AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and burn them into a highly compatible multiple tracks DVD with customizable menus.
Features:
╖ Video encoding using HCEnc/FFmpeg.
╖ Audio encoding using Wavi/Aften/FFmpeg. Multiple Audio tracks are supported.
╖ Subtitles encoding using SubtitlesCreator/VobSub. Multiple subtitles tracks are supported.
╖ DVD Authoring using MuxMan/BatchMux.
╖ ISO Image Building and DVD Burning using ImgBurn (not included in the installer package).
╖ Internal DVD Menu Editor with customizable static and motion menus.
╖ Video and Audio editing using AviSynth filters.
╖ Batch encoding is supported.
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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╖ 1 GHz CPU or higher (better if multi-core)
╖ 10GB Hard Disk or more
╖ 1GB RAM or more
╖ DVD Burning Drive (not mandatory)
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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╖ Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 32bit (runs with Windows 95/98/Me but 100% functionality is not guaranteed)
╖ Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher
╖ AviSynth 2.5.7 or higher (AviSynth 2.5.8 is included in the Installer)
╖ A good media splitter (LAV Filters 0.63 is included in the Installer)
╖ A good DirectShow codecs/filters suite (LAV Filters 0.63 is included in the Installer, ffdshow 32bit is a valid alternative)
╖ ImgBurn 2.5.0.0 or higher (not mandatory, but required to build DVD ISO Images and to burn DVDs - http://www.imgburn.com/)
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
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Very special thanks to these very special people:
Tips and debug at the beginning and throughout the project
╖ Briareos
╖ Entreri
╖ JacoL
╖ Bubuz
╖ Manolito
Coding
╖ Manolito for development of following add-on tools:
- ff_vbr.bat (ffmpeg VBR modes)
- Wavi_mod.bat (Alternative Audio Normalizing)
Graphics
╖ JacoJ (original Splash Screen and DVD Menu Templates)
╖ OAKSide (main Icons)
╖ 8ternity (new Splash Screens and Skins)
╖ JohnJ (new Splash Screens and Skins)
GUI languages
╖ Manolito for German translation
General support
╖ All guys from Doom9 Forums (International and Italian) and from VideoHelp Forum who helped AVStoDVD development
╖ MrsC (for her infinite patience)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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I would like to thank all the following great guys. They are true programmers!
╖ Justin Ruggles and Prakash Punnoor for Aften
╖ the AviSynth Team for AviSynth
╖ Groucho2004 for AVSMeter
╖ Sir Didymus for BatchMux
╖ Donald A. Graft for DGPulldown and DGIndex
╖ FFmpeg Team (http://ffmpeg.org) for FFmpeg
╖ Hank315 for HCenc
╖ MONOGRAM Multimedia for GraphStudio
╖ LIGHTNING UK! for ImgBurn
╖ Nevcairiel for LAV Filters
╖ Zenitram for MediaInfo
╖ Moritz Bunkus for MKVtoolnix
╖ MPUCoder for MuxMan
╖ Jsoto for PgcDemux
╖ Erik Vullings for SubtitleCreator
╖ Gabest for VobSub
╖ Tamas Kurucsai for Wavi
╖ IanB, mikeytown2, Gavino, Myrsloik, Stickboy, Donald A. Graft, Tritical, Wilbert, tebasuna51, foxyshadis, mg262 (Doom9 forum guys) for AviSynth plugins and functions
KNOWN OPEN ISSUES
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╖ FFmpeg fails to mux WAV audio: output MPG file has the audio track messed up
╖ PAL speedup and NTSC slowdown cannot be perfomed with FFmpeg backup audio routine: FFmpeg does not allow to change audio speed
CONTACT
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To get more information about AVStoDVD, visit AVStoDVD HomePage (http://sites.google.com/site/avstodvdmain/) or SouceForge WebPage (http://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd).
Please send any comments and suggestions to: avstodvd@gmail.com
AVStoDVD is always in development, and despite my testing, bugs are probably plenty in numbers. If you encounter any, please send me an email describing how to reproduce the bug (if you can) and the exact error message AVStoDVD reported, if any. Sending attachments of log files produced by AVStoDVD is also very helpful.
