nero to burn avi to dvd-r so i can watch in stand alone dvd?

[vampirexxi]

i'm quite familiar with nero, and i'm not that new at ripping dvds. A while ago I took some of my robotech dvds and ripped each episode to avi format, so i could put 6-7 episodes on each cdr.

now i want to put the entire 24 episodes on 1 dvd-r, (possibley have 12 episodes on 2 disks each) but in a format i can watch on my dvd player (in other words, mpg)

i figure i could do this:
use tmpgenc to convert to dvd format. do this for all 24 episodes.
then use something like dvdmaestro or ulead dvd movie factory 2 to make one long a$$ file w/ bookmarks.
then take the vobs it makes and use dvd2one to compress it to one disk.

i just wanted to try something really quick to see if it was gonna work, so i opened nero to make a dvd video and added all 24 avi files, thinking as i dragged them across, it would convert them (like it does when you do a video cd and it converts it to a .dat file), but it didn't.

it just showed that about 3 gigs of avi files were there on the dvd. i take it if i burn it this way, even if there are avi files in the video_ts folder, it is exactly that, that nero didn't convert them for me when i burn?

are both my ideas correct?

[funkguy4]

Yeah, you're correct on both accounts.....

[Dennis1968]

youe best solution it to convert the AVIs to MPG, then Audthor then to DVD-Video, Nero can not create a DVD on the fly.

[ZippyP.]

Don't use nero to convert, the quality sucks!

[vampirexxi]

thanks for confirming my ideas before i wasted time and a dvd.

[funkguy4]

it's k cuz now u know (u shoulda sen how many CDs it took me to learn the (X)SVCD ordeal.....took like 3....