AVI - DVD Conversion, Best app?

[AceCombat]

title says all.... i need a good free AVI to DVD converter

[snoopy]

FFmpeg.

It has presets so it's really quite simple to encode DVD-compliant mpegs.

I don't author DVD's much, so I can't speak to an authoring tool.

[Heretic]

Devede handles most video files.

[Warlock]

i use Xilisoft

[AceCombat]

okay now, how about up converting to 1080p?

[Heretic]

I think that most upconverting is done via hardware. I have no idea if there is software that does upconverting.

[Krom]

Your player or your TV does the upconversion, it is impossible to do at the disk / encoding level (on a DVD).

[Xamindar]

okay now, how about up converting to 1080p?

You could make a DVD in 1080p but it will probably not work on most players. Data rate requirement (remember, many dvd players are only 1x speed) will probably be too high. I have heard people make 1080p dvds that play in the ps3 but it only holds like 30-40 minutes of video and it probably wasn't in the actual dvd mpeg format. More like AVC or whatever bluray uses.

You can increase the encode resolution of video with just about any re-encoder/transcoder out there but why would you want to? Unlike what you see on CSI, you can't get information out of an image that wasn't there to begin with.

[Krom]

http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_vs_dvd_comparison

Bit rate for Bluray standard 1080p video+audio is roughly 5 times the DVD spec (because bluray disks are about 5 times larger than DVDs).

[Xamindar]

[AceCombat]

ok,well i do have a upconverting DVD Player.. so i guess standard def will work fine.


thanx