I wrote a brief guide a while back on how to convert most video files to DVD using freeware, which uses entirely different software than your tutorial. While the software & methods used in my guide are much simpler/easier, the results are probably less satisfactory than the ones from your tutorial. The programs I used don't give you any direct control over quality settings, and I don't think they can deal with softsubs, but they'll work well for anyone who wants a quick fix.
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You can make DVDs with freeware by using 2 progs:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...xtodvd_free.cfm
http://www.download.com/Ashampoo-Burning-S...4-10776287.html
Divxtodvd will convert most video types to DVD format, including all the bup and ifo files. Ashampoo allows you to burn a pre-prepared video-ts folder to a DVD. There are some limitations to this technique; While divxtodvd does allow you to put multiple videos onto a single DVD, it doesn't allow you to create menus. Divxtodvd doesn't give you control over quality/compression either. Still, for a completely (and legally) free method, it's not bad. Conversion time is a little faster than realtime with my 2.2ghz/512M ram machine (a 22min vid took about 15mins to convert). Burning with ashampoo is also pretty fast.
The only issue is that when I made a test disc & played it in my DVD player, the picture broke up sometimes & the sound was out of sync on one dvd player, but it was fine on another one & on my comp.
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