Fit to disc doesn't work?

smashguy37 wrote on 10/20/2007, 8:35 AM
My brother wants to put this .avi file on to DVD. I've had this problem in the past, but the .avi is only 679MB and when I import it into DVD Architect 3, it says that it's 22 gigs. If I use the fit to disc option, it just says the bit rate is too low for it to be burned onto a DVD. I'm going to try converting it to MPEG for now, but it'll take a while. Anybody know why DVDA does this?

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MPM wrote on 10/21/2007, 9:11 AM
DVD video has to meet certain specs. DVDA like many other authoring apps is trying to help out when it says your video won't work & offers solutions.

As an avi file can be almost anything -- any codec and/or frame size -- any fps &/or duration, can't really say more without knowing something about the avi file. Also the estimates you see in DVDA in this case are commonly off.

I'd suggest doing as you've posted, converting the video to DVD spec 1st, then importing. TO do the conversion there are several tools available that might take care of many of the variables for you -- sort of an import vid and select DVD kind of thing. That or just burn the file if DviX/Xvid to disc and see if your player handles it.
bStro wrote on 10/21/2007, 11:56 AM
when I import it into DVD Architect 3, it says that it's 22 gigs.

For the record, that number you see in the bottom right corner isn't the "size" of your AVI, but rather what DVD Architect estimates the project will be once it gets done re-encoding everything to MPEG2 at the bitrate(s) you have chosen. Or, if you haven't set any bitrates, then DVD Architect's default bitrate of 8Mb/sec.

Now, while MPM is correct in that DVD Architect tends to overestimate, that estimate of 22GB is especially high and implies that your AVI is around (at the default re-encode rate of 8Mb/sec) is in the area of six hours. Which is way to much to put on a single layer DVD, and probably not even a great idea for a dual layer DVD.

If my guess at the length of your AVI is off, something is really screwy (or my math is -- someone check). Maybe the file is curropt and throwing of DVD Architect's calculations.

Rob
MPM wrote on 10/24/2007, 11:59 AM
My guess would be one of the mp4 types (DivX/Xvid?) assuming a downloaded movie on CD... I'm *guessing* DVDA's going nuts trying to go with whatever info it can gather from the file. The 6 hour estimate is probably good otherwise -- just can't think of anything watchable that'd be that long and fit on a CD?
smashguy37 wrote on 11/3/2007, 10:08 AM
I had this problem back in the summer when I was trying to do the same thing. I ended up (this time) using SUPER to convert it to MPEG2, but this is the original file information that DVDA would be reading:

480 by 360, audio bit rate of 134kbps (MPEG Layer-3), 29 fps and a data rate of 93kbps.