Conversion Tools

[Jackel12]

Hello all,

I just bought a DVD burner and I want to make my AVI movies into a dvd, so I can play them in my home dvd what would be a good tool to use to convert them over to dvd format? I am looking for some freeware tool, but if there isn't any then I am going to have to purchase it. any suggestions would be
great.

 

[LTR12101B]

Did you get anything useful with the burner?
There aren't many free MPEG2 (DVD) encoders, and even some you buy can be pretty poor (Nero).
CinemaCraft and Tmpgenc (plus/DVD author) seem to be well regarded

http://members.cox.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html BBMPG is one free one
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tools?tool=460 http://www.motiwala.com/ympeg.htm - YMPEG is another one (ALPHA - VERY alpha)
Note the requirements, SSE support is required - a Pentium 3 or Athlon XP Theoretically, a Coppermine (P3-based) Celeron or a Morgan core Duron or better should also meet the minimum SSE requirement

 

[celtic_druid]

ffmpeg is another free MPEG2 (also AC3, MPEG4, RV1, quicktime and others) encoder, supports numerous inputs, does multipass. Never really used it myself though.