answer for you and I'm sure there must be an easier way. You can probably find it on this site, they've got some really knowledgeable folks in their forums.

http://www.videohelp.com/forum/

Good luck.

thebum · Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Location: North Korea

Yes, as others have said, Nero/Ulead/other programs will do it just fine.

bourquetheman · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Suwon

Ok well again thanks for everyone's advice. A note about Nero, I downloaded the updates for it and it appears (fingers crossed) to be working. I'm currently making a VCD now that says it will play on my DVD player. The thing is my God does it take forever! Yeah ok so my Sony burner is only 4 speed I think but man almost 2 hours? 1 hour to convert it from Xvid file to proper VCD format into a temporary folder, then another hour to burn it. Man, call me impatient I guess but I thought it would be 20-30 minutes tops.

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

bourquetheman · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Suwon

Well it worked! I'm taking your advice and I'm doing another one now before I go to sleep. I should be thankful that at least it works. Glad I got the bugs worked out of Nero too. The updates apparently helped. What was really frustrating was that I had changed the language to "English" in Nero but parts of it kept reverting back to Korean. But after the update this was fixed so I'm happy.

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

Hey Bourque, I also use Nero. You have AVI files that you burned on a DVD and can watch on a DVD player? How did you do that. I've been trying to do that.

bourquetheman · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Suwon

I used the option "Create your own DVD" and all you do is add files to the project and it automatically converts them. I put some on there that were xvids, divx, (avi I'm pretty sure) etc. The thing is like I mentioned above it IS a time consuming process. I burned War of the Worlds and it took 2.5 hours, Robots took about 2 hours. And today before I left for work I put about 5 Derren Brown programs (he's awesome in case you don't know of him) and it said it would take 4.5 hours! Anyway best of luck to you.

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

Yea, I did that same process, and it took about the same amount of time, like 2.5 hours, and it finished but the disk was blank when it finished. I can't figure it out.

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

Yea, I did that same process, and it took about the same amount of time, like 2.5 hours, and it finished but the disk was blank when it finished. I can't figure it out.

zappadelta · Joined: 31 Aug 2004

Yea, I did that same process, and it took about the same amount of time, like 2.5 hours, and it finished but the disk was blank when it finished. I can't figure it out.

bourquetheman · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Suwon

Have you updated Nero? In Nero there is a button "Nero Product Center" and it will tell you what version you have and you can click to update it.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I have heard (and maybe it was from this forum) that there are problems with Nero's Vision Express 3 that are not present in version2?