Info on How to Burn Movies (with Subtitles), Songs and Conversion Guide

[imp]

How to burn images (.iso, .bin, etc.) - usful when burning any media (movies, games, etc.)

What are these files?

These files are clone CDs of the legit retail version...by burning these images, you are burning the retail CD...and thus you get the exact files you get in the original CD on the CD in which you are burning...did that sound confuesing? lol

To burn these images onto a CD follow these steps:

1. Download Nero Burning Rom
2. Goto "Nero" on start menu
3. Move Crusor to Nero 6 Ultra Edition
4. Move Crusor to nero express
5. Select "Disc Image or saved product"
Choose the .cue file to burn the .bin file (The .cue file is a file required in recognizing the .bin file...so in order to burn the .bin file you need to start the process by first opening .cue - it would automatic "path" to the .bin file and start burning)

Choose the .iso file to burn the .iso file

If you are to burn .mdf images, you must need alcohol 120 percent program to burn...nero does not allow burning of those files...

1. Download Alcohol 120 percent
2. Open Alcohol 120 percent
3. Click on image burning wizard on the left hand side
4. Click on browse
5. Choose the associated .mdf file you want to burn (so .mds file) - same idea as the .bin file

IF you do not want to burn these files, you can set up these CD in a virtual drive...a drive that tricks ur comp letting them know a "CD" is in the "HD"

You can either use alcohol 120 percent or Deamon Tools to do this

If Deamon tools then follow these steps:

1. Download Deamon Tools (simply search for this on google)
2. Open Deamon tools
3. On your task bar...a deamon tool icon would show up...right click that icon
4. Goto Virtual CD/DVD Rom
5. Goto Device 0: [the virtual drive ] No Media
6. Click on Mount Image
7. Choose the image you wish to mount
8. It would auto load just like a CD but on ur HD...or if it doesn't load...just goto My Computers, and double click on the virtual drive

If Alcohol 120 percent

1. Open Alcohol 120 percent
2. At the bottom double click on virtual CD/DVD-Rom(0), until a drive pops up
3. Right click that drive, click on mount image, and choose the image in which u would like to mount

If you want to burn a Audio CD...simply follow these steps [When your cd player does not support MP3/WMA]:

- This burns by time

1. Download Nero Burning Rom
2. Goto "Nero" on start menu
3. Move Crusor to Nero 6 Ultra Edition
4. Move Crusor to nero express
5. Goto music, then choose Audio CD
6. Click on add
7. Choose the songs you want to add (hint: highlight if you want to add more than one at a time)
8. Click on Add
9. When finsh adding all the songs...click on finsh
10. Click next
11. Then click on burn

If you want to burn a mp3 CD...simply follow these steps [When your cd player does support MP3/WMA]

- This burns by "size" - advantage, now you can burn 200 songs onto one CD!

1. Download Nero Burning Rom
2. Goto "Nero" on start menu
3. Move Crusor to Nero 6 Ultra Edition
4. Move Crusor to nero express
5. Click on data
6. Click on data disc
6. Click on add
7. Choose the songs you want to add (hint: highlight if you want to add more than one at a time)
8. Click on Add
9. When finsh adding all the songs...click on finsh
10. Click next
11. Then click on burn

How to burn VCDs, when you DO NOT have an image, instead u have either .dat or .mpeg files

1. Download Nero Burning Rom
2. Goto "Nero" on start menu
3. Move Crusor to Nero 6 Ultra Edition
4. Move Crusor to nero express
5. Goto Video/Pictures
6. Click on Video CD
7. Click on Add
8. Click on the movie you want to burn [either .dat or .mpg file]
9. Click on add
10. Click on Finsh
11. Click on next
12. click on burn

Burning Subtitles (subtitle files onto avi file)

Explained carefully here (http://divxstation.com/article.asp?aId=100) and then you need to convert the file to DVD (if you plan to watch it on a DVD player) unless you got a dvd player that plays divx

Format not avi, see the conversion guide below

Conversion Guide: AVI, MPEG1/2/4, VCD/SVCD/DVD, DivX, XVid, ASF, WMV and RM/RMVB

Simple answer : Winavi (shareware but can be found on any known BT site)

For Example: RM to DVD

Click on Menu, Convert, Any to DVD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG (or click on the circle icons to the right hand side of the screen)

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3088/untitledyo6.jpg

and then pick your RM file, after you done that you get the screen below

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/9699/untitledkm0.jpg

Select your preferred output desination and then click on the Advanced tab, here you can change the the size of the output file by quality, etc to whatever you want

then click ok and you be back to the 2nd screenshot then click ok to convert

"To Burn" click on the Menu and "Burn Disc" (see 1st screenshot) or click on this icon http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2553/untitledrk4.jpg

and then you burning application should run and you can choose to burn finished file to DVD/VCD, etc

[b-lee]

Nice Guide Stickied

[DanK]

RM!! i dont know what they are, but ive dealt with them before and ended up just trashing them cuz i didnt know how to play them

[daochich]

just wonder the nero can burn the movie with subtitle or not ? hm
Ashampoo Burning Studio 5 can do anything that nero does with only 2 steps : click and burn.
thank for the guide!

[Fobstar]

hmm im not sure if they could do that but maybe im wrong, ok i just made this a useless post. sorry

[thechanmanxd]

nice guide ! thanks

[Danny]

yea does anybody know what softwares to convert RMVB files that I can play on my DVD player. I am having major problems here with RMVB, I want to watch it on my DVD player...thanks.

[iyori]

Use RM Converter, this will convert RM, RAM and RMVB files.

[shy]

Thanks for the info, imp, but I was wondering...does anyone know how to burn .BUP or .IFO files? NERO seems to be able to burn all files except for these 2... :(

[Thisdamngood]

Does anyone know where I can download a free RM converter without going through the trial period stuff?

[proxay]

i hav a question about .srt (subtitles) files. HOw do u burn them onto dvd and if u can wil u b able to turn on and ofF?

[yugene]

I found winavi to be the best tool for converting RMVB to DVD files.
You can also use Tmpgenc DVD Author to create menus

[bedfast_rock]

A helpfull guide thanks

[tvbfreak]

nice guide! love u

[ipepsi]

i got a question which format do i have to convert it to, so that i am able to watch it on tv. alsto which format comsums less space..??

[Falcon]

I got winavi 7.6 and I tried to convert to DVD, but then it says it can't read the rmvb file and its not because the file is in chinese or something. So my question is, do I need to download something from winavi inorder to conver rmvb to dvd?

[ipepsi]

maybe its ur movie title is in chinese

[Falcon]

its not, i changed the title and it still doesnt work

[ipepsi]

rmb is supported by the program.
convert all to dvd select vcd...

[tamagodaisuki]

is xvid better or divx?

[minhlu]

is xvid better or divx?

DIVX is better, cuz it's file codec from DVD, that's y it's will give u the quality good as DVD's quality

[dragopyre]

damn converting takes up so much time. Wish there was a dvd player that plays rmvb files.

[The_Jelly]

The proper term is encoding, anyways if you have an intel it should be slightly faster.

[saikira]

it's a very nice guide there so thorough, danxs

[szetor]

does that work if i just stick a dvd in my drive and convert it to avi?

[bee]

how many episodes can you burn onto one dvd and how do you do that? or do you only burn one episode per dvd?

[newbybob]

Thanx for the tip on subtitles on dvds. I tried a trial version winavi. It seems to be very simple to use. However I been using virtuedubmob converting rmvb to avi then nero vision to dvd. Lots of steps.

[stevewan]

Can anyone teach me how to burn files to rmvb?

[stevewan]

what software to use in order to burn to rmvb???

[jwslam]

is there a program that'll let me burn like 20 hours onto a one-sided dvd??

[kst]

Thanks

[szetor]

ok well... you can burn a dvd to a .iso image. which is like 4gb.

how do people make dvd rip.. and then have a file that is only 700mb..
do they convert iso to avi some how?

.iso is sort of bad becaue the file is so big and u need to mount the image onto a virtual drive to play it.

avi is nice since its smaller file and can play easier

[Ecko]

there's plenty of software for you to rip DVD's.. iso is just the image.. it's the actual files in it.

[THF20]

Nice intro with a guide thought... Thanks for sharing.

This will be useful someday. :D

[newbybob]

I can't get vobsub to install properly. It wouldn't close (button grayed out after it said installation completed). Then when adding sub, same happens to the close button (grayed out) and wouldn't add the sub. Any ideas?

[juni0r]

Winavi is definitely a great tool to use. I use it to convert my rmvb files to avi.

[sschsu]

how many episodes can you burn onto one dvd and how do you do that? or do you only burn one episode per dvd?

It depend on the size of the episodes. I don't put more than 4 episodes to 1 DVD because of the output quality. Use Nero "Make your own DVD-Video" option. 4GB for DVD format and 7.8GB for DVD-9 format.

[trinity11]

Has anyone used 'EO Video' to convert rmvb files?

I try to add this file type into the playlist and nothing happens(it doesnt get added) and no error message occurs. Anyone else had this problem? Any help would be appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance

[dann]

urghhh i am sick and tired of this... i have an avi, and GRAPHIC idx and sub. not text.

so because of this, i cant use the guide cuz its not text.. and some how, i ended up with a mastroka, which is good, BUT CANT BE BURNT ONTO A DVD T_T

im trying to avoid having to type 3 hours of script on subresync..

and some how, i need to end up with one video file with subs, so i can make some menus in nero....

but stupid idx and sub are images, not text..... urghhhh

[The_Jelly]

If I'm right, some encoding programs let you control the size of the output file, which is probably why dvd rips are generally 700 mb, I have seen 1.4 gb ones too though.

[gduong128]

I have been using DVDsanta for almost a year to burn rmvb files to DVD and it is working really good for me. With DVDsanta you can choose how many episodes/files you want to put into one DVD and it does the conversion for you to fit the format of DVD you want 4.7GB for single layer DVD or 8.5GB for dual layer DVD.

For one TV serie episode that last 45 minutes, it takes approx 50 minutes to convert. This all depends on your hardware (CPU,HD,RAM). I still have an old P4 2GHz with 1GB of RAM.

[jono281]

does any one kno hw to burn movies that have 2 lanuages so tht when they are on the DVD they only have the one lanuage tht u want

[pikacu]

nice information.

[robsh]

I have been using DVDsanta for almost a year to burn rmvb files to DVD and it is working really good for me. With DVDsanta you can choose how many episodes/files you want to put into one DVD and it does the conversion for you to fit the format of DVD you want 4.7GB for single layer DVD or 8.5GB for dual layer DVD.

For one TV serie episode that last 45 minutes, it takes approx 50 minutes to convert. This all depends on your hardware (CPU,HD,RAM). I still have an old P4 2GHz with 1GB of RAM.

the DVDsanta seems to be quite good
just bn to the website
but do they comvert like anime or movies that need codec to play them?

[thobuon]

thanks for the guide. would this work for mac?

[lazyturbo]

How do u burn .sub/.idx subtitles?

[laziboi]

can someone post a guide on how to convert VCD/DVD to DIVX and XVID please. just so i can upload some movies that i collected over the years.

[Logy]

I'd recommend looking at videohelp.com. they got tons of guides/faqs

[BabyRain]

Hi... I would like to burn VCDS...
is WINAVI the best shareware program to convert AVI files to MPEG?
Been trying to find a good free program but most of the time it's just a free trial version that lets me convert PART of the AVI file to MPEG. Thanks.

[Logy]

Your better off doing what everyone and his dog does, take the illegal route

[k2fong]

Thanks! very comprehensive

[edli888]

This site gives a pretty good writeup on how to convert rmvb to avi. The free software stated work pretty well.

http://jakeludington.com/dv_hacks/20051210_how_to_convert_rmvb.html

Once in avi forms, then use nero digital express to burn to dvd

[gt05]

oh ic can see now !

[hellohuiyang]

wow thanks very kool & helpful

[kapo123]

ihave to register dnt i// which means costing.. and being honest... like.. i only waanna burn one movie!...

[sschsu]

Hi... I would like to burn VCDS...
is WINAVI the best shareware program to convert AVI files to MPEG?
Been trying to find a good free program but most of the time it's just a free trial version that lets me convert PART of the AVI file to MPEG. Thanks.

I have been using this to convert rmvb to dvd for the past year. You could find the product key in this section.

[xxsweetheartxx]

wow, this is useful, thank you!

[misenlai]

nice guide... was always wondering how to burn subtitle... u r my hero

[laziboi]

how do i remove the dual language when converting a vcd(dat) file to .avi?

[whacky]

sweet

[khosy]

This site gives a pretty good writeup on how to convert rmvb to avi. The free software stated work pretty well.

http://jakeludington.com/dv_hacks/20051210_how_to_convert_rmvb.html

Once in avi forms, then use nero digital express to burn to dvd

Wow thank you very much, i was searching for this information.

[investor]

thanks a lot edli888

[sean222]

if you want to do iso, mdf, mds files....just use dvd decryptor....i find alcohol 120 useless, you dont need to mount or anything.....nero doesnt work too well burning iso either

[pc1052]

very nice guide dude, thankyou so muCH!!!!

[jjgarrick]

may sure the folder is in english

[michelle7879]

any one can help.. i had download the series fr here, and i see u all guide me to use
AVI Win Converters... but i search fr net and download the softwares and after i convert the
series, got a water mark in the middle while i watch the series, any once can guide, any
others softwares tat are free and is easy to use for me to convert my series... thanks..

http://mic7879fans.multiply.com

[poonsailueng]

hi i just started using winavi. to convert the rmvb file. the movie is converted but the sound does not follow the converted file. am i doing something wrong?

[Omgigotaids]

thanks for the infos

[honeybuns82]

hi i just started using winavi. to convert the rmvb file. the movie is converted but the sound does not follow the converted file. am i doing something wrong?


Yea, I get the same problem when I burn it to DVD. I convert the rmvb file to avi and then burn it to a disk. There's a delay in sound. Anyone know how to fix this?

[saikira]

i need help in burnin also
i collected a bunch of PVs and MVs and wanted to burn it into a DVD, that is playable in any regular dvd player
like sony, toshiba instead of the computer's dvd player??

i got concerts and series i want to burn but dont noe how to burn it to a dvd plz help~~

[sschsu]

Yea, I get the same problem when I burn it to DVD. I convert the rmvb file to avi and then burn it to a disk. There's a delay in sound. Anyone know how to fix this?

Why converted to AVI? Is it not better to convert to DVD then burn on DVD and watch on TV? Ihave converted many serials from rmvb to DVD without any problem.

[xemui]

Yea, I get the same problem when I burn it to DVD. I convert the rmvb file to avi and then burn it to a disk. There's a delay in sound. Anyone know how to fix this?

I got the same problem when I used Win AVI, it's not for all dramas, but it seems it does that to most Chinese RMVB's. I don't know why either. It doesn't matter if I convert it to AVI, DVD, or WMV, there's still a sound delay. If you don't need to work with subtitles, I have found Any Video Converter to be very helpful and easy to use and you don't get the sound delay anymore. Just convert it to Mpeg (NTSC or PAL) and it plays on most DVD players.

Hope this helps! :)

[rickxtac]

I have noticed that when I download series from the download section I am unable to use eovideo, winavi, virtualdubmod to convert the files from rmvb to avi.

I tried changing the file name to english as well but still no go...until I realized that the series rmvb files were contained in a folder with chinese characters in it as well. I changed that to english as well and bam we're in business.

If you're having issues previously, this might be the solution.

[Giniro]

Try use Ultra Converter it works perfectly and the time use to converting is even shorter than winavi 8.0

[DimSum]

nice ... big thanks :D

[savagez]

I got the same problem when I used Win AVI, it's not for all dramas, but it seems it does that to most Chinese RMVB's. I don't know why either. It doesn't matter if I convert it to AVI, DVD, or WMV, there's still a sound delay. If you don't need to work with subtitles, I have found Any Video Converter to be very helpful and easy to use and you don't get the sound delay anymore. Just convert it to Mpeg (NTSC or PAL) and it plays on most DVD players.

Hope this helps! :)

Turning off all unnecessary program like MSN, or anything that pops up. 2ndly, do not press the pause button, just let it run by itself and do not do other things. I am using WinAVI and so far so good... only delay if i forgot to turn off my MSN.

-rolleyes

[unleash drag0n]

i burn rmvb to a CD using cd burner.

[s!lver]

thanks peeps. I'm gonna be making my first attempt to burn it from rm to dvd. hopefully everything goes out well. *crossfingers*

[s!lver]

so i used winavi. had no problems converting the image to dvd. but when i play it on dvd, there is absolutely no sound at all. can someone help as to what I am doing wrong. I'm gonna try creating another one with a different rm video and hopefully that'll work.

[s!lver]

other rm file didnt work as well. just curious, am i suppose to convert to "ac3 2ch." I am currently attempting to try to convert it to avi right now and burning to cd/dvd and seeing how that goes.

[HeavySmoker]

Really depends on the raw audio. With WinAVI it really doesn't do anything to elaborate with the file itself, it assumes.
If ppl find problems with the audio out put it self:
Rip the vid by itself & then audio by itself.
Lets face it, alot of different compressions different ppl make.
Personally i think WinAVI is a bunch of crap, no offence to ppl that love the program. Its a basic program to begin with.

[s!lver]

Really depends on the raw audio. With WinAVI it really doesn't do anything to elaborate with the file itself, it assumes.
If ppl find problems with the audio out put it self:
Rip the vid by itself & then audio by itself.
Lets face it, alot of different compressions different ppl make.
Personally i think WinAVI is a bunch of crap, no offence to ppl that love the program. Its a basic program to begin with.

do you recommend something better than WinAvi. and possibly free.

[investor]

Now using VSO. Much better than Winavi. Can burn 10 ep in one dvd

[s!lver]

^ when you say 10epi/dvd. are these hdzone-neo formats.

just got done downloading the software and currently converting, hopefully i'll have more luck using vso than winavi.

[s!lver]

just got done burning a dvd and audio and video works great. FINALLY..

everyone should move to this program.

[bbes]

just got done burning a dvd and audio and video works great. FINALLY..

everyone should move to this program.

how quick is the conversion process and what is the quality of the conversion process?

[s!lver]

I say it takes no more than 2hrs to convert and burn 5 hdzone-neo version chapters to dvd. The quality is pretty damn good, almost like watching it through my computer. (but i have a pretty good computer moniter, so others may be different.)

I think the menu can be a little better updated and such, but as long as it works, I'm a happy camper.

[bbes]

I say it takes no more than 2hrs to convert and burn 5 hdzone-neo version chapters to dvd. The quality is pretty damn good, almost like watching it through my computer. (but i have a pretty good computer moniter, so others may be different.)

I think the menu can be a little better updated and such, but as long as it works, I'm a happy camper.

how long are the hdzone-neo chapters?

[s!lver]

they are about 44minutes per chapter, VSO tells you in the info area. so i figure it about 250minutes per disk to burn to dvd.

[thylakoid_77]

thanks for the info

[idunn0]

thanks for the guide

[twetiopeia]

wow nice work on this guide. thanks a lot

[c_mon14]

i use Imtoo burner but i dunno how to add the title to d menu
does anyone knoes??

[jjgarrick]

Thanks for the info...will try to use VSO next time to burn DVD

[koogepanini]

k so i have all these rmvb files that i have changed into vob, ifo and bup files using winavi...and i want to burn 4-5 episodes (hopefully with separate chapters when i watch it on my dvd player) onto one dvd...but they all have the same ending ie: VTS_01_0...etc. so it gets messy when i try burning them onto the dvd. and nero keeps showing some message about not being able to reallocate some files...

im out of ideas...any help? what other programs/software do i need? i've tried rewriting the ifo files using ifoedit and it's still not working...im new at burning episodes onto dvds so this is all very confusing...not even sure if this is the place to post this...

[mentroc]

great guide... very useful

[chocomilk]

U can use win avi video or you can convert to avi use allok rmvb to avi and use convert x dvd

[davemak]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[shutterbug]

Great info in this thread. Thanks!

[buee09]

Good guide...I'll have to try it out.

[pblack2007]

Thanks for the great information.

[ambrosa]

thank you :)

[camospartan]

Nice Guide

[iloveasia]

Other than Winavi, which program do you guys/girls recommend when converting rmvbs to vobs?

Winavi is frustrating to use at times.

[gawain187]

RM!! i dont know what they are, but ive dealt with them before and ended up just trashing them cuz i didnt know how to play them

With RM files, rename them with RMVB so add the VB at the end and it should play

[honeybuns82]

What are the settings you guys use in Winavi to convert?? I convert the files to .avi and burn to disc so I can watch using my divx DVD player. Most times when I burn to disc though, the audio ends up being out of sync. The playback is fine when on the computer....its just after putting on disc that I have problems. Please help me out if you could. Thanks.

[p4nd4]

Use ConvertXtoDvd in order to author a dvd which is playable in most dvd player.
This is where you can get the software
h**p://genexsys.com/dvd/vso-convertxtodvd-31340_cracks_keygens_serials_patches.html

and here is the how to archive
h**p://www.ehow.com/how_2145490_use-convertxtodvd.html

just google for the instruction on how to use this software.
FYI it's very simple thus it's very easy to use.
you might want to use nero to burn the authored dvd to DVD-R

[honeybuns82]

Use ConvertXtoDvd in order to author a dvd which is playable in most dvd player.
This is where you can get the software
h**p://genexsys.com/dvd/vso-convertxtodvd-31340_cracks_keygens_serials_patches.html

and here is the how to archive
h**p://www.ehow.com/how_2145490_use-convertxtodvd.html

just google for the instruction on how to use this software.
FYI it's very simple thus it's very easy to use.
you might want to use nero to burn the authored dvd to DVD-R

I'm not trying to convert to DVD, just AVI. I'll stick with winavi but I just want to know the settings.

[pyip]

convertxtodvd is a great program - it allow you to title you menu in chinese character. Depending on how many chapter you are converting and you cpu speed - I am able to convert 5 chapter in 1 hr.

The one thing that this program do not offer is to cnvert a dual language rmvb file - anyone that have a program that will do this.

[honeybuns82]

convertxtodvd is a great program - it allow you to title you menu in chinese character. Depending on how many chapter you are converting and you cpu speed - I am able to convert 5 chapter in 1 hr.

The one thing that this program do not offer is to cnvert a dual language rmvb file - anyone that have a program that will do this.


Is it possible someone answer my question without referring me to other software or telling me how great these other programs are? I just want a simple answer to what are the settings of winavi you guys use.

[psyduck215]

Help needed here, I converted a tvb series that has both mando/canto language into dvd files and then burnt it on a dvd but the problem I'm having is that it only plays mando on my standard dvd player. How to I fix this problem?

[chihungyip]

It's a real helpful guide. Thanks. -bigclap-bigclap

[ghostsxy]

thanks

[noasian]

yea does anybody know what softwares to convert RMVB files that I can play on my DVD player. I am having major problems here with RMVB, I want to watch it on my DVD player...thanks.

WinAVI is the way to go...

I got winavi 7.6 and I tried to convert to DVD, but then it says it can't read the rmvb file and its not because the file is in chinese or something. So my question is, do I need to download something from winavi inorder to conver rmvb to dvd?

use version 8, it supports dvd menu as well...

damn converting takes up so much time. Wish there was a dvd player that plays rmvb files.

yes not here in america thou, in asia, there is, all you need is to buy the player, put in a 2.5" (notebook size) hd and have it connected to TV and you can select the files to play, neat eh?

is there a program that'll let me burn like 20 hours onto a one-sided dvd??

not if you get single sided blu ray writer, then you can fit 25 hours =0

I have been using DVDsanta for almost a year to burn rmvb files to DVD and it is working really good for me. With DVDsanta you can choose how many episodes/files you want to put into one DVD and it does the conversion for you to fit the format of DVD you want 4.7GB for single layer DVD or 8.5GB for dual layer DVD.

For one TV serie episode that last 45 minutes, it takes approx 50 minutes to convert. This all depends on your hardware (CPU,HD,RAM). I still have an old P4 2GHz with 1GB of RAM.

i have q6600 with 4gb ram and 3.5TB hd space...i use WinAVI and it takes approx. 28 mins - 40 mins (depending on your output quality) for 5x 42 min RMVBs ... for those who had a slightly larger DVD-5 output size, don't waste time in redo it again, use DVD Shrink to compress it a little...i have 1 hd for windows, 1 hd for downloads, 2 hd for converted stuff to start...i will never download and read stuff from the same hd

Yea, I get the same problem when I burn it to DVD. I convert the rmvb file to avi and then burn it to a disk. There's a delay in sound. Anyone know how to fix this?

there can be different factors for this...(1) your computer isn't fast enough due to doing too many things at once (like listening to music, watching a video, high speed downloads)...(2) your source files is corrupt, try to see if the source are like that as well...(3) most important!!! are you downloading, reading and converting to the SAME hard drive, that will decrease the read/write performance...

I have noticed that when I download series from the download section I am unable to use eovideo, winavi, virtualdubmod to convert the files from rmvb to avi.

I tried changing the file name to english as well but still no go...until I realized that the series rmvb files were contained in a folder with chinese characters in it as well. I changed that to english as well and bam we're in business.

If you're having issues previously, this might be the solution.

WinAVI requires something called the RMdll, it is a zipped file with all the RM decoders...after this is extracted to the 'Filter' folder, it works like a charm... (this seems to be an issue with older versions of WinAVI)

I say it takes no more than 2hrs to convert and burn 5 hdzone-neo version chapters to dvd. The quality is pretty damn good, almost like watching it through my computer. (but i have a pretty good computer moniter, so others may be different.)

I think the menu can be a little better updated and such, but as long as it works, I'm a happy camper.

isn't 2 hours too long? LOL
my times for 6cn 5x 42 min DVD-RMVBs are approx Lowest Quality (30 mins), Lower Quality (45 mins), Medium Quality (55 mins), Higher Quality (70 mins), Highest Quality (< 90 mins)

Other than Winavi, which program do you guys/girls recommend when converting rmvbs to vobs?

Winavi is frustrating to use at times.

i have been using this since version 6.7 and never had an issue with it,...

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Is there a way I can get 8 TVB episodes on one 5.6 GB DVD and with chapters; Can some one help me with that? Thxs