Hi havent done much dvd burning in awhile and had quick question

[pitten247]

so i have an AVI movie, what format do i want to have it to put on a blank dvd to work in my dvd player? thanks

[tmac2085]

convertxtodvd will do wonders...its what i use

[poisondeathray]

If your DVD player is capable of playing DIVX/XVID (and this is format the AVI movie), then you could save it as a data file and fit many more movies on 1 DVD

If not, then a free alternative to convertxtodvd would be FAVC

[bendixG15]

The format needed for stand alone DVD player is what is refered to as the VOB files stored in the VIDEO_TS directory.

MPG format files will play in your computer.

[oldandinthe way]

Other free choices DVDFlick and Super

[redwudz]

pitten247, what type of DVD player do you have? Many videos 'off the net' will play directly on a standalone Divx player if burned to a data disc. If not, you may have a regular standalone DVD player. For that, you would want to convert to a DVD format. If you have to do a framerate conversion, like PAL<>NTSC, then it gets a bit more complicated.

ConvertX or FAVC are good choices for that.

And welcome to our forums.