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OMG, the pain.. please end my misery
Im about to break down and cry.. All I bloody want is a few movie files on dvd->
This is the FIFTEENTH burning program that needs an encyclopedia to use.. Im not a computer tek, im just a guy who wants to addfiles and burn them. 2 steps, 3 tops.

Once it decodes 10 times as big as it should, rather than buffering and going str8 to dvd.. wtf do I do then?
Iv tried burning it from 5 different formats, toggling every friggn function I could find and I still cant use it.

WTF!!!!!!
Good karma to any who answer my call!

Well, it seems to me that if you need an encyclopedia to use Solid AVI/DIVX to DVD Burner, you're trying to do too much with it.

It also helps to ask a coherent question (I'm not trying to be a smarta$$, honestly). When you ask for help you really need to explain what you did and what happened. "Once it decodes 10 times as big as it should doesn't really mean much without details. And how do you calculate how much is correct without being a computer geek?

Give us some details including what you think is wrong and why, then we can help you figure out what's going on.

Any DVD burning program that produces video-compliant DVDs is going to need a lot of space. This is because of the DVD format specification that players use. A standard, single-sided DVD is 4.3 gig; dual-layer is twice that. When you consider that the program needs to convert the source video into this format, then convert the audio as well, combine the two, generate a subtitle image for each line of text in the subtitle file, merge all these together, then generate all the data structures that DVD players rely upon to know what's on the disk and build an image, you can easily see why it takes a while to get done and takes a considerable amount of space. This is not due to Solid AVI/DIVX to DVD Burner or any other transcoding application - it's due to the fact that the DVD spec calls for 720x480 video at 29.97 frames per second compressed in MPEG layer 2 format.

Solid AVI/DIVX to DVD Burner is probably the best program for those who are of the mindset, "Im not a computer tek, im just a guy who wants to addfiles and burn them", as you put it. Here are the steps to put "a few movie files on dvd":

1. Download and install the program.
2. Start it.
3. Enable burning in project options.
4. Click on Add Title.
5. Pick the file(s).
6. Click OK.
7. Click Create DVD.
8. Confirm.
9. Wish you had a faster computer.

This is more than "2 steps, 3 tops" and won't give you any menus, subtitles, or any of the other sweet features that make this such an awesome app, but it'll certainly produce a usable disk assuming you don't want to learn anything.


Without your asking a question more specific than "wtf do I do then?", this is about all the explanation I can give.

I admire and respect WaltP and Ruler (as well as others, like Exl, Kbosward, Neal, etc), they really care to help others.

Me, I'm strange and tend to respond to "wtf do I do then" with something like "wtf do I care what you do, learn like the rest of us, and read a few posts and search the forum".

Guzeppi wrote:I admire and respect WaltP and Ruler (as well as others, like Exl, Kbosward, Neal, etc), they really care to help others.

Me, I'm strange and tend to respond to "wtf do I do then" with something like "wtf do I care what you do, learn like the rest of us, and read a few posts and search the forum".

I am infinitely glad and thankful that there's people who are willing to help others out on here. I set up these forums thinking I would help the few people out who had problems, but that turned out to be far more than I could and can handle (5000 posts in less than a year...).

Well.. thanks for your patience, DVD lords:)I thought I might be appealing to the logic of those who want to market a sucessful product.. Somehow, I think I actually am. 5000 posts? Im all for userfriendliness..

I would like it to be as easy as Ruler suggested..
Once it insists on 'creating' the DVD on my computer drive..
How do I get it onto a disc?

BigJonMud wrote:Once it insists on 'creating' the DVD on my computer drive..
How do I get it onto a disc?

[quote='Ruler"]3. Enable burning in project options.[/quote]
3a. Click on Project settings.
3b. Click on Burn settings.
3c. Check Burn project to disk.


Or if you've already transcoded the video and built the dvd image on your hard drive, you can use a separate burning program to create a video DVD and add the contents of the <project destination directory>\dvd\VIDEO_TS folder to the VIDEO_TS folder of the disk you're burning.