Hello.

It's been 2 weeks since I started to try to convert an .avi, over 750,000kb in size, to a useable format for authoring a DVD.

I tried to use Ulead Movie Factory 2 to make the conversion and burn to a DVD. I ended up with a DVD that played fine, but midway through it, I started to get the audio from the first half of the movie! There weren't two tracks, one on top the other, the track that should have been there was gone, replaced by the audio from the first half of the video. Luckily I used a DVDRW so I lost nothing but time.

What caused this?

Then I tried to use TMPGenc to make an mpeg-2 file from the DivX .avi.. this turned into an all night affair. IN the morning I was greeted with a 15GB mpeg-2 that I couldn't play, let alone use to make a DVD!!

If it was YOUR movie file and you wanted to convert it to a DVD or a pair of SVCD's how would you do it?

Thank heavens for this page and its forum, otherwise I would really really be lost.

Thanks in advance to all who reply!

J T

PS: I have a number of .avis that have accumulated over the years, I 'd love to have them on DVD. But it seems this is almost an impossibility given the current success levle I have been experiencing.