Mr_Odwin Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 FAVC is a GUI that enables you to easily make DVDs from video files. It takes one, or more, video files and produces a dvd folder ready to be burned to a dvd disc that should play in any regular dvd player. FAVC uses several pieces of free software to accomplish its task. Screenshot Features: Input video files and obtain a DVD folder ready to be burned to a DVD disc. Automatic file recognition and analysis. Automatically assigns correct bitrate based on disc size chosen. Easy chapter creation. AC3 Retention. Uses Muxman (Via BatchMux) for DVD Authoring. Automated Menu Generation for up to 8 Titles. Requirements: Must have Avisynth v2.56a or later installed. Must have .NET framework Version 2 installed. Instructions: Open FAVC. Choose your video files, configure the options and then click the generate button. Whilst processing, tasks will run on the task bar and can be watched. The main task is video encoding, which is done by QuEnc 0.72 or HC 0.21.0.0. When everything is done you will have a dvd folder in the required directory. Files: http://download.videohelp.com/favc/FAVC_104.exe (32 bit) (self-extracting) http://download.videohelp.com/favc/FAVC_104.zip (32 bit) (zip file) http://download.videohelp.com/favc/FAVC_104_x64.exe (64 bit) (self-extracting) http://download.videohelp.com/favc/FAVC_104_x64.zip (64 bit) (zip file) Source: http://download.videohelp.com/favc/FAVC_Source_104.zip Source Code (Really Messy!!!) Homepage: http://favcfavc.googlepages.com/home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 I like it. Its quite simple to use, although I do find it a bit tricky the way it opens so many programs. I wasn't sure if it was finished or not. One thing I didn;t like was that there wasn;t an obvious way to ensure that the selection of video files will be 1 dvd's worth. I usually use ImToo dvd creator to do this, which clearly has less functionality as there are far far fewer setting, but it is easy to make a compilation of video files and you know it'll fit. I was using the standard one btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 You have no idea, how much I looked for something like this. I will gladly test it on Vista. Edit: Apparently it didn't work, I might have done something wrong, the VIDEO_TS folder is empty I'll try again tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raining_again Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 You have no idea, how much I looked for something like this. I will gladly test it on Vista. goes for me too I'll download it now and give it a try later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 I have tried it a second time now. The first was just with a single video file. This time I put 8 episodes of series on there. I really really liked the way that it automatically formats the files to optimise them so they fit on the disk. What I mean is, I like how it let me put 8 hours worth of video on their and automatically changed the bitrates so they fitted. ImToo dvd creator simply gives you a set option, and would never have let me put this much onto 1 disk. It's only failiure here was the lack of a menu, but it appears as though one is forthcoming. Good work mr odwin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 Thanks for the testing guys. Shino, can you tell me if you had success or more failure later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
system_error Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 That software is quite good in my eyes - especially because you have done it on your own. Now once you consider this version "done" don't you want to start a easy to use DVD to AVI tool ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted May 1, 2007 Author Share Posted May 1, 2007 An easy dvd to avi tool is AutoGK or AutoMKV. Both are free and work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Thanks for the testing guys.Shino, can you tell me if you had success or more failure later? Success! I really have no idea why it didn't work before, but it worked now! It's a really nice job you did, I think its "just" an interface you did for all those other apps it comes with right? Anyway, I like this nice little app, and I shall use it a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 Success! I really have no idea why it didn't work before, but it worked now! It's a really nice job you did, I think its "just" an interface you did for all those other apps it comes with right? Anyway, I like this nice little app, and I shall use it a lot. Yeah, in essence it just writes a load of command lines, after it's had a quick look at the files. Did you use Vista 32 bit or Vista 64 bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Yeah, in essence it just writes a load of command lines, after it's had a quick look at the files.Did you use Vista 32 bit or Vista 64 bit? Vista 64 bit, I guess as long as it uses .Net framework you probably won't have any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 Thought I'd give this topic a bit of a bump. FAVC can now automatically create menus for up to 8 videos and should be Vista Friendly. Yes, it's an awesome free app. Any bug reports or reports of success are welcomed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 excellent, I'll download the new one, as menus was the key 'failing' of the last one. I have some requests for sme Heroes DVD's, so I'll sort that and give some feedback this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Can't seem to get it working. I've installed the latest version of Avisynth and its throwing up an error which says that AVIsynth probably isn't installed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 Codec related? What's the file (video/audio codec, avi/mp4/mov?) that you're trying to convert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Yeah, it said something about codecs too. Trying to convert an AVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 Install ffdshow and see how that affects things. http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ (It's basically a great set of decoders.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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