anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #10
ok, i'll try that, thanks
will it affect how long it'll take. my 700 MB conversion has taken 3 hrs and is 38% done?
thanks again
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anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #11
fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB
i did that video tab / bitrate calculator thing and it says "170 mins…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #12
Conversion to MPEG2 can take a while, espically on a pokey machine.
To get 10 hours of video on a DVD you need to encode them all at about 1002kbps (in MPEG2, of course). Currentl…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #13
thanks for the info, i'll experiment.
btw, i have a G5, twin 2.5 mhz
when i took a quick look at how it was doing (after about 5 hrs, about halfway done), there was no sound. i …
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #14
ok it finally finished converting. the final file was 10 gig
so, it wouldn't fit to one disc. i'll have to try changing that bit rate as mduell suggests
BUT, when i popped the …
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #15
ok, i did the whole thing again and again it's asking where the audio component is (and it's not accepting as a 'valid' audio file the similarly named file w/.wav at the end, which…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #16
Quote:
Originally Posted by smileLP
fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB)
That's WAY too much to fit…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #17
best thing is to just get a phillips DVP 642 that will play your .avi files without conversion. They're like $60 and worth every penny.
If you must make a DVD, i think you're on t…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #18
hotani, are you saying that that DVP 642 will play a disc filled w/avi files i just "copied" onto the disc, like copying any data? (a different process than "burning" movies or avi…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #19
(but i will also try the "process" you have outlined, thanks)
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #20
reggie X; i've always found the topic of how much fits on a disc confusing
i've got 700 MB worth of avi's, and a disc holds 4.3
the avi's play as 10 hrs, but is it the size (700 …
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #21
Quote:
Originally Posted by smileLP
hotani, are you saying that that DVP 642 will play a disc filled w/avi files i just "copied" onto the disc, like copying any data? (a differe…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #22
Quote:
Originally Posted by smileLP
reggie X; i've always found the topic of how much fits on a disc confusing
i've got 700 MB worth of avi's, and a disc holds 4.3
the avi's p…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #23
>>The really easiest way to do this would be Toast, since it'll handle all the conversion for you automatically, and show you how many files will fit on a single DVD. I use T…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #24
hotani,
sad to say none of the outlined steps or "missing codecs" resulted in a positive result
so i'm now very int'd in that philips dvP 642
one question: how does the menu opt…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #25
also, as many avi's show up "small" on a computer screen, does this dvd player expand each avi to fill the screen (tv) size?
thanks again
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #26
When you insert a data disc into the DVP 642, it shows a listing of all the files on the disc. When playing them, it resizes to your screen. Only thing I see it having trouble with…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #27
ok, thanks, i'll get one in the next few days and i'll report back how i like it (which i expect i will)
thanks mucho!
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #28
update/question for HOTANI
i got it all hooked up and you're right, the DVP 642 DOES play avi's!
so i'm very pleased about that
btw, is it just me, or when you're watching an av…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #29
Before you do ANYTHING with your avi's, run them through DivX Doctor/ and save them as self-contained Quicktime movies. You'll have a lot more success from that point.
Chris
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #30
chabig,
i don't know what's changed but divX doctor used to do a great job changing avi's to mpgs (QT), but a few mos. ago it mostly stopped working. dunno if it had to do w/my t…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #31
It still works great for me. When you upgraded to Tiger, perhaps you forgot to reinstall the DivX codec.
Chris
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #32
i do have divx codec v. 6 stuff on my mac. is that the latest? it appears to be based on my poking around the web. thanks
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #33
ok, i just tried divx doctor again, and it converted a 300 MB file REAL FAST. the copy it made is 800 kb or some such. how is that possible? unless it's taking it's "source mat'…
anyone else have trouble burning (DL'd) avi's to a disc? — #34
ok, the divx doctor converted version just "kicked in" w/the actual file size, and it's essentially the same as the original. i guess it just needed a few mins. to calculate and i…