WinAVI Video Converter

[Spartan Erik]

Does anybody use this program? If so, what are your experiences with it, i.e. any products that are better?

 

[gavo2o]

i have not used it but i am also interested in finding out what others think of it

 

[disturbedart]

I have used this and on my pc i get errors while using it. But this may due to my pc.
But when i see it work it works well.

 

[lambada]

I've just recently (yesterday) uninstalled said program from my PC. I really can only give negative feedback. I left it converting overnight and looked in the morning to find it had errored and quit after converting only 3 seconds worth of video - (never mind the audio). :/

Although I know of others who have had better experiences.

 

[havoc]

I use both TMPGEnc Plus and winavi. The only problems I’ve ever had with Winavi was with .mkv and some ogm/ogg files. Winavi apparently doesn’t like a container with multiple audio streams and subtitles, and I’d almost be willing to bet that’s why it messed up whatever lambada was encoding. But if your gonna encode a avi, mpeg, ram, wmv, or any other standard format into a DVD, SVCD, or VCD Winavi should do nicely. You just have to make sure that all the codecs are properly installed. If you don't mind me askin, what type of files are you planning on encoding (avi,mpg) ?

 

[Spartan Erik]

I use both TMPGEnc Plus and winavi. The only problems I’ve ever had with Winavi was with .mkv and some ogm/ogg files. Winavi apparently doesn’t like a container with multiple audio streams and subtitles, and I’d almost be willing to bet that’s why it messed up whatever lambada was encoding. But if your gonna encode a avi, mpeg, ram, wmv, or any other standard format into a DVD, SVCD, or VCD Winavi should do nicely. You just have to make sure that all the codecs are properly installed. If you don't mind me askin, what type of files are you planning on encoding (avi,mpg) ?

Ah, no worries there; I have the K-lite codec pack which covers xvid .avi's, etc.

I have no trouble converting .avi's to DVD format files, but I'm just wondering whether or not the end product you make from it is good

 

[havoc]

Ah, no worries there; I have the K-lite codec pack which covers xvid .avi's, etc.

I have no trouble converting .avi's to DVD format files, but I'm just wondering whether or not the end product you make from it is good

I use K-lite codec pack aswell, and it works quite well(except for directvobsub).

The final products (at least in my case) have almost always turned out like (or almost like) the original input copy. So as long as your source files don't have graphic or audio abnormalities it should turn out quite well.

 

[trinsic]

I use the portable version and it works perfectly.

 

[Chris S]

well you never mentioned the program name to me on aim, but i've used that program and i belive that it was sweet, thought i may of uninstalled it

 

[rahul2006]

i have it but sharing is violating the rules

 

[Spartan Erik]

Well for those of you that have used it, I have a question

The program converts .avi files to DVD format files just fine; it creates the folder with the files, etc.

To make this a DVD, do I burn the folder that was created onto a DVD (through my CD/DVD burning software's DVD-burning function), or do I burn the files that were inside the folder that was created?

 

[havoc]

Well for those of you that have used it, I have a question

The program converts .avi files to DVD format files just fine; it creates the folder with the files, etc.

To make this a DVD, do I burn the folder that was created onto a DVD (through my CD/DVD burning software's DVD-burning function), or do I burn the files that were inside the folder that was created?

Well that might depend on which burning program you use as some will distinguish between the files that are suppose to be there and those that aren’t. Your best bet no matter which program you use, is to go into your newly created dvd directory usually dvd_0 and then into the VIDEO_TS folder and burn everything in that folder. Should be something like VIDEO_TS.BUP, VTS_01_0.BUP, VIDEO_TS.IFO, VTS_01_0.IFO, and VTS_01_1.vob. Depending on how long the movie/video is there could be multiple files for each .vob.

Btw if your using nero don’t use nerovision express(unless you want to create your own menu and whatnot) since it will try to re-encode the file even though you already did it(at least that happens in the version I have). Use the dvd video files option in plain old nero express. DVDLab Pro is also quite good.

 

[Spartan Erik]

Thanks havoc and everyone else for replying to this thread; I just made my first DVD successfully and it works great.. luckily Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 instructed me specifically on which files I needed

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