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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
Hello.  I have started capturing VHS videotapes into AVI file format, but some people want me to give the disc to them as a DVD rather then a data file. Can anyone recommend a free DVD writing software? All I need to do, is take an AVI file, and write it to a DVD as a DVD-video format. No menus are required, but it would be a bonus. Suggestions? Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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TassyJim Guru  Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6101 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DVD_authoring_software VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
Thanks. EDIT: DVD flick seems to work well, but 10fps encode rate - pretty bad.  Free, yes, but still..... Celeron 2GHz dual-core, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD. Would have expected better performance on the encoding then 10fps...... CPU usage at 42% even during full encode. Nice easy GUI, but this is pretty horrible. Will take more then THREE HOURS to encode to DVD, a file I captured in real-time in a little over one hour. Any other suggestions? Edited 2023-05-24 18:48 by Grogster Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| toml_12953 Guru Joined: 13/02/2015 Location: United StatesPosts: 339 |
I use Freemake Video Converter. It's free and lets you create menus. https://www.freemake.com |
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Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1114 |
every frame has to be encoded to Mpeg2 This is time consuming if the program didn't use the GPU for transcoding. I used to use TMPEG for Encoding and Nero Vison for the creation of DVDs including menu. Started in the evening and in the morning the DVD was ready. But that was 15 years ago Edited 2023-05-24 22:54 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4247 |
Memory okay, bit cpu not the fastest. What can you expect?. One thing you can check is if the variable bitrate flag is set. If so you can gain some performance using fixed bitrate. But the files may be larger, filling the dvd faster. Also note that the noisier the source material, the lower the compression ratio. Volhout Suggestion, use 1pc to capture, another to author dvd. Maybe you can even let your NAS do it when you sleep... Edited 2023-05-25 04:46 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
OK, format to DVD complete - took NINE HOURS and 45 mins, for a 70min source AVI. Better then that. I had a Pinnacle DV/AV capture card on Windows XP with 4GB of RAM about ten years ago, and it could encode the raw AVI to DVD at about 50fps. It was an AthlonXP CPU from what I remember, which IS a more juicy CPU then this NUC designed for economy, so perhaps I am simply not being fair to the NUC and to DVD flick.  I will see if I can dig out one of my slightly older, but much more juicy CPU boxes and run another encode. Still, even on THIS NUC, I would have thought that the encoding process would have pushed the CPU up to 100%.... The CPU was not even being pushed, sitting around 40% all the time. Still, I like the nice easy user interface of DVD flick, and I guess if I just make sure that I set it going before I go to bed, it can churn away there all night and the files are ready the next day, so there is that. I will dig out one of my other PC's and see if it runs better on that. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4247 |
Maybe the encoder can only use a single core? Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
Perhaps. I never researched that deep into their docs, but I might check on that. But you'd expect ANY new-ish video editor/coder to make use of any and all cores it could detect these daze.... Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| austfox Newbie  Joined: 05/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 18 |
I use the AVS suite of software and it looks like their AVS Video Convertor is free with no restrictions. It's been a while since I have converted any videos, so not sure how well it works, but their other programs work well (at least for my needs). |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
Thanks - I had totally forgotten about AVS! I used to use their software years ago. As you mentioned, DVD writing is pretty much a non-event for most people these days, with the capacity of modern USB flash drives, you just copy the video files and flick the USB drive at them. However, I do still have a collection of mostly older people who just want their old home movies converted into DVD's, cos they don't have a computer, so there is still the odd time when I need to create DVD's, but it's so infrequent now, that I use an external DVD-writer drive! Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9308 |
UPDATE: Further to this, the 9 hour DVD encode via DVD Flick has corrupted video from 10 mins in - the video goes totally nuts, so that is a failed encode. However, AVS Video Converter took the source video and converted it to a DVD in just under 25 mins - that's more like it!  And the video is not corrupted, it plays correctly all the way through. We have a winner!  Only wish I had remembered the AVS softwares before now. Oh well. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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