How to put AVI file on a DVDR ?

[scott015]

just curious if its possible, and if so... how bad will the quality be and will it be full screen size ???

[SLK001]

No, you can't (and play it from there). The file systems limit the size of the file (ie, UDF has a max file size of 1 GB).

[cplevel42]

You can put entire Divx AVIs on DVDR. I usually put 3 or 4, 2 hour movies on 1 DVD. I use the data option in Nero or Record Now Max to record to DVD-R.

A company is going to put out a DVD player that will play raw mpegs and avi files burned to DVDR, Divx included, at the end of the year. Of course it will play regular pressed DVDs as well. I can't remember the name of the company though. I want one. Hopefully I can find a way to make it region free and turn the macrovision off.

This is cool, because you will no longer need to convert the Dvix avi to an mpeg by stripping out the audio as a wave, re-encoding to mpeg2 and remuxing the audio, so you can make it a real DVD to play on your set top DVD player.

I have another way around this though. I just play the Dvix file on my computer and enable my TV out from my video card and run a line to my s-video on my TV, so I can watch Dvix files on my TV. The quality is quite good.

[housepig]

if you want to view it on a dvd player (unless you can find one mentioned in the previous post), no, it wouldn't work. you need to convert to a compliant file format and author the disc.

if you want to just archive it and view it on your computer or save it for editing at a later date, sure... just burn it as a dvd-rom data disc.

[Vejita-sama]

You have two options actually. You can but a KISS DVD player which can play avi/DivX/xvid and some other sources directly from a CDR/DVDR disc. Or you can convert the avi to MPEG2 and author it to a DVDR as a DVD Video disc.

The 2nd choice is more common. There are guides to left on how to do both 'Convert' and 'Author' are the two you'll want/need.

You can find reviews on the KISS DVD Players to the left under 'DVD Players.'