Burning DVDs

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If I just burn a movie to DVD (for archiving purposes, you know?) with Nero, the audio always goes out of the sync. So, I started using a combination of ffmpegui, gspot, TMPGEnc, and virtualdubmod. This whole process takes hours (not including actual burn time) and doesn't always yield perfect results if I make a mistake with bitrate or aspect ratio or something. There's gotta be a better way. I doubt there's some program that can automatically demux, export the mv1 and wav/mp3, calulate bitrate, then remux and burn, but is there a quick way I can burn DVDs properly without the audio going out of sync and what not?

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

If I just burn a movie to DVD (for archiving purposes, you know?) with Nero, the audio always goes out of the sync. So, I started using a combination of ffmpegui, gspot, TMPGEnc, and virtualdubmod. This whole process takes hours (not including actual burn time) and doesn't always yield perfect results if I make a mistake with bitrate or aspect ratio or something. There's gotta be a better way. I doubt there's some program that can automatically demux, export the mv1 and wav/mp3, calulate bitrate, then remux and burn, but is there a quick way I can burn DVDs properly without the audio going out of sync and what not?

What is your source video?

[gamer2]

DVD archetect

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My source would usually be a DivX file. I'll look into DVD Architect.

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

My source would usually be a DivX file. I'll look into DVD Architect.

For a file like that, something like DIKO or DVD Flick would work well. I haven't heard of DVD Architect, but that sounds like it should work too.

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I've a read a few posts about people having sync problems with DVD Flick, plus I had a little problem running it. DIKO outputs as SVCD and KVCD which suck (I have high standards when it comes to vid quality). I'm gonna try out DVD Architect.

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Anyone know how to change aspect ratio in DVD Architect? This movie is 16:9 but I want to change it to 1.85:1 (the proper aspect). Can I do this with DVD Architect?

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

I've a read a few posts about people having sync problems with DVD Flick, plus I had a little problem running it. DIKO outputs as SVCD and KVCD which suck (I have high standards when it comes to vid quality). I'm gonna try out DVD Architect.

DIKO can output to kDVD as well, which just means DVD...

And if you have high standards when it comes to video quality, you have no business watching some crappy DivX file.

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And if you have high standards when it comes to video quality, you have no business watching some crappy DivX file.

What's wrong with DivX? My standards are that the video maintains it's original resolution/size (720x480 as opposed to 640x for example) and that it doesn't look like crap. My DivX videos seems to meet this standard. For a movie of average length anything about 1.1 GB is alright.

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

And if you have high standards when it comes to video quality, you have no business watching some crappy DivX file.

What's wrong with DivX? My standards are that the video maintains it's original resolution/size (720x480 as opposed to 640x for example) and that it doesn't look like crap. My DivX videos seems to meet this standard. For a movie of average length anything about 1.1 GB is alright.

Well, when I put my DVD's on my NAS, I just use DVD shrink (but NOT to compress them) to eliminate all the extra crap (extras, portugese audio, stupid commentary, etc) and keep the original movie untouched. And it looks beautiful. I tried compressing them to save space, but the only thing good enough was say, a 1.4GB x264, and that wouldn't play on XBMC, so I just said screw it, the original is always best anyway. (Granted, my 500GB HDD is full and I need another one, as DVD files are huge, but that's beside the point.)

Yeah, I like being anal about my video quality. Blocking and banding during a movie makes me want to shoot myself. Youtube is ok, as it's not anything special , just short random videos that I don't generally watch more than once or twice. BTW, digital cable sucks, it looks like Youtube scaled up, but that's a rant for another day.

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Anyone know how to change aspect ratio in DVD Architect? This movie is 16:9 but I want to change it to 1.85:1 (the proper aspect). Can I do this with DVD Architect?

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

Anyone know how to change aspect ratio in DVD Architect? This movie is 16:9 but I want to change it to 1.85:1 (the proper aspect). Can I do this with DVD Architect?

DVD's can't handle 1.85:1, just 16:9 and 4:3. You could probably have to add very small black bars (VERY small, 1.85:1, and 1.78:1 (16:9) are very close) added to the input video.

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How might I go about doing that? Since 1.85:1 is larger than 16.9 height-wise (correct?) I assume I'll need to make it 4:3 will bars? I assume DVD Architect adds these bars, so I just need to figure out how to fix the aspect ratio before hand. My first instinct would be to use VirtualDub but it doesn't have 1.85:1 in it's list, but I think there is a resize type feature that lets you resize a video to w/e aspect you want.

EDIT: I think I was wrong. 16.9 is larger height-wise (now that I think of it, I could've said it was less wide lol) than 1.85:1, so you were right, really small bars.

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

Does DVD Architect take AviSynth scripts as input? Because you could add borders using AviSynth (a very cool and powerful free tool).

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Not sure, it has some sort of script. I have Avisynth but never really ended up using it. I just figured out how to resize with VirtualDub, and it does resize it, but the output video is really choppy.



Any ideas?

EDIT: I tried a couple different filter modes, didn't help.

EDIT: Actually precise bicubic (A=-1.00) worked a lot better than the other ones, but there was still a little lag here and there.