Problems burning AVI film

nemo183

buglawton wrote:

Videohelp is a great site. There appear to be no freeware DVD burners though. One came free with my PC, it looks like an exact clone of WinDVD creator but it is only able to build DVDs by picking out the VOB files one by one whiich has a side effect of losing the sound synch and correct starting points once the resulting DVD is viewed on a domestic player. Not keen to pay for any other software till I know it will work perfectly & not produce coasters.

DVD shrink 3.2 is a completely free DVD burner, that also allows you to re-author a DVD so that you can strip it of unwanted/needed content, making the quality of your copy better.

The problem is that many commercial DVDs are dual layer, ie have twice the capacity of a single layer DVD that you are copying on to. However, if you use DVD shrink you can just copy the main film, without the trailers and bonus bits, and this will fit on a single layer DVD.

Just thought - don't forget that there is a difference between DVD -R and DVD +R - some players work with both, some only one.

buglawton

When I tried DVD shrink it directed me to download another program to do the actual burning, this being a paid for program. Anyway, I had a more detailed look at the one that came bundled with the PC and found a tool tucked away that does a simple 1:1 copy. This made a DVD that some players can read (though loading is a bit slow compared to the original) and some players can't read at all. The target media was a DVD +R. I have done sopme more investigation and I think the next step will be to burn to a DVD -R and see if it can be read on more players.

While we are on this subject, does anyone know of an economical and reliable VHS video to DVD burning service where you can specify some very simple editing of the original video at the same time (by giving from-to times on the time counter)?

nemo183

buglawton wrote:

While we are on this subject, does anyone know of an economical and reliable VHS video to DVD burning service where you can specify some very simple editing of the original video at the same time (by giving from-to times on the time counter)?

You can buy a video/DVD copy machine for around £150 - Tesco's do one for £148. Or, if you know anyone that works in a school, most have such a machine and will do it for nothing.

Failing the above, if you only have 1 or 2 tapes, send me a PM and I'll do it for you myself.