PuffinMyLye

Everyone talks about how they rip DVD's into AVI to back them up (legally of course, not talking about breaking encryption). The question is, what is the point of that backup? Is it only to be played on your computer and never again on DVD? Is there a way to convert an AVI movie back to DVD without losing so much quality? I'm willing to pay for software if it gets me good quality. I've used WinAVI and ImToo AVI/DVD converter but they either put the DVD into invalid files for burning or the quality is bad. Is there no way to get DVD quality from an AVI?

Kopi

If you have an AVI on your PC and you want to burn it back to a DVD pretty much and burning program will do that for you...nero for example.

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PuffinMyLye

Yes but quality are we talking here? Won't it be distorted when I watch it on a DVD player?

redalert

if its encoded and authored properly it shouldnt be but it depends on the source and whatever program you are using to convert the avi to DVD. You will never regain DVD quality from any an Avi no matter what program you use. Crappy programs like Winavi, ImToo and Nero will make the distrotion look worse with pixel blocks and blurry during action scences.
Some programs that you should look at are. DVD Flick http://www.dvdflick.net/ FAVC http://favcfavc.googlepages.com/home Avi2Dvd http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.php?b2=1 ConvertXtoDVD http://www.vso-software.fr/products/...angate&aid=675 TMPGEnc Xpress http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html

I currently use TMPGEnc Xpress and TMPGEnc DVD author for my Avi to DVD stuff

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biatchi

Dvd2Svcd
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The Film Machine

for avi to dvd...................... I've just started using TFM, There is a pdf guide if you click the How To Use link. It suggests you grab CCE and SurCode DTS Encoder from a torrent site, you don't need them so I wouldn't bother. You can use a trial of CCE but it leaves a pretty big and quite vulgar watermark on the (fantastically) encoded video. Just use HCEnc ( it produces pretty damned good results) and Aften for the AC3 encoder.

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Dvd Rebuilder

For Dvd to Dvd backups. You can use CCE or HCEnc, As above I would just use HCEnc.

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