[Film Making] How do I put .avi or .mpg on to DVD?

[Treetop Flyer]

I know this has nothing to do with film making but maybe one of you guys will know this.

I just want to know how to make it so .avi or .mpg files can be watched on a typical home DVD Player. I don't have one myself so I can't test it but I heard that you can't just burn them like normal files and they will play.

Thanks for any help

Oh and just another thing I was wondering about. How fast would a top class film move? I mean as in cinema quality digital? I am studying computing and was looking at Wireless yesterday and the fastest Wireless is 11mbps. Is this fast enough to stream movies?

Cheers

[Bones]

http://www.videohelp.com/convert

Try there. Should tell you the software needed and how to go about it.

[DiamondAFC]

I do lot of converting best progs found so far, are ulead dvd moviefactory, dvd santa and winavi.

Also the link above give you's guides to these programs as thats where found them.

[Stew]

Nero has a program called Vision Express.

It's pretty good at converting and burning .avi files and suchlike to dvd/vcd/svcd.

[Largest of Als]

Oh and just another thing I was wondering about. How fast would a top class film move? I mean as in cinema quality digital? I am studying computing and was looking at Wireless yesterday and the fastest Wireless is 11mbps. Is this fast enough to stream movies?

Cheers

The current, most widely used, Wireless standard (technically known as IEEE 802.11g) speed is 54mbps although the new standard (IEEE 802.11n) of 108mbps is being introduced at the moment.

More info Here if you need it.

[Treetop Flyer]

Cheers for the info guys.

Ah I thought so Al. Thanks. When I said I was looking at it what I meant to say was we were getting taught it the other day. Honest

[Treetop Flyer]

Hey again. Is there such a thing as a free dvd decoder/player for the computer?
I've had a look and can't see anything apart from trials which offer one minute or so playback

[Stew]

Hey again. Is there such a thing as a free dvd decoder/player for the computer?
I've had a look and can't see anything apart from trials which offer one minute or so playback

VCL Media Player.

Plays pretty much anything.

Edit: Windows Media Player?

[Treetop Flyer]

Microsoft are the masters of sarcasm.

Windows Media Player 10 will play dvds for sure but only if you have dvd playing software installed

[Treetop Flyer]

VCL Media Player.

Plays pretty much anything.

Edit: Windows Media Player?

Ah cool! Well that VCL player seems to do the trick although another problem seems to have occured.

I've made a dvd of a music video and the sound is way out of sync with the movie

I used DVD Santa to do it and didn't get any errors. There are two folders on the dvd. One is Audio TS and on is Video TS.

Anyone think why they might be so out of sync?

[Stew]

Ah cool! Well that VCL player seems to do the trick although another problem seems to have occured.

I've made a dvd of a music video and the sound is way out of sync with the movie

I used DVD Santa to do it and didn't get any errors. There are two folders on the dvd. One is Audio TS and on is Video TS.

Anyone think why they might be so out of sync?

Hmm, out of sync.. sounds like some sort of error.. can't think.. too drunk.. buffer underflow/overflow turned on or off, off the top of my head?

I'll reply in the morning when sober.

[unkle markus]

I've been getting that witha few VCD's I make some work fine some don't. Its annoying as hell.

[Stew]

I've been getting that witha few VCD's I make some work fine some don't. Its annoying as hell.

They are okay when first downloaded, I assume?

[Treetop Flyer]

Yeah they play fine as just files on the computer

[Zero]

Oh and just another thing I was wondering about. How fast would a top class film move? I mean as in cinema quality digital? I am studying computing and was looking at Wireless yesterday and the fastest Wireless is 11mbps. Is this fast enough to stream movies?

Cheers

There are no digital cinemas in the UK yet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4297865.stm - so I don't know how you could decide what was 'cinema digital quality'.

If you projected a DVD image onto a cinema size screen it would look awful, since film has a much higher resolution.

A typical DVD has an average bit rate of about 5Mbps but it can go up to 6 or 7Mbps on fast action scenes. Even though 802.11b is supposed to go up to about 11Mbps, in reality it is much less due to WEP encryption, interference, network overhead, etc.

You could probably stream DVD quality over 802.11g without any problems.

I would estimate digital cinema would need 10 to 100 times as much bandwidth as DVD.