Making a DVD out of .avi files... problem with qdvdauthor...

Kuroyume · 09-19-2006, 09:27 PM

Well... i'm trying to make dvd's out of some avi files, but i face a couple of problems:

if i try to use avidemux/qdvdauthor (this is the ideal choice for me, since i want to have menus) qdvdauthor seems to be unable to give me an iso...

if i try to use devede, it encodes the audio in mp2, wich my PS2 can't play, so i am left with a dvd that won't work on my main dvd player...

anyone have any ideas on how to fix any of those two? i am running Kubuntu 6.06, with mplayer and mencoder installed...

HappyTux · 09-19-2006, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Kuroyume

Well... i'm trying to make dvd's out of some avi files, but i face a couple of problems:

if i try to use avidemux/qdvdauthor (this is the ideal choice for me, since i want to have menus) qdvdauthor seems to be unable to give me an iso...

if i try to use devede, it encodes the audio in mp2, wich my PS2 can't play, so i am left with a dvd that won't work on my main dvd player...

anyone have any ideas on how to fix any of those two? i am running Kubuntu 6.06, with mplayer and mencoder installed...

Not familiar with the qdvdauthor but you may want to look at Tovid, it has a gui you can use to make your menus and convert the video or you can use tovid on command line to convert .avi to .mpg then use the included todisc command line tool (with menus, background video, sound ...) to build a dvd disc structure that you can then burn to dvd or if Xine is installed preview before burning just to make sure you have it right.

AuldLochinvar · 03-24-2008, 03:06 PM

Hi, Kuroyome,
Never mind the iso.
Have you checked the last box in the long list of commands qdvdauthor displays? It says it will burn to DVD, but by default it's off. You probably got two folders, AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS on your target directory.
I usually look at the VIDEO_TS using Totem before I burn.
K3b will quite happily burn a playable DVD for you from that, using the File option "New DVD video project". Actually, unless your work is more sophisticated than the stuff I do, the AUDIO_TS is empty.
Cheers!