Having a problem with sound when authoring my DVDs

[ModuRaziel]

So I have a bunch of .avi's and .mkv's sitting on my HDD. I want to burn them into DVDs so I can watch them on any DVD player I have. I have tried two approaches. One was using Nero's DVD authoring tool Nerovision. In the final product, it begins okay, but eventually the video starts to pause and skip, and the audio de-syncs with the video.

I then decided to try DVD Flick. I found the program itself much simpler and easier to use, but whenever I burn using it, during the audio encoding process, I get an error from ffshow for each audio track saying that ffshow has encoutnered a problem and needs to shut down. The genuine windows crash error. Then once the disc is completed, there is no sound save for a sort of clicking that keeps repeating while the disc is playing.

So my question is this: can anybody help me to fix this problem so that I can burn all of my video files onto DVD to watch on my player?

[mats.hogberg]

Try convertx2dvd. That said, you're expecting quite a lot of an application to error free handle a random collection of videos, and successfully convert them to a working Video DVD.
Since both AVI and MKV is just container formats, they can contain audio and video in a (huge) number of different codecs, which may or may not be supported on your system. But like I said, convertx2dvd seems to be closest to this dream of "one click anything to DVD" application.

/Mats

[ModuRaziel]

Hm. I'll give that one a try. I wouldn't say I'm trying for a one-click solution though. Obviously, thats a tad far-fetched. It just seems to me that there should be an easier way of converting this stuff onto DVD properly, even with minor errors. THe problems that I;m encountering right now are anything but minor. They make the final product completely unviewable.

Also, this thing about .avis and .mkvs being container formats I never knew. Is there any simple way of converting them all into a unified format that isn't a "container"?

[mats.hogberg]

If you want to convert the "real" (hard, some would say) way, look up the source file types under CONVERT left, like "AVI to DVD" and start reading the guides.
All audio/video files come in a "container": mpg, AVI, mp4, ogm, mkv, vob... That's beacuse they are audio and video "files" wrapped together.

/Mats

[theewizard]

for mkv use mkvtools and mkvextractgui to get avi files & audio tracks

avidemux will put them back together in minutes

you can then get as simple ot complicated ( many steps ) as you want

convertX will take multiple avi files and create one DVD