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Hi, all -

Perhaps I'm an idiot and I'm missing something pretty obvious, but I'm a noobie so please be patient with me...

I had been using DVD Maker (which came with Windows Vista Home Premium) to burn DVDs from a series of AVIs that I have on my HD. I don't really like DVD Maker because it has some major limitations, so I decided to download and try Avi2Dvd instead.

Using DVD Maker, I had been able to put 3 AVIs on each DVD (each AVI = about 43 minutes). It allowed each AVI to be selected as a separate scene from the on-disc menu it creates. I can find no way to do this using Avi2Dvd.

In fact, I cannot find any way to put more than one AVI on a single DVD using Avi2Dvd. Since I find it hard to understand how this basic capability could be left out, I figure it must be there somewhere and I simply cannot find it.

Can someone help me understand how I can put 3 or 4 AVIs onto a single DVD using Avi2Dvd, and be able to choose between them from a menu during playback?

I can't help you with a menu item for each avi you want to convert, but if you rename the avi's with the same name, but end each in CD1, CD2, etc in the order you want them to be in the program will automatically join them during conversion. For example:

movie1.avi --> movie cd1.avi
somemove.avi --> movie cd2.avi
anothermovie.avi --> movie cd3.avi

Your output will be "movie joined.avi" and you will have a video_ts file with all the avi's as one movie.


Hope that helps

Thanks for the reply, kef0913!

So if I understand you correctly, what you propose is that I allow the program to join, say, three AVIs (three separate episodes) into a single movie file and then burn that to the DVD. Assuming that works, that would indeed get the contents of the three episodes to the disc, but there would be no breaks between them and no way to jump to the start of episode #2 or #3.

Much as I appreciate your reply, this is not a viable solution for me. I really want to keep the episodes separate.

It seems a shame that Avi2Dvd doesn't seem to support this seemingly basic functionality. Unless someone knows some way I can put multiple episodes on a disc using Avi2Dvd, I may have to go back to DVD Maker.

Hi,

I tried the steps below and it didn't seem to work. Can it be [any word] cd1.avi or does it have to be movie cd1.avi?

Also the help file has a space between cd and 1 so movie cd 1.avi instead of movie cd1.avi

Any help would be appreciated

Chris

kef0913 wrote:I can't help you with a menu item for each avi you want to convert, but if you rename the avi's with the same name, but end each in CD1, CD2, etc in the order you want them to be in the program will automatically join them during conversion. For example:

movie1.avi --> movie cd1.avi
somemove.avi --> movie cd2.avi
anothermovie.avi --> movie cd3.avi

Your output will be "movie joined.avi" and you will have a video_ts file with all the avi's as one movie.


Hope that helps

i have the same problem as beerslayer
i can burn different avis in a single dvd by renaming them (avi cd1, avi cd2 etc) but there is no way to jump to the start of the 2nd or 3rd avi i've burned.

i tried to do this by the chapter list in step2 (output) by setting the chapters length matching to the start of each avi i've burned (this way i wouldnt have chapters in the dvd but at least i could find the episodes i've burned when watching the dvd) but it didnt work. when i pressed go! the setting just went back to chapter every 6min and started converting that way

Hi

I have just started using this thing. I finally overcame my subtitle problem and I was able to create a DVD with a subtitle. The problem is that it'll only utilize one mkv file. For instance, I have the following files

Gundam CD1.mkv
Gundam CD2.mkv
Gundam CD3.mkv
Gundam CD4.mkv
Gundam CD5.mkv

Gundam CD1.srt
Gundam CD2.srt
Gundam CD3.srt
Gundam CD4.srt
Gundam CD5.srt

I get the text below. Can anyone clue me in to why it won't combine the CD's. When I just do the first mkv file with only the first srt file and take off the "CD1" part of the extensions I get a fine DVD but I'd like all five files together.

Please let me know.

Thanks!

[10:18:07 PM] AVI2DVD Started !
[10:18:08 PM] Type mode : Avi Input
[10:18:08 PM] Output : Dvd
[10:18:08 PM] Encoder Selected : QuEnc
[10:18:08 PM] Video Join ...
[10:18:14 PM] Video Joined successfully!
[C:\Users\User\Videos\Gundam 0079\Gundam CD
Joined.mkv -1 Bytes]
[10:18:14 PM] Job NOT Done. There are warnings ... Find
at the log file the 0 byte generated file to focus where
exactly the problem appears

I think the problem is with AVI-Mux GUI, if your using Windows Vista. There's a compatiblity issue with it, I can't figure out how to solve. If someone knows how to solve this issue please give me the answer. Whenever I hit the GO button after loading a file, an error message stating AVI-Mux GUI has stopped working appears, so I'm sure it's the problem, in my case.

chrisfs wrote:Hi,

I tried the steps below and it didn't seem to work. Can it be [any word] cd1.avi or does it have to be movie cd1.avi?

Also the help file has a space between cd and 1 so movie cd 1.avi instead of movie cd1.avi

Any help would be appreciated

Chris

"movie cd1.avi", "movie cd2.avi", etc. Space between movie and cd, no space between cd and the number.

That was the only way it would work for me.

You still can only add one file to a job, and each job has to have a different output folder, but I was able to get avi2dvd to join separate avi into a single iso using that exact naming convention. After hitting "GO !!!" it joined the 2 avi files I had in 2 jobs.

(At least it looks like it's working so far. I've got the "movie CD Joined.avi" and encoding is in progress.)

if the movies have different bitrate jst use FOTO2AVI and select as output DVD
It cannot handle menus but does the conversion really easily .
Give a try

kemm10 wrote:I think the problem is with AVI-Mux GUI, if your using Windows Vista. There's a compatiblity issue with it, I can't figure out how to solve. If someone knows how to solve this issue please give me the answer. Whenever I hit the GO button after loading a file, an error message stating AVI-Mux GUI has stopped working appears, so I'm sure it's the problem, in my case.

kemm10: under Vist change AVI-Mux GUI to run in XP Compatibility Mode by right clicking AVIMux_GUI.exe in C:\Program Files\Avi2Dvd\Programs\AVIMuxGUI\