Create A DVD With AVStoDVD
Open Source and free software programs that can replace specialized commercial software are constantly gaining quality. They are often the better solution to commercial software. A good example is AVStoDVD which can be used to create a DVD from video files.
The software supports many popular video formats like avi, flv, mpg and mov that can be added to the DVD. Both DVD-5 and DVD-9 are supported as well. One great feature of the software is that it automatically calculates the best Bitrate so that all movies that have been added fit on the selected DVD.
This takes some pressure from the user who does not want to have anything to do with bitrates and DVD quality. It's obviously not possible to add an unlimited amount of movies but if you can live with a reduce quality you can pack more film on the DVD.
The DVD creation process requires minimal input from the user. Experienced users on the other hand can customize the settings to optimize the output.
To create a DVD the user has to add movies to the video queue of the application. A click on Start starts the DVD creation. No other input whatsoever is required.
AVStoDVD creates a DVD by default which can be changed in the options. A dvd menu is for instance not required if the DVD contains only one movie but should be mandatory if it contains several movies. The menu can be edited by the user if he has the desire to do that.
Another interesting feature is the ability to add subtitles to each movie. That's as uncomplicated as the rest of the options.
The process to create a DVD took around 1:20 hours on my system. Creating a DVD-9 should take roughly double that time. Jobs can be queued so that it is possible to create several DVDs in one go.
Open Source and free software programs that can replace specialized commercial software are constantly gaining quality. They are often the better solution to commercial software. A good example is AVStoDVD which can be used to create a DVD from video files.
The software supports many popular video formats like avi, flv, mpg and mov that can be added to the DVD. Both DVD-5 and DVD-9 are supported as well. One great feature of the software is that it automatically calculates the best Bitrate so that all movies that have been added fit on the selected DVD.
This takes some pressure from the user who does not want to have anything to do with bitrates and DVD quality. It's obviously not possible to add an unlimited amount of movies but if you can live with a reduce quality you can pack more film on the DVD.
The DVD creation process requires minimal input from the user. Experienced users on the other hand can customize the settings to optimize the output.
To create a DVD the user has to add movies to the video queue of the application. A click on Start starts the DVD creation. No other input whatsoever is required.
AVStoDVD creates a DVD by default which can be changed in the options. A dvd menu is for instance not required if the DVD contains only one movie but should be mandatory if it contains several movies. The menu can be edited by the user if he has the desire to do that.
Another interesting feature is the ability to add subtitles to each movie. That's as uncomplicated as the rest of the options.
The process to create a DVD took around 1:20 hours on my system. Creating a DVD-9 should take roughly double that time. Jobs can be queued so that it is possible to create several DVDs in one go.
