AVI to VOB

[narnia]

I have several AVI files I want to convert to burn on a DVD disc. Each of
these files is about 180MB, and they're 20 minutes long.

I converted a few to VOB. I believe I used WinAVI Converter, but I'm
not sure because it was a while back. The files I converted turned out
at about 280MB.

I'm trying to convert the rest of the files now. When I use WinAVI, or any
other program, it turns them each into 800MB - 1.2GB files!

I burned each of the files, the smaller ones and the larger ones, and there's no great difference in picture quality.

At this rate I will only be able to get 4 files on a disc, or about 80 minutes of viewing. Do you know why the files are being converted to such large VOB files? Thanks!

[Gargoyle]

It's pobably due to the codec that the AVI files were encoded with - some of them can really compress the video, thereby reducing the file size. When you convert them to MPEG2 for DVD, it's not unsual for the MPEG file to be larger than the original AVI. Try using VSO DIVXtoDVD - it works pretty well, and it's free.

[narnia]

That worked. It got the files down to about 500MB. Thanks so much!