Burning taking too long---over 8 hours!

Rook25 2006-05-18 12:15:09 UTC #1

burnt my first DVD movie from scratch...as in i took various video files...put them on a dvd caus ei wanted them to play on a dvd player and not ONLY my computer like was happening before...had to make my own menus, chapters of the clips etc....that was simple

I used Nero Vision Express 3
the files were avi files....the files had to be transcoded apparently--that is what it said while it was burning...dont know if that is what cause it to take that long....

also...the 7 files i put on the dvd were 850 mb or so....but when i import them into the program...it showed it was over 4GB in size??
what is causing these 2 problems....the time to burn and size??

thanks

haveacigar 2006-05-18 12:18:09 UTC #2

It takes this long because it has to transcode the video from .avi to .mpeg2, this does take a while, and before you ask about speeding up time, it is possible, but dont expect the quality to be as good as when you transcode at a lower speed. The burning time should only be 10-30 mins.

TimC 2006-05-18 15:19:02 UTC #3

There's no problem with the size as this is what happens when going from AVI to DVD movie format. The avi files have a codec which is basically video compression and a 700mb avi with compression could be up to 7gb without the compression codec.

Rook25 2006-05-19 15:27:44 UTC #4

is there a way to transcode the files separately...1 by 1...then burn the dvd after??

so my computer isnt tied upf or so long

weedougie 2006-05-20 06:33:36 UTC #5

Does your DVD player play AVI's, mine does yours just might?

arpitkumar 2006-05-21 02:09:59 UTC #6

Well i had the same problem with nero vision.its not such a graet software afterall. While trying to transcode it just gave up. Three of my top quality dvd r are rendered useless coz of that. My question is, "Is it possible to use those dvd+r which were stopped, i mean the disc info shows that dvd has space, i am able to even write on it using nero, but with windows explorer it shows no files"

Now for the problem of nero vision, i'll suggest u a very nice method. Get winavi 7.5, individually encode all the avi s to dvd format. u can use batch mode, but be sure to uncheck the 'merge files' option. Then u 'll have three seperate directories having three seperate movies. Use DVD-Shrink to compress them and burn and u'll have all movies in the same dvd. its the fastest method by far.

Rook25 2006-05-21 12:31:36 UTC #7

not sure if my dvd player can play avi files...

how can i find that out? cause as i said b4...when i add the files to nero vision express 3 they are transcoded and this takes a long time

TimC 2006-05-21 16:02:40 UTC #8

It will clearly state whether it is Divx capable.

arpitkumar 2006-05-22 01:31:46 UTC #9

to play avi files, divx would be clearly mentioned on the player