Burning recalcitrant AVI to VCD

[Banite]

Hi

I know little about video conversion but would like to burn a messy avi file to vcd to play in a home dvd player. Does anyone know of a freeware utility that I can use to burn a difficult avi to VCD or MPG

I can burn avi to vcd with nero express but the audio is hopelessly out of synch.

I have tried to play the avi on several avi viewers, including WMP9 (I have win98se), but they play the audio only. Gspot indicates that the required codec is DiVx5, which I have installed using ffdshow, but it does not seem to help.

I can play the avi using webtech BSplayer provided that I run Cucusoft avi-vcd converter shareware first. The cucsoft program would probably do what I need but being shareware it is restricted to 3 minutes.

Gspot indicates that the file is about 1Mb less than it should be.

Can anyone help with another solution

Thanks

[Forum Troll]

What do you mean by 'messy'? I take it taht the file is not playing correctly. Maybe Divfix can repair it.

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divfix.html

[Banite]

By messy I was referring to WMP and several other viewers inability to play the avi, as well as Bgold burning software that accompanied the CD player. I thought that avi was a well recognised format so assume that something is amiss with the file.

Moderator - being new to this forum, what rule did the forum troll break that caused him to be banned?

[Forum Troll]

It's just my sig.

[Lord Rakim]

Try some of the conversion guides on the site... and there are free MPEG encoders like QuEnc and FreeEnc.... do a search