I have an avi that i want to put on a dvd. However, I think whoever made the file fucked it up, Nero won't let me open it in order to make a dvd. I tried using virtual dub to save it as another avi. I do this a lot when an avi is AC3 and the sound is too low and use the software to jack the volume up. It's never a problem and the new file is always the same size as the old. With this particular avi which is about 700mb, the new file is projected to be 37gig. And when virtualdub initially opens the file it finds a few problems with it. The file itself plays fine in windows media player and VLC. I used divx to dvd to convert it, which worked. But it's a concert and I want to put chapters in at each song. Preferably with a chapters menu but even just being able to skip from song to song would suffice. I used Nero to convert the dvd file to mp4, but I still can't open that in Nero to put in the chapters.

Any suggestions?

12/7/2005 11:36:18 PM

do you have the right codecs installed on your computer?

divx - http://www.divx.com (boo!)
xvid - http://www.koepi.org/XviD-1.1.0-Beta2-04042005.exe (yay!)

12/7/2005 11:41:58 PM

I have both, but like i said it plays fine. For some reason Nero just won't let me add it as a video file when i go to make a dvd.

12/7/2005 11:57:51 PM

I would try downloading the K-lite codec pack: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm It has all of the DivX and xvid and whatever codecs and has worked wonders for me.

You wouldn't happen to have Ulead DVD studio, would you? I've used that to do exactly what you're talking about, and I got no problems. That program comes with some capture cards and stuff, but if you have it, you might try giving that a shot.

Oh, and in the event you are able to put it in the correct format, but the file comes out too large (say 8 gigs and you're using single-layer 4.7 gig media), create a DVD image and then use DVD shrink to compress it down to DVD size. But if you know about Divx, I'm sure you have experience with DVD Shrink compression.

37 gigs seems a bit on the high side, though!

12/10/2005 1:11:39 AM