What's the difference between _TS and .ts files?

[Yellow Peril]

I use NTL DVD & CD Maker 7 that came installed on my machine and have succesfully recorded and ripped DVDs and CDs with no problem.

A friend transferred a couple of amateur videos from analogue to digital for me, which are stored on my hard disc as avi files, but the DVD Maker can't see them. It asks for _TS files.

So I downloaded a free avi to ts file converter, but the burner still won't see the converted ts files.

Please - what do I do now?

[Baldrick]

It probably wants a VIDEO_TS folder with ifo/bup/vob files. So convert to a DVD-Video instead, with for example avstodvd, dvd flick, etc

But AVI to DVD conversion is not any DVD ripping. Moving you.

[Yellow Peril]

I'm not at all tecnically minded, so your reply, no doubt spot on means absolutely nothing to me. Could you explain in a way that could be understood by a complete idiot?

Thanks

[Baldrick]

Convert the AVI to DVD-Video and burn it.
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/all-in-one-dvd-converters
http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/229/59/

NTL DVD maker doesn't do that.