Opinion: MP4 or AVI?

[chopdog1777]

Hey folks, my first post here and it is more of an opinion question than anything. I have some movies that I have downloaded as MP4s. I was also given the choice to get the file as an AVI (Google's video site). Which one would you choose? I'm basically downloading the files and then creating DVDs from them and get the infamous "audio sync" problem on a few. Does anyone know if this is more specific to the MP4s or the AVIs? I'd like to have a better shot at getting them output correctly the first time instead of converting to this, then to that, and then finally onto the DVD. I just don't like re-encoding and losing quality and time. Any thoughts or comments? Much appreciated.

[Baldrick]

More video converters supports avi directly.

But if you use a good all-in-one dvd converter like convertxtodvd, dvd flick, favc it should work pretty good with many mp4 files.

[chopdog1777]

Right now i have been using SUPER as my main one with no major problems, except for the occaisional audio sync issue. I have DVD Flick for home and a portable version a well. Haven't tried the other ones yet. Was just trying to see what is usually a standard I guess. Like when given the choice in the future, I'll pick this over that, just because it is more supported and I could easily convert it to other formats.

I'll give those others mentioned a try.
Thanks

[jman98]

Take AVI if given a choice. Some of the video and audio codecs typically used with MP4 files may be harder to convert to DVD.

Audio sync issues sometimes happen with VBR audio MP3 being used, but that is actually more typical of AVI than MP4.

[chopdog1777]

Thank you so much everyone. This is helping me out quite a bit. I've only just begun on this endeavor and want to make sure I get off on the right foot.

[jagabo]

There are DVD players that can play Divx/Xvid AVI files.