I would have reviewed it sooner but for some reason it had problems running on my Windows Server 2008 computer. I had previously used it to burn some YouTube videos (ripped using TubeMaster++) to DVD on another computer running Windows XP. Even though I had the job all set for one episode, I abandoned it in the middle of the conversion process to check out… DVD FlickĭVD Flick has actually been installed on my machine for a few months.
This might make sense in the case of a feature length movie but not when you’re hoping to convert multiple, comparatively short video files. There are a number of tutorials out there that explain the process but it still seemed a rather complicated one at that.įrom what I read, there is a way to get Avi2Dvd to burn multiple videos to a single disc but from what was apparent, it only converts and burns a single video per job. mp2 for disc menu background music.Ĭreating your own DVD disc menu is simple enough with the tools provided but they don’t seem to turn out that great looking at the hands of the novice. For example, one tool allows you to take snapshots and save them for the title images or the background of the DVD menu.
The different tools that were installed with Avi2Dvd are used to make these different processes easier. Within the job, you need to set the video input, the audio stream, the output, how it’s encoded, subtitles (if any), and create the DVD disc menu. You may have to do some renaming of your video files as there cannot be any non-alphanumeric characters in file names.
Once you get the software installed, you can load your video file and create a job for the conversion process. Sequential installers for each tool load one after another which makes for a lot of clicking and an annoying first impression.
Inside of that installer are several related free filters and tools including: Avisynth, AC3 filter, CoreAAC, MatroskaSplitter, FFdshow, and Xvid. Great! The freeware utility is Windows Vista and 7 compatible and comes in a 35 MB download. Avi2DvdĪvi2Dvd sounds like it would do exactly what I needed done and it even calls itself “ an All In One tool in order to convert with just few clicks an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Mp4/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd”.
The proposed applications for that approach came in the form of Avi2Dvd or DVD Flick. That brought me to the cheap and wire-free solution of converting the video files to DVD format that I could just burn to disc. I could hook a laptop up and I’ve even looked at the ASUS EeeKeyboard as a possible solution but those seemed either too much of a hassle or too expensive.
I have a Wii connected to that TV so I can use Netflix Streaming and I’ve had Orb setup to stream before but it would slow my PC down to a crawl too frequently. avi files on a standard TV with a DVD player. So, the task was to come up with a way to play. Of course, since I can’t do something in one place, that’s where I want to do it. At the other end of the house, I have just a standard TV and a DVD player.
Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, Avidemux, AviSynth, Adobe After Effects, Media Player Classic, VLC.At one end of the house, I have a Sony PS3 that can stream videos from my PC connected to a TV that can also play Divx and Xvid files from a USB drive. VOB files may be accompanied by IFO and BUP files. The VOB format is based on the MPEG program stream format but with additional limitations and specifications in the private streams. vob filename extension and are typically stored in the VIDEO_TS directory at the root of a DVD. An AVI file takes the form of a single chunk in a RIFF formatted file, which is then subdivided into two mandatory "chunks" and one optional "chunk".įiles in VOB format have a. In addition, files in VOB format may be encrypted.ĪVI is a derivative of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), which divides a file's data into blocks, or "chunks." A FourCC tag identifies each "chunk".
VOB can contain digital video, digital audio, subtitles, DVD menus, and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. VOB (Video Object) is the container format in DVD-Video media. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Video/vnd.avi, video/avi, video/msvideo, video/x-msvideoĪudio Video Interleaved (also Audio Video Interleave), known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software.