Converting a Divx/Xvid Movie to DVD

[Dymond]

I have spent alot of time converting Divx and Xvid Encoded videos into DVD. Most of the time I do this for dvix/xvid videos of episodic nature such as 24 Episodes or Dragonball Z. There are converters now that will do alot of this however they can't always handle the special audio that are used with some divx/xvid video. Also they tend to a do a fairly shoddy job of reencoding.


Required Software:

1. VirtualDubMod
2. Audio Conversion Wizard
3. Canopus Pro Coder
4. TMPGEnc DVD Author
5. Divx/Xvid Codecs

Step 1: Determining the encoded Audio of the Divx/Xvid

1. launch VirtualDubMod and open up your Divx/Xvid video.

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2. Look at the Audio Stream for the video.

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3. If your stream looks like this skip to Step 3: Converting the video to DVD.

MP3 Audio
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4. If your stream looks like this skip to Step 2: Converting .OGG audio into .Wav.

OGG Audio
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5. If your stream looks like this skip to Step 4: Converting to DVD with Dolby Digital Stream(AC3).

AC3 Audio (Dolby Digital)
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Note: Some Videos will come with more than one stream AND may also contain the subtitle streams in this list. This tutorial only shows how to carry one audio stream over to be reencoded into the DVD.

[Dymond]

Step 2: Converting .OGG audio into .Wav

Canopus Procoder will be used to convert the video into a DVD VOB file. However it does not like the .ogg format and you will end up with a silent DVD if you do not convert it first. (if this has changed please let me know.)

1. Extract the Audio from the video by highlighting the stream and clicking 'Demux'

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2. Give the .ogg file a name and save it somewhere you can find it easily.

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3. You should see this as its processing.

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4. Once its done you want to disable this stream. Click the disable button.

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Disabled Stream
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5. Open up Audio Conversion Wizard, on the first screen make sure conversion mode is set to 'single' and click 'Next'

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6. On the next screen click 'Browse' and find the .ogg audio file you demuxed from your video. Once you have found it click 'next.

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7. On this screen you will choose what you want to convert the audio to. I always use .wav because its uncompressed which means it will be faster when its reconverted however MP3 will also work. Click the Radio button of your choice and click 'Next'.

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8. The defaults on this next screen are fine so go ahead and click 'Next' again.

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9. The next screen wants to know where your going to save it. I leave 'Convert into the source folder' checked which will save the new file to the same location as the old audio file. I also check 'delete source after conversion'so that it removes the .ogg file once its done converting it. Click 'Next'.

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10. Click next through the next two screens and the conversion should begin.

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The program will automatically close when its done.

11.We will now add the new audio back into the video. From the VirtualDubmod Stream list screen click the 'Add' button.

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With added stream
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12. Click OK at the Stream Screen to close it. Now we will recreate the video with the supported audio. Click on File - Save As

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From this screen give the video a new name and pick where you want to save it. Also since we aren't doing any other conversion at this point make sure that the Video Mode is set to 'direct stream copy'. otherwise it tries to reconvert the video at this time and takes forever!

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Video Mode
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13. Click 'Save' and the new more audio friendly version gets created.

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Once its done this video is ready to be converted to DVD. You can close VirtualDubMod.

[Dymond]

Step 3: Converting the video to DVD


You are now ready to use Canopus Procoder to convert the movie into ready to burn DVD files.

1. open up Procoder and click the 'Add' button from the Source Screen

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2.Browse to where your video file is. if you came here from step 2 it will be the video file you created at the end of that step. Click the 'Open' button to bring it into the program.

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Procoder with video loaded
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3. Click the 'Target' tab to tell ProCorder what you want to convert the source into.

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4. Click the 'Add' button to choose a conversion type.

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5. this will bring up the 'Load Target Preset' Box. Choose Either MPEG2-DVD-NTSC(VOB) or MPEG2-DVD-NTSC(PAL) depending on what your TV type is.

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6. Click 'OK' and your screen should look similar to this.

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7. Click the 'Convert' tab and it will bring you to the 'Convert' Screen. All you have to do is click the 'Convert' button on the bottom and the program will do the rest.

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WARNING:This conversion can take a very long time depending on your processor so I would suggest you do this right before you go to bed/work/school so that it can run uninterrupted.

8. When the conversion is completed it will say 'Conversion Completed'. By default the program stores the VOB files in your 'My Documents' directory in a folder called 'MPEG2_DVD_NTSC(VOB)'or 'MPEG2_DVD_PAL(VOB)'.

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9. If you open this folder you will see two subfolders; VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. Use your favorite DVD burning software to burn these folders to DVD or DVD Authoring software to add menus and titles before burning.

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Note: The TMPGEnc DVD Author program that I listed as required has the ability to burn DVDs as well as author them.

Step 4: Converting to DVD with Dolby Digital Stream(AC3).

-Coming Soon-

[kurtis469]

hey so i can use this to convert ogg. files to avi ????

[TJ60]

ok but i use sonic record now? the only problem i have is getting a whole movie to fit on one disc.

[kurtis469]

ok but i use sonic record now? the only problem i have is getting a whole movie to fit on one disc.

check out dvd shrink thats what i use to copy dvd's and it will compress it and it uses bero to burn the files