How to compile various clips into a working DVD?

[Goblin]

I have been collecting various video clips for the past year and would like to put them all on a DVD that someone can just slap in the TV player and watch. I don't even need menus, just a DVD that plays all the clips in sequence from start to finish. The clips are not all the same format. Some are AVI, MPegs, real player etc. What is the best or easiest way to make my DVD? I want to give it to people in my family to play on a standard TV DVD player. Which software or shareware would get the job done? I have two Plextor burners, a 8x and newer 16x DL.

[Joe113]

A programme called winavi will convert all your files to dvd format and burn all of them to a dvd disc as one movie. You can set chapter lenght or leave it as each clip being a chapter.

[chaosmaker]

Jump down to the copytodvd forum read a few posts and see if this is what you want to try.

[jmet]

Here is another method you could use. 1) Use "TMPGEnc" (or "TMPGEncPlus") to convert the .AVI (DivX-compressed or otherwise) to compliant MPEG2-for-DVD format - You can use "TMPGEnc's" DVD wizard/template to accomplish this. 2) Use "TMPGEnc DVD Author" (a different program than "TMPGEnc") to easily create the required additional DVD files and structure (and chapters and a menu, if you wish). **If the combined file size of the DVD "package" written to your hard drive is greater than 4.37Gb, use DVD Shrink to compress it down to fit on your recordable media. If your operating system (O/S) is either Win2000 or WinXP, TMPGEnc DVD Author can also burn your DVD. Otherwise, use NERO to burn in "DVD-Video" mode - Tutorial Located here on how to do this: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=221453#post221453 TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_download.html TMPGEnc DVD Author - http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda.html

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