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Why do people insist on converting avi to DVD?
For all the time spent on converting to DVD, why are people still making their avi's into DVD's?
The cost of DVD players that can play divx/xvid files is incredibly low. One of the best for the price if the Phillips DVP5960 at about $70 US everyday at Wal-Mart. Even cheaper on sale.
Is it really worth all the time spent converting to DVD? You lose image quality, and besides, DVD's are more expensive than CD. (Granted, not that much more these days).
A lot of players, including the 5960, have a USB port on the front so you don't even need to burn to disk. Just use a Flash drive or external hard drive.
Wouldn't you rather save up $70 and not waste 4-5 hours of processing time?
I would much rather have the time spent downloading more content than used converting.
So very very sad.
Thumbs down to Terrence B Knows.
I asked about converting to DVD, not KVCD. And No you are not putting 4-5 movies on siongle DVD in DVD format.
IF you are putting that many one, then to get the compression donw that much, your are spending 4-5 hours on it.
Also, KVCD is garbage compared to the original source file (.avi's 90% of the time).
Don't believe me? Get the same file in both formats and play them side by side.
Yeah - I will go with JsK and "People are stupid".
As for miniDVD degrading, only on a very good TV/DVD player combo. The smapling rate for Standard DVD can not display the full frame rate no matter what you do with the miniDVD. Add to that the stand 60mhz signal of NTSC.
Howeever, I imagine that HD-DVD or BLuRay can make better use of those source tapes.
I film on miniDVD as well for the past 6 years and there is no difference in quality between the source tape and converted material on a traditional NTSC tv.
Hopefull will get HDTV soon and may e will see the difference there.
3 Answers
- 1 decade ago
Lowest common denominator. Some people still shoot video to VHS tapes. You go with what you know. I don't even know where to source AVI from. My camcorder outputs a miniDV format at 25 Mbits/sec. Going to DVD severely degrades the quality.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
4-5 hours for you
it doesn't take me that long
I convert to KVCD putting my movies on cd's
if I put movies on dvd I am putting more than one
more like 5 movies on a dvd
so the choice to me is
its easy to do
if I want dvd quality I would just buy the dvd if its good enough
else kvcd of dvd rips if fine for me
