Easy way to burn AVI files onto DVD to play in a DVD player?

[pyrate83]

I am so used to backing up my regular DVD's now that I don't exactly know how to take AVI files and burn them to a DVD so they can be watched on a DVD player. I use DVD decryptor, DVD shrink, and Nero for my regular DVD's and that works just fine but I don't know what to do with these AVI files. I'm sure it's pretty easy but I need a little help.
Thanks.

[Hardcoreruss]

May I recommend the convert section, select avi in the first pull down and dvd in the second, read the guides there.

My process would go something like: -

Virtualdub - Remove audio to wav
Tmpgenc - Convert to Mpeg 2
Tmpgenc DVD author - Create dvd Structure
Nero - Burn

[dun4cheap]

Buy the phillips dvp642 for $69 and then take all the avi's you can fit onto a dvd and burn them as a standard data disc. Then put them in the player and have fun. This machine will play avi, mpg4, divx, xvid, avi with ac3, mp3's and it will be worth the $69 instead of the hours needed to encode one movie. Well thats just an idea.


This dvd player is being sold at the following stores

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=312093&pfp=SEARCH

Wallmart

Best Buy

and I also understand target now.

[wendi]

I agree with Hardcore. That method works awesome for me !

[pyrate83]

Thanks, I will give that a try.

[jimbo4571]

when I burn them to a cd my mpeg files it shows up on my dvd screen as mp3 files control. i am usinmg roxio 6 and burining as a standard data disk what am I doing wrong

[ZippyP.]

i am usinmg roxio 6 and burining as a standard data disk what am I doing wrong

What you're doing wrong is burning them as standard data. Your mpeg needs to be authored. Author section over there <-<-<-

[jimbo4571]

now I really feel dumb what do you mean it must be authored? thanks for your help

[ZippyP.]

what do you mean it must be authored?

Author definition.

[whitetigerboy]

Buy the phillips dvp642 for $69 and then take all the avi's you can fit onto a dvd and burn them as a standard data disc. Then put them in the player and have fun. This machine will play avi, mpg4, divx, xvid, avi with ac3, mp3's and it will be worth the $69 instead of the hours needed to encode one movie.

I totally agree that this dvd player is a great leap forward- instead of converting the .avi's to mpeg2 with tmpgenc and burning to 2 SVCDs, I can just put (most) .avi's unconverted onto a single data cd and play. But when I tried putting a bunch of them onto a data dvd and playing them, the machine "rejected" it - i.e. it simply tried loading the disc for a few minutes and then opened the tray. There was nothing wrong with any of the .avi's, when I put them onto cd's they all played. I'd like to use dvd's (the fewer discs I have to store the better). Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

The only other thing this dvd player is fussy about: there is a "hack" here on this site that tells you how to take the DVDXCOPY warning screen out of DVDs made with that software. I tried that a few times and while those DVDs played perfectly in my old Sanyo, this one rejects them too. I recopied them with DVDShrink and the copies worked fine in the Phillips...

So, any help?

[mouldy mould]

I'm having a problem with DVD2SVCD if anybody can help.
I'm using Dvd2svcd for converting AVI to DVD and I followed the guide all the way up to converting but when i preview all i get is "AVISource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc xvi (C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Temp\preview.avs, line 2)
Can anybody help?

[mats.hogberg]

@mouldy mould and jimbo4571: Hijacking threads in not really considered good manners. This thread belongs to pyrate83. If you have a question of your own, start a new thread - it's very simple., and will most likely give your question more attention as you can even give it your own subject! ...and while on the subject of Subject, try to have a little more fantasy than "Urgent help needed" or similar...
One for you jimbo4571: "Why does my DVD player show the mpegs I've written to CD as mp3 files?"
and one for mouldy mould: "DVD2SVCD error: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc xvi"

/Mats

[Roderz]

Prepare
Encode
Author
Burn