avi to DVD

[willie]

Im trying to put avi movies to dvd. What is the fastest, dumb-ass-proof, way of doing it. I have four 700 mb files (avi movies) and I would like to put them in one dvd to is it possible? Do I use ffmpegx?
I tried a forum search on avi to dvd but could not understand what people where talking about. I appreciate the help. Thanx.

[galactica]

check my website....... has one way all spelled out for ya

[plasticman]

hehe - sorry to be my usual dumb self, but i actually can't find that avi > DVD tutorial on your site.
i'd like to convert a couple avi.s so that they can go on a DVD and then play on a standard set-top box.

[pixeljammedia]

Galactica is referring to the DivX to DVD tutorial on his site. AVI is a container which can be many different video codecs. DivX is the most popular, and most of the formats used today would also work with the steps of the tutorial.

[galactica]

yea sorry... it would be too hard to put all the extensions in for the tutorial name on my home page.

Here's the one you want

[live4ever]

I just did this with a 700mb (1h45min) 3ivx encoded avi in Toast 6.0.3 yesterday. All you have to do is select the Video tab choose DVD, NTSC/PAL, and the quality you want and I'd select create disk image from the file menu (so you can preview before burning). It took about 4 hours to make a disk image. I was surprised at how well it did the conversion of the frame rate and scaled the video.

However, the resulting disk image was too big to burn to DVD-R so I ran it through DVD2oneX and burnt that.

Anyone else having problems with Toast making too large images? I mean the one it made for me was like 4.77 or so gigs (just over the capacity of a DVD-R).

Or if you don't want them to play on your set-top DVD player or if you have a DVD player capable of playing avi, you could just burn all of your videos as data on a DVD-R.

[galactica]

Anyone else having problems with Toast making too large images? I mean the one it made for me was like 4.77 or so gigs (just over the capacity of a DVD-R)..

sounds about right. Sucks huh!

[pixeljammedia]

That's why most folks here use encoders with a little more control of the bitrate. FFMpegX or MPEG2 Works will usually give you the best results when configured correctly. I tend to shy away from the Toast or iDVD method because you never really know what you'll get.