AVI to DVD format Freeware?

[MAMEngineer]

I have a project I am working on for a WWII museum. I want to provide
video-taped interviews as a DVD the museum can keep for some time to come...
any good Windoze freeware to convert AVI to DVD format?

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While one person hesitates
because he feels inferior, the
other is busy making mistakes
and becoming superior.

-Henry C. Link

 

[Trey Hunner]

MAMEngineer said the following on 4/28/2004 2:36 PM:

I have a project I am working on for a WWII museum. I want to provide
video-taped interviews as a DVD the museum can keep for some time to come...
any good Windoze freeware to convert AVI to DVD format?

I actually need software that does just the opposite of this (a DVD to
an AVI file). I haven't been able to find either type.

 

[colinco]

I actually need software that does just the opposite of this (a DVD to
an AVI file). I haven't been able to find either type.

As usual with this type of software you should be looking in Doom9's
forums for help

 

[Thip]

I have a project I am working on for a WWII museum. I want to provide
video-taped interviews as a DVD the museum can keep for some time to come...
any good Windoze freeware to convert AVI to DVD format?

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DVD2SVCD will do that. I don't think the encoder(s) is/are free unless you
can find an early version of TMPGEnc (which will work fine and is the only
add-on DVD2SVCD requires). Try doing a Google.

http://www.dvd2dvd.org/

 

[Spoon2001]

MAMEngineer said the following on 4/28/2004 2:36 PM:


I actually need software that does just the opposite of this (a DVD to
an AVI file). I haven't been able to find either type.

Have a look at DVD2AVI
http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~jackei/dvd2avi/

 

[Ben Cooper]

I have a project I am working on for a WWII museum.

[snip]

I only ask because I'm interested in knowing more about this, for
personal reasons.
Which WWII museum?
Is this a commercial project or a volunteer project?

Feel free to contact me OFF-GROUP, if you care to answer.
The address in my signature is good.

 

[Spoon2001]

I have a project I am working on for a WWII museum. I want to provide
video-taped interviews as a DVD the museum can keep for some time to
come... any good Windoze freeware to convert AVI to DVD format?

this may be helpful -
http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?howtoselect=4;10#4;10
How to convert to DVD MPEG2
http://www.videohelp.com/convert#4;10

 

[rach]

DVD2SVCD will do that. I don't think the encoder(s) is/are free unless you
can find an early version of TMPGEnc (which will work fine and is the only
add-on DVD2SVCD requires). Try doing a Google.

http://www.dvd2dvd.org/

That's a great tool, and I use it all the time. But yeah, you need a
commercial mpeg2 encoder.

 

[MAMEngineer]

I only ask because I'm interested in knowing more about this, for
personal reasons.

No problem...

Which WWII museum?

It is a museum in France, I'll know more once the project gets rolling. The
museum is in the town where the pilot I mentioned was shot down.

Is this a commercial project or a volunteer project?

I am volunteering my time and equipment.

Feel free to contact me OFF-GROUP, if you care to answer.
The address in my signature is good.

It's not a secret or anything. I work with an 80 year old hydrologist. His
brother (now 85 years old) was shot down near a coastal city in france. A
diver found the wreckage of his plane (nearly intact!) and contacted him. A
whole series of events followed, including interviewing the pilot and
several of the still living witnesses to the event.

 

[Ben Cooper]

No problem...


It is a museum in France, I'll know more once the project gets
rolling. The museum is in the town where the pilot I mentioned was
shot down.

Please forgive me if I missed something, but I don't see where you
mentioned a pilot.

I am volunteering my time and equipment.

I understand.

It's not a secret or anything. I work with an 80 year old
hydrologist. His brother (now 85 years old) was shot down near a
coastal city in france. A diver found the wreckage of his plane
(nearly intact!) and contacted him. A whole series of events
followed, including interviewing the pilot and several of the still
living witnesses to the event.

What an interesting series of events! I'd really like to know more, so
I'm asking nicely... if this project works out, would you be able to
provide me with a copy of your final DVD?

 

[MAMEngineer]

Please forgive me if I missed something, but I don't see where you
mentioned a pilot.

I posted a more detailed explanation on a private group:

I have been asked to help in a project for a museum in France. The museum
is dedicated to America and American's who died in the liberation of France.
(HONESTLY!) The person who asked me to help is the brother of a pilot who
was shot down over France and held prisoner in Germany. Anyhow, they have a
bunch of interviews and such on VHS that the museum wants converted to DVD
format.

What an interesting series of events! I'd really like to know more, so
I'm asking nicely... if this project works out, would you be able to
provide me with a copy of your final DVD?

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