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  • techreactor
    Banned
    • Jul 2005
    • 1309
    #1

    Authoring using AVI files

    Okay I have xVid avi movie files which I want to combine and then burn using WinDVD.lets look at an example for clarity.

    Movie A.part1.xvid.avi
    Movie A.part2.xvid.avi
    Movie B.part1.xvid.avi
    Movie B.part2.xvid.avi

    I want to put both movies onto a single DVD and use WinDVD to author them, the problem is that WinDVD will recognise all 4 files as separate chapters and I will have to goto the menu to play the each part of the movie, so I want to join the two parts of the movie first for continuos play and then burn them using WinDVD.

    Now I have few options :

    1) Combine avi files and then use the WinDVD to burn them (can avi2mpg2 do that????, havent tried it). I will have to choose which movie to play once only.
    eg.
    Movie A.full.xvid.avi or Movie A.full.xvid.mpg
    Movie B.full.xvid.avi or Movie B.full.xvid.mpg

    .......mpg is mpeg2 for dvd authoring

    2) Burn them as it is and then change the menus later(using pgcedit) so that the second part of movie is played automatically.

    3) Goto the menus manually to play second part after one part is over.(not preferred)

    While authoring a movie using WinDVD 2.5 there is a setting for audio which specifies, LPCM or MPEG, which one shall i use (original avi contains MP3 audio)which one is better.

    Does anyone has better options/comments on achieving this with minimum losses in audio/video quality while conversion.

    Thanks,
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    • reboot
      Digital Video Expert
      Digital Video Expert
      • Apr 2004
      • 695
      #2
      Does anyone has better options/comments on achieving this with minimum losses in audio/video quality while conversion.
      Don't use WinAVI.
      I would join the two parts of movie A in virtualdub, then frameserve to an encoder, to produce mpeg A.
      Do the same for movie B.
      Author movie A and B in something like DVDLab or Tmpgenc DVD Author.
      My DVDLab (and other) Guides

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        • LT. Columbo
          Demigod of Digital Video
          • Nov 2004
          • 10671
          #3
          no need to use vdub, they can be joined with tmpgenc dvd author by "adding file", NOT "add new track"
          "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
          Columbo moments...
          "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
          "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                     (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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            • LT. Columbo
              Demigod of Digital Video
              • Nov 2004
              • 10671
              #4
              lol, ty....but i'm a lieutenant, not a detective....
              "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
              Columbo moments...
              "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
              "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                             (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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                • LT. Columbo
                  Demigod of Digital Video
                  • Nov 2004
                  • 10671
                  #5
                  i'm a very busy man, if your trying to say something, then just say it....
                  "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
                  Columbo moments...
                  "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
                  "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                                     (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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                    • LT. Columbo
                      Demigod of Digital Video
                      • Nov 2004
                      • 10671
                      #6
                      ok bye....
                      "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
                      Columbo moments...
                      "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
                      "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                                             (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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                        • jm1647
                          An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                          • Apr 2005
                          • 3661
                          #7
                          email address unknown

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                            • LT. Columbo
                              Demigod of Digital Video
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 10671
                              #8
                              sweetiepie has deleted all of his/her posts....
                              "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
                              Columbo moments...
                              "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
                              "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                                                             (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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                                • jm1647
                                  An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                                  • Apr 2005
                                  • 3661
                                  #9
                                  only the 3 in this topic....strange only 8 posts since August 2003 and decides to delete the 3 in this topic with the cryptic message mirror hexadecimal string

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                                    • ger@co
                                      Shrinkslinger, movie only
                                      • Feb 2004
                                      • 843
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by columbo999
                                      sweetiepie has deleted all of his/her posts....
                                      Ahhhh, that explains it. I thought you had that one case which caused you to go around the bend.

                                      Later.
                                      ger@co rulez "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). The Silence of the Lambs.

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                                        • techreactor
                                          Banned
                                          • Jul 2005
                                          • 1309
                                          #11
                                          Okay One hour spent on DVDlab Studio and there I was a clear winner, I just made a DVD for three movies with Menus and Chapters using DVDlab.

                                          But i have to say thanks to "reboot" and his guide without which I would have taken ages, thanks Jim aka reboot.

                                          www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/

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