Watching AVIs on DVD

[dignan27]

Hello there,

I'm guessing this might have been tackled somewhere already so if someone could please push me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

I currently have about 2 dozen avi files comprising a couple gigs worth of space, episode of a tv show. What I am wanting to do is put those on a DVD and have them be accessible to view on a normal DVD player. However I don't know how to go about this without converting the files and if I do that I would think that the 18 episodes would no longer fit onto just one DVD.

I have seen this done before in that I had someone burn me a dvd that had 3 2 hour long episodes on it. The quality was obviously low, but I'm not interested in that, I just want to fit all of the files onto a single disc for the time being.

Any ideas? I am working on a Mac right now with Toast, but will eventually move back to a PC.

[garrisonkw]

Look in the glossary to the left for DVD-VCD. That's most likely what you're aiming for.

You have to convert the video to VCD resolution MPEG1 and then convert the audio so it's DVD compliant. There are a number of ways to do this.

It might be easier to just convert to DVD. You'll have to use more discs, but it's worth it. I typically fit an average 22 episode season onto 6 DVDs. Quality is good and it's not like I watch more than 4 or 5 episodes at a time ever.

If you still want DVD-VCD here's a forum entry that may help...

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=967570&highlight=avi+dvdvcd#967570

[bolinboy]

Alternatively you could buy an MPEG4 compatible DVD player (like a Yamada DVX6100, available nowadays for about 60 bucks) which would enable you to put everything on one DVD and then be able to watch the shows on your main TV!

[mats.hogberg]

If you settle for VCD quality, you can fit 6-7 hours of video as Video DVD. Just encode your AVIs to VCD specs mpg (but choose 48 kHz audio sample fq instead of the VCD standard 44.1 kHz) and author as DVD.

/Mats