Posted by The Wizard on 09/19/05 01:39

<shnaggletooth@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1127093837.524368.66170@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> I've got two TV seasons of excellent quality .avi's that I want to burn
> onto DVD for use on my standalone player, but I'm trying to decide
> among the millions of different software packages that will do the
> trick.
>
> As I'm typing this, The FilmMachine is currently running in the
> background, converting (hopefully) two episodes for one DVD-5. Time
> remaining: 5 hours. Urgh. And I don't even know how the quality will
> turn out. (I'm using CCE as my encoder, with 4 passes).

Well, There's the first mistake, Your PC is using a lot of processor to do
the converting..You'll probably find parts of the picture unwatchable whilst
your Hard Drive/Memory etc went into overdrive to open your mailing program!
You should just leave your PC to do it's thing when converting or burning to
disc.

> So what about DivXtoDVD and WinAVI? Are they and The FilmMachine about
> equal in producing video quality? What about speed?

Not used any personally but DivXtoDVD is mentioned quite a lot on the group
as is WinAVI,Strangely I've not heard The Film Machine mentioned before :-(

T.W.

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