FAVC is a free collection of tools used to convert your media files, such as AVI, MP4, WMV and more to a DVD disk. FAVC is currently for Windows only. You can convert one video or multiple videos to a disk, and it includes automatic menu creation.
FAVC is a frontend for a handful of other free software. It includes:
(Encoder)
What I like about this software is that it very simple to use on first glance, but then there are a lot of configuration options available to use.
Once you hit “Generate DVD”, it first analyzes the video files you have added. It then automatically generates a batch file that it uses to generate the disk. After that, it runs the encoding.
The end result is a DVD - either the VIDEO_TS folders and if you choose, the .iso file that you can burn directly to the disk through the software, or with your own software if you should choose.
FAVC is great, free software that will help you to play those media files on your DVD player if you don’t have a device that supports MP4 (Apple TV), or AVI/DivX (XBox360, PS3, or DivX supported DVD Player).
Do you use anything similar to make DVD’s that you can recommend?
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Filed Under: Cool Software Apps ¦ How-To ¦ Windows
Tags: avi, converter, dvd, How-To, media, movies, mp4, video
Thanks for introducing the useful software. However, shouldn’t I be able to find a link for the software instead of googling it?
Usually we do. Must have slipped out some how.
http://favcfavc.googlepages.com/
Thanks, mate.
Just remember, you can’t just burn the VIDEO_TS folder as a data DVD and expect it to work in a set-top player. Most computers will handle it, but discs need to be formatted in a specific way to play on set top players. Be sure to use a burning application that is DVD aware.
Hi.. great post.. could u recommend a similar tool for linux ?? thanks..
On Linux I used to use dvdauthor and MPlayer. The article I followed was here http://www.linux.com/articles/53702
Does anyone have any easier ways of doing this now?
I’ve been using ConvertXtoDVD and I like it.
Does this support subtitles btw?
And does anyone know how it compares to ConvertXtoDVD?
FAVC is great; however, for those of you who have used ConvertXtoDVD and want something quite similar, I would definitely recommend DVD Flick:
http://www.dvdflick.net/
The only downside is that it can be VERY SLOW when creating a DVD (my laptop is fairly new, so I can confirm this; but I just let it do it’s job overnight, only to wake up up to a finished DVD). But hey, it’s free!
this seems similar to convertxtodvd which is an excellent program, but there is an alternative that has a simple interface and works just as well, its dvdflick, http://www.dvdflick.net, its an excellent program aswell.
Features
Supported video codecs
All of the following video codecs are supported by DVD Flick.
4X Video American Laser Games Apple Animation Apple Graphics
Apple MJPEG-B Apple QuickDraw Apple Video Asus v1 and v2
ATI VCR1 ATI VCR2 Autodesk Animator Studio AVID DNxHD
AVS Video Bethsoft VID C93 Video CamStudio
Cin Video Cinepak Cirrus Logic AccuPak Creative YUV
Duck TrueMotion v1, v2 DV DXA Video Flash Screen Video
FLIC video Flash Video Fraps FPS1 H.261
H.264 HuffYUV IBM Ultimotion Id Cinematic
Microsoft Video-1 Miro VideoXL MJPEG MPEG-1 and 2
MPEG-4 (DivX\XVid) Id RoQ Intel Indeo 3 Interplay Video
JPEG-LS KMVC LOCO Lossless MJPEG
Microsoft RLE MSMPEG4 v1, v2, v3 MSZH On2 VP5, VP6
Planar RGB QPEG RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 * Renderware TXD
RTjpeg Smacker Video Sony Playstation MDEC Sorenson Video 1, 3
Sunplus MJPEG TechSmith Camtasia THP Tiertex Seq Video
VC1 VMD Video VMware Video Westwood VQA
Winnov WNV1 Windows Media 7 ** Xan/WC3 ZMBV
* Not RealVideo 3 or later
** Windows Media 8 or 9 is still expirimental
Supported audio codecs
All of the following audio codecs are supported by DVD Flick.
4X IMA ADPCM AAC AC3 AMR NB and WB
Apple lossless Apple MACE 3, 6 ATRAC 3 CD-ROM XA ADPCM
Cin Creative ADPCM CRI ADX ADPCM DSP Group TrueSpeech
DTS Duck DK3,4 IMA ADPCM DV EA ADPCM
FLAC lossless G.726 ADPCM Id DPCM Intel Music Coder
Interplay DPCM Microsoft ADPCM MPEG layer 1, 2, 3 (MP3) MS IMA ADPCM
Musepack * QT IMA ADPCM RA144 RA288
RADnet Real COOK ** Shorten lossless Sierra Online DPCM
Smacker SMJPEG IMA ADPCM THP ADPCM True Audio (TTA)
Vorbis WavPack Westwood Studios IMA ADPCM Windows Media 1, 2
Xan DPCM
* Only SV7 is supported
** 5.1 version is not supported
Supported container formats
All of the following container formats are supported by DVD Flick.
4xm ADTS AAC audio American Laser Games ASF (WMV)
AVI AVS Bethsoft VID C93
CIN Creative VOC CRYO APC DV
DXA EA Multimedia FLIC format SWF *
GXF Id Cinematic Id RoQ Interplay MVE
Macromedia Flash Matroska MPEG audio MPEG-1 systems
MPEG-2 PS, TS MPEG-4 MXF Nullsoft Video (NSV)
NUT Playstation STR QuickTime Raw AC3
Raw CRI ADX audio Raw MJPEG Raw MPEG video Raw MPEG4 video
Raw PCM ** Raw Shorten audio Real Media Sega FILM/CPK
SEQ Sierra Online Sierra VMD Smacker
SUN AU format THP WAV WC3 Movie
Westwood Studios VQA/AUD
* Only embedded audio is decoded
** 8\16 bits mulaw/alaw
Supported subtitle formats
MicroDVD SubRip (SRT)
Substation Alpha (SSA\ASS) * SubView
* Only text is read, no markup or colors
FFMPEG
DVD Flick relies on the very powerful FFMPEG project to decode the many file formats and codecs it supports. FFMPEG is also used to provide audio and video encoding functionality in order to produce the final DVD.
FFMPEG’s homepage can be found at http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/.
How can i download this program?
Thanks for introducing the useful software. The only downside is that it can be VERY SLOW when creating a DVD my laptop is fairly new, so I can confirm this; but I just let it do it’s job overnight, only to wake up up to a finished DVD. But hey, it’s free!