Several years ago 1999-2002, before I put my Sony DCR-TRV310 into storage, I had captured the avi content onto my hard drive using WinDV. At the time I didn't have a media player (Western Digital) that I could hook up to a TV to play these avi files.
The files ranged in sizes, with a few over 9GB, but most were below 4.3GB.
I wanted to issue these files to family and friends as DVD, so I remembered in my search that CCE was recommended to first re-encode them to a DVD compliant files (mpa, mpv, vaf) then use GUI for dvdauthor to produce the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders that contained the VOB files needed to burn as a DVD.
I remembered that I tried it with two files, both were about 650MB. Again, GUI for dvd author didn't recognized them since they weren't DVD compliant files. So I think I had tried the trial of CCE. What I do recall was that following the guides on this forum fro proper setting, the output was about less that half the size of the original avi file. I realized that it is compressing the file, but I wondered if it could do minimal compression since the file was much less than a blank DVD (4.3GB). Yes, I was will to use a blank DVD for just one small file.
I then had put the topic away and just kept the captured avi files on my hard drive. Technology moved on and software came and went. Development stopped on the ones that I was looking at the time.
I decided to come back to the topic having realized I still have these files. Yes, I realize I probably don't need to convert them to DVD compliant files since the technology has made it easy to just play them on an LCD TV with a USB stick, if that TV has the built in decoder for them.
But still I would like to better understand if there is a way to 'convert' not 'transcode' these smaller avi files to DVD compliant files with minimal compression.
I spent the last few days searching through videohelp for answers. I now understand that CCE at the time was not a good app for audio. One older thread suggested not checking the audio part and just do the video only. Then extract the audio using VirtualDub and save it as a WAV. Then use AC3Machine to convert it to AC3. Then use GUI for dvdautor to produce a DVD compliant package.
In my search, I saw that a few of these apps are no longer being developed. So now I am looking to see what app is best to convert these small avi files to DVD compliant, with minimal compression and actual audio capture. Is CCE still considered the best program to do this?
Thanks
The files ranged in sizes, with a few over 9GB, but most were below 4.3GB.
I wanted to issue these files to family and friends as DVD, so I remembered in my search that CCE was recommended to first re-encode them to a DVD compliant files (mpa, mpv, vaf) then use GUI for dvdauthor to produce the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders that contained the VOB files needed to burn as a DVD.
I remembered that I tried it with two files, both were about 650MB. Again, GUI for dvd author didn't recognized them since they weren't DVD compliant files. So I think I had tried the trial of CCE. What I do recall was that following the guides on this forum fro proper setting, the output was about less that half the size of the original avi file. I realized that it is compressing the file, but I wondered if it could do minimal compression since the file was much less than a blank DVD (4.3GB). Yes, I was will to use a blank DVD for just one small file.
I then had put the topic away and just kept the captured avi files on my hard drive. Technology moved on and software came and went. Development stopped on the ones that I was looking at the time.
I decided to come back to the topic having realized I still have these files. Yes, I realize I probably don't need to convert them to DVD compliant files since the technology has made it easy to just play them on an LCD TV with a USB stick, if that TV has the built in decoder for them.
But still I would like to better understand if there is a way to 'convert' not 'transcode' these smaller avi files to DVD compliant files with minimal compression.
I spent the last few days searching through videohelp for answers. I now understand that CCE at the time was not a good app for audio. One older thread suggested not checking the audio part and just do the video only. Then extract the audio using VirtualDub and save it as a WAV. Then use AC3Machine to convert it to AC3. Then use GUI for dvdautor to produce a DVD compliant package.
In my search, I saw that a few of these apps are no longer being developed. So now I am looking to see what app is best to convert these small avi files to DVD compliant, with minimal compression and actual audio capture. Is CCE still considered the best program to do this?
Thanks
