AVI onto DVD

[grant_c]

I would like to transfer 4.2Gb AVI files from hard-drive onto DVD in order for another PC to view. Any suggestions?

[LloydAZ]

Just burn as a data DVD.

[grant_c]

with which software? Nero showtime ok?

[Baldrick]

yep, nero burning rom or nero express. nero showtime is a player.

[LloydAZ]

Nero Showtime is for watching the video, not burning.

Use Nero Burning ROM. Select Data DVD from the templates. Drag and drop your AVI file into the left hand collumn and then burn the disc. Make sure you close the disc when burning.

This will give you a data disc with the AVI file on it that can be used on another PC. Just make sure that the other PC has the correct audio and video codecs installed for the AVI file that you are using. You can open the AVI with gspot and it will tell you which codecs are needed and if they are installed or not.

If you want to make an actual video DVD that will play on a DVD player, that's a whole different ball of wax. The AVI would have to be converted to an MPG2 file, then authored with a DVD authoring program.

[grant_c]

many thanks all

[Arby]

My question is similar. I found the answers here to be useful. And I am certainly a newbie when it comes to video. The more I read, the more confused I get - right now.

My workmate picked up a Mintek portable dvd player which we leave at work. It isn't going to play everything, obviously. And we both have new PCs and are newbies at all things video, although we are trying to learn.

I have an Asus mb, Asus video card (128 mb to 256 using other memory), 1 gig DDR, Athlon 64 3200, an old (24/10/40A) Plextor cd burner and a new Pioneer 110D dvd burner, running on windows xp home.

What I'd like to do (and not be judged for) is cram as many of my avi files (Stargate and Smallville episodes mainly) onto single dvds as possible, with a reasonable tradeoff of quality sacrificed for portability and convenience. We are security guards. My workmate does 2, and sometimes more, 16 hour shifts a week. I do one such, and those nights are long and boring. (Yes, I also do normal 8 hour shifts in addition to the one sixteen hour shift. And the pay stinks.)

Another friend has given us this and that program and, while we have used some of the software he has passed to us, we don't really know fully what it can all do. I find myself wondering whether I can do some of the things I want to do with it, but don't know. And when I read around in here, I'm dismayed to find that (it seems like) I still need a zillion other programs!

I bought (online) Nero 6 Ultra. I also have virtual dub (not the latest, but one that apparently has some useful filters), ISO Buster, DVD Santa, DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter. I have something else too, but I forget what it is and haven't even installed it yet. I nabbed it after reading in here that there are better alternatives to DVD Santa and DVD Decrypter, which isn't being developed further, something that, I gather, will only become seriously problematic later on.

Am I correct in understanding that for what I want to do, I will need additional programs? I get the gist of what I need to do. I need to encode my avi files (to vcd it seems) so that they will play on any portable dvd player. (Even as vcd files, I assume I'm going to be limited as to how many I can get on a dvd, since avi files are already compressed.) I will be buying some blank large capacity (8 gig) dvds soon. I guess that's optimal for my purposes.

Later...

[Baldrick]

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