I would try to share what I have learnt
Convert and Burn AVI (divx / xvid / mp4 / x264 / AAC) to DVD (VOB) / VCD
How do you burn movies or video which you have encoded under compressed codec formats as divx / xvid / mp4 / x264 / AAC ??
But before I start, I would remind you that if you only want to view the movies / videos at your PC / Notebook, then let them be under those Compressed format, as it saves a lot of disk space… If you have a problem on viewing them because of codec issue then either use VLC Media Player or download and install any codec pack, such as K-Lite or CCCP…
Do note, many modern DVD player supports MP4 / xvid / divx so even if you want to view the movie / video via your DVD player then check if it has the support for this codecs or not… If it has, then simply burn a DVD using Nero or any such software as DATA DVD and your DVD player (if it supports any or those codec) would be able to play the video !!!
This guide is for those who has an older DVD / VCD player which doesn’t support any of those codecs… This guide would explain step by step process on how to convert the divx / xvid / mp4 / x264 / AAC files and burn them in to DVD / VCD to make sure your player reads and play them !!!
How do I convert and burn AVI (divx / xvid / mp4 / x264 / AAC) video / movie file to a DVD / VCD ??
Before you start, few point you need to keep in mind… Under video DVD (.vob) format one single DVD5 (4.7GB DVD) may hold maximum up to 120 mins video… Where as a single VCD disk (700 MB CD-R) would hold up to 80 mins of video…
For video format size is not a matter, so suppose you have a 180 mins of movie or video encoded in a 1.4 GB AVI file, means you will need 2 DVD disk to burn the DVD… Dont get confuse that one DVD holds 4.7 GB means you may put 2 or more DVD Rips under it… Same applies with VCD too, a single VCD will hold max up to 80 mins of video… So if you have 160 mins of encoded video under a 700 MB rip, would mean you need to have at-least 2 CD-R for the job….
So if you have any 700 MB rip with more than 80 mins (for VCD) or 120 mins (for DVD) of video in it, then use any free AVI splitter to split the AVI files in 2 or more as per your need !!!
One click tool for the converting and burning job would be Nero Vision (Part of Nero)…
Nero vision comes with converting and burning tool… So, bellow is the easiest process to Convert and Burn AVI (divx / xvid / mp4 / x264 / AAC) to DVD (VOB) / VCD…
Quick Tip : If you are using Windows Vista, do note, there is a bug with Nero Vision version 5 (which come with Nero 8 ) therefore use Nero Vision 4 (which comes with Nero 7.10 and which is fully compatible with Windows Vista) for your job… If you have Windows XP / 2003 or 2000 you may use any of the version !!!
Start Nero Vision, in my case its Start >> Nero 7 >> Photo and Video >> Nero Vision…
At application main windows Click Make CD >> Video CD or Make DVD >> Video DVD
At the nest step, Click Add Video files
Browse and add the video file you want to add, do keep in mind, it doesn’t matter what is the size of the file, what matters is what is the length of the video… For VCD it needs to be lower than 80 mins and for DVD it needs to be lower than 120 mins… !!!
Click Next to go the next step and here you may create menu for the disk, but I prefer without menu !!!
So you may just select Do not create a menu from the drop down list to proceed to next step…
At the burning point, Choose your burner if you have more than 2 burner under your PC…
Now go to Recording settings, and chose your Speed in which you want the DVD or VCD to be burn… For VCD I would say 16x where as for DVD it should be not more than 8x….
Now you are ready to burn the Disk… Do note for converting and imaging purpose Nero will need about 800 MB for a VCD and 5 GB free space for a DVD under your C (windows drive) for create the temp files… So click burn to start the process…
With my Core 2 Duo E6600 Over Clocked at 3.6 GHz and 4 GB DDR-II it takes about 6 mins to complete a AVI to VCD encoding !!! Same process with same file takes 40 mins with Pentium 4 631 with 2 GB DDR-II !!!
After Nero Completes the encoding and creates the VCD writable file, it would proceed towards the burning that in the disk…
The burning process takes same time with any system which is around 8 mins for a 700 MB VCD written at 16x speed….
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January 3, 2010 - 1:42 am
seems like this thread may be long dead, but i am hoping on the off chance someone reads this they can help. i followed the nero vision instuction above to convert an x264 file to a dvd file that plays on a standard[older] dvd player. the file is an old kung fu movie with subtitles, and i believe the subs are hardcoded into the file, anyway, the movie worked perfectly after burn, except that the subs where no longer there. how can i fix this in nero so that i will not lose the subs or if need be add a .srt file? sure hope someone is still out there who can help! thanks in advance!
fatty
February 16, 2009 - 7:13 pm
This was SO helpful! I’ve only used Nero to burn Bin/Cue files and had NO idea how to convert AVI files using it as well. Thanks!
February 14, 2009 - 10:16 am
Hey i got a DVD player which in its manual says it can play MPEG 4 file formats using a USB drive, I tried to convert a file in to MPEG 4 format and trying to play in my DVD player thru USB port, but it comes with a message unsupported format…Any help will be much appreciated.. thanks in advance…
February 3, 2009 - 5:20 pm
i have a video file recorded on avi format i would like to convert this to dvd or vcd could you recomend me software that could do this i have windows xp.
January 11, 2009 - 1:28 pm
i download the flims from the sites to my computer in a veoh form and when i want to copy it on the dvd by using nero the date is coping, the probelms is when i want to see the picture in dvd player it is not coming. there the problem arise.
the format i download is 1CD Pre-DVDRip E-Subbs XviD ~Team IcTv~ and i convert it in to vlc and copied it in the dvd, when i put the dvd in my dvd player the picture is not coming.
will you please give me the suggestion how to convert it in to vlc form to visualize in my dvd player
waiting for you detail reply on my emali (hajeeali99@yahoo.com)
pls reply soon with the steps how to convert and burn the dvd to play it in my dvd player.
December 13, 2008 - 4:32 am
This is rather basic, it doesn’t include how to convert the audio formats from a h264 mp4 to an ac3 5.1 channel audio. My file contains an AAC format audio, which is not playable on a regular dvd player, so there’s a lot more to it than this.
November 17, 2008 - 10:42 am
i want to 7 divx movie to 4.7gb dvd creator.
October 10, 2008 - 7:06 am
where can i download the avi splitter for free. trial versions only make 10 minutes of your video.
October 10, 2008 - 7:01 am
i have the ‘any video converter’ but i dnt know wat type of file i will click if i convert xvid to vcd… the types are mpeg I, mpeg II, customived WMV, costumized avi.
August 29, 2008 - 3:58 am
this is for those who are like me, penny scrooge, even a penny matters.
and linux/bsd folks who will want the best by paying no penny. read up. near the end somewhere you will find encoding techniques. and this happens by the magic tool called mencoder and there in “help/faq/doc/tools” you got a shell script which if you run? you may convert all most all videos including flv videos from yahoo/google/youtube into DVD/DVD5. if you mean dvd then get dvdauthor else for vcd (VCD1/2, svcd, kvcd) vcdima?er check with the rest of the doc. its lengthy and tedious. and i got one machine with xp loaded and i will try to download XP’s powershell v1 and will try to port the codes from bash (./) to powershell commandlets.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html
scroll down to mencoder and encoding techniques. yup agree vlc is nice. i sometime use vlc and vls to broadcast video streams, but this is for those scrooges (miser) (kanjoos:hindi)
links and sub-direct links.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/encoding-guide.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-xvid.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd-all
@kamlesh: it all matters on whats your processing speed and also whats your GPU speed, the faster these 2 are better the speed and also better quality. and lastly? you are trying to convert from one form to another? so “PLEASE BE PATIENT.” and dvd to divx can be of varying bitrates and other many permutations and combinations depending on dvd type and region and frame rate. hope this helps kamlesh. good luck!
July 29, 2008 - 10:57 am
Hello Kamlesh, Please read this,
How to RIP a DVD
July 29, 2008 - 10:43 am
Good article.Nicely explained.
Will u pl.explain how to convert dvd to DivX- compressed format in mimimum possible time?
Or which is the best format to compressed the dvd?and how?
May 10, 2008 - 4:43 pm
HI, if MPEG4 to.VOB is the need then use Avitodvd, DVDX,FAIRUSEwizered all are free and nice. If .Dat is the need then make mpeg4 video file to mpg with say mediacoder and burn with nero as vcd.
Secondly if you want to put 2hrs of near DVD quality video on a 700MB disc or 6hrs of near VCD quality video on a single 80 minute CD or 6 hours Full Dvd quality video of res 720×480 or about 10 hours at Half D-1 352×480 on one single DVD(both are playable with standalone players)then make ‘KVCD’ Or ‘KDVD’ with TMPEG,free.And of course the KVCD or KDVDs are not for PC playback,means u don’t like the quality,u better need then mpeg4,but the quality will be amazing on hardware players. Try googling.
April 2, 2008 - 8:53 pm
Sorry I should have mentioned that I have a movie that the picture and sound are perfect except that the audio is off by about 5 seconds, very annoying!
Any suggestions on what I can do in order to fix it or will Nero fix it all at the burn stage.
April 2, 2008 - 8:51 pm
If the avi file is out of sync before burning will Nero Vision fix it as it burns or do you need to use another software first.
March 21, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Hello Sir,
You may use softwares which can simply split a divx / xdiv in a size which you want !!
There are many available, you may Google for them
March 21, 2008 - 5:48 pm
not very useful as most vcd movies (if not all) are 2 cd. anyway how do you make a movie longer than 80mins 2 cd instead? you tell me that. anyone knows what youve just said. i remember there was a way with another program just cant remember which one.
March 4, 2008 - 6:59 pm
I have nero 7 and u can’t recode x264 to dvd with nero.I use convert x to dvd works every time.
March 1, 2008 - 8:28 am
Thanks, It’s a very useful tutorial
February 26, 2008 - 6:52 am
Tks, but I am using aimersoft dvd creator, it convert all popular video formats (AVI, MP4, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, WMV, ASF, RM, RMVB, DAT, MOV, FLV, etc) to DVD and burn DVD movie played on portable and home DVD players, that’s very good for me..