help with convter
 

i been trying to find a free convter so that i can convt my avi movies to a dvd so that it woul play on my home dvd player but i have han no look finding one does anyone know of one that i can get and were thank you:D

Nero 6 or 7 & Roxio easy cd/dvd creator will do the job. Else, there's also TMPGEnc which will also burn. There's many out there actually. Some better than others. Have a look at the Sticky thread in this section re: codecs & you'll find some links. And please, no double-posting on the forum.

thats what i have on my computer roxio and i have use the dvd creator to brun my movies but when i play them on my home dvd player they play then they start to frezzing up on me why is that is there anything that i can do to fixs this lord of the rings thanks :D

Which version of Creator do you have? I don't have it but I have the most recent Roxio Toast which is the mac version. It now allows you to set both the audio & video compression levels, specifically the bit rates. The audio also allows you to choose between PCM & Dolby Digital (AC-3) which is vaguely similar to mp3.

It sounds to me your freezing is due to the overall encoding bit-rate is too high. Best to have this 9.6 Mbps or under. Video maximum which includes motion estimation is best at 8.2 or less. 16 bit PCM audio uses just over 1.5 Mbps. Digital dolby-AC-3 encodes at up to 600 kbps or 0.6 Mbps. Toast offers a maximum of 448 kbps or 0.448 Mbps. That added onto video encoded at around 8 Mbps = about 8.5 Mbps. Video encoded at between 4-8 Mbps is fine! FYI the early commercial dvd's were all encoded at around 4 Mbps. But it may also depend on the quality of your source material. I use full PAL quality original source files for my general editing & dvd mastering. (But for material that's already been extracted from dvd (that's already compressed) & is then compressed again to either VCD/SVCD/Mpeg4 quality & size, then the quality of the source material will depend on how much compression used & quality of the encoders & quality of settings & perhaps the skills of the user.)

Even though the dvd definition allows for encoding is 10.08 Mbps (which includes requirement for video, audio & menus.) Few if any actual set-top dvd players on the market are built to handle this. In fact, many struggle to play anything above 9.5 Mbps or even less. So it's safest to try to keep your overall (video + audio) encoding bitrate at 9.2 Mbps or less. Try to stay away from PCM audio. AC-3 is arguably just as good & doesn't stress the player. It uses a fraction of the bit-rate & is much smaller in file size so leaving more space for video & menus, etc.

Encoding settings also depend on the length of the material & the disk you're outputting to. To fit 2 hrs or more onto a dvd-5 format disk (4.37 GB) means you will probably need to drop the video bit-rate down. But for a DVD-9 format disk, you should be fine so long as the overall bit-rate for encoding doesn't exceed much beyond 9 Mbps.

Also keep in mind, some older computers have dvd players that don't like high bit-rates. Your problem definitely sounds like a bit-rate problem to me. I hope this helps.

THE ONE I GOT CAME WITH MY DVD BRUNER IS V 6 AND WHEN I USE IT AND I PLAY THE MOVIES I BRUN USEING IT ON MY DVD PLAYER ON MY TV THE MOVIE ARE FREZZING UP ON

AFAIK the softw that comes with a burner is generally a "lite" version. ie: not the full version, so you may not have as many options. Check to see what audio & video quality options you have. Also try burning at minimum speed. Try it out on a dvd-rw if both your burner & set-top dvd player support dvd-rw. You could try taking the dvd disk into a shop & playing on their players at the point it generally freezes up & see if it does the same. You could also try using different dvd media although I don't think that's the issue. So these disks you've burnt play ok on the computer?

You can report your findings at either of the following forums: 1. http://www.videohelp.com/ & also
2. http://www.dvd-guides.com/ These sites also offer links to other converters if you need them.
Get back to us if you find what the problem was.

THANKS LORD OF THE RINGS I WILL TRY THAT:cool: