Mutiple (30+) AVI's to DVD; DVD plays only the first 15

[sudiptoghosh]

I am looking for a solution to the following issue:-

I am trying to create a home DVD by joining together a string of .avi files produced by my digital camcorder. I used a s/w called DVD Creator (v6) from Xilisoft to add about 35+ small video clips together & burned a couple of DVD's (DVD -R). The problem I see is that when I play the DVD in my DVD player (or in windows media player on my PC) the player does not advance from title 1 to the next automatically. I have to keep pressing the chapter forward button on the remote for the player to go on to the next title. Even then it advances only up to chapter 14 out of 37. The funny thing is when I burned a test DVD with only 4 chapters this worked perfectly i.e. the disk played from start to finish without intervention.

So what should I do or what s/w should I use so that the different titles are joined together in the DVD seamlessly ? Also is the screw up because I am joining together too many titles ?

I was thinking that I would create an ISO image or a DVD folder structure using my Xilisoft DVD Creator software & then burn the DVD using ImgBurn. Will that help ? Or is there a better software to author DVD's ? I have already paid for Xilisoft's DVD Creator. Any good free ones ?

Please help out with your suggestions. Thanks.

[guns1inger]

AVStoDVD, DVD Flick are both good and free. ConvertXtoDVD is also good, but not free.

Or you could learn how to edit and author manually, and not trust a one-click tool to do everything for you.

Aside from the fact I think very little of xilisoft products, how you advance depends entirely on how the disc is authored. if the clips are pulled together into a single title, with the start of each clip being a chapter point, then you can jump from clip to clip. However traditionally, each clip equates to a title, not a chapter, so you can't just jump form one to the next using the next chapter button without some fancy authoring tricks happening in the background.

For what you want to do, I know DVD Flick will work.

[sudiptoghosh]

Thanks guns1inger; I will try out DVDFlick.

I am particularly impressed by the following feature -> "If for example your disc is a series of continous holiday videos, then you might want to select "Play the next title" after each video ends.". This is exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully this would work as advertised. Also the other feature I wanted was this :-
Each "Title" can have multiple video files. Lets see how things pan out.

For burning the actual DVD, would you advise that I write to an ISO file & then burn using ImgBurn or should I use DVDFlick itself to burn the DVD. My requirements for burning are very straightforward. No menus (burnt my finger once). Just a reliable disk to be created.