avi to DVD

monoman

monoman

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hi,
ive got a few films that are avi format and I want to convert it to dvd and burn it to disk.

also some of the films are 2 seperate avi files: CD1-1st half, CD2-2nd half
can i convert these 2 avi files to one DVD, and burn it, so it plays without a break?

how can i do this?
thanks
 
You can do this in Nero, convert an Avi file and make your own DVD.

You can play the two simultaneously as well, it should give you the option somewhere in Nero.

Sorry if this is all a bit vague, but i haven't used Nero in a while.
 
what are they encoded with?

My best advice to you would be just to get a dvd player capable of playing video files encoded in mpeg-4, and then all you have to do is burn all of the movies to a dvd-rom.

Recoding mpeg-4 to mpeg-2 is a waste.

It takes FOREVER (probably 2x the length of the video file or more depending on the source codecs) you'll lose even more quality, not to mention if you leave them compressed in the avi carrier, you can fit 6 700MB .avi files onto a single dvd.

DIVX certified dvd players go for as low as $39.99 these days. Mine's a toshiba sd-3990 from best buy for $39, and plays dvd, mp3, wma, wmv, video cd's, kvcd's, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, and .avi files encoded with generic mpeg-4, divx, and xvid, even ones with ac3 sound, and has subtitle support.

The only thing i wish it had was a flash card slot, so i could load subtitles for foreign movies, if i forget to record the subtitles onto the disc with the movies.

You can download the subtitles into the onboard memory, but it's a waste to burn another entire dvd just to put the subtitles on it (a 10kb file)
 
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thanks both,
this is not a good area for me at all, i know very little about video files, (apart from whether the film is any good or not)

MPEG-4 is the same as AVI?
MPEG-2 is better quality than MPEG-4, but a bigger file size?

Ideally, I want the film to be high quality, and im not too bothered about having lots on one disk, so whats the best option?
this DIVX player hardware or software?
nero sounds like a good option,
thanks
 
the dvd player i was talking about is an actual dvd player, looks, feels, functions like a normal dvd player, but you can put a cd-rom or dvd-rom with data files (the avi files you already have) and play them without converting them to an actual dvd-video disk first.

Your dvd player may already have this functionality. Try burning the files to a disk, and see if your dvd player reads them. More and more dvd players are including the mpeg-4 decoders nowadays. I know my dad's dvd player works with divx, and he doesn't even know what that is, haha.
 
hehe,
the DVD player sounds good but I dont want to buy any additional hardware, looking for a software solution really, but i have a dvd drive on my PC, so maybe i just need codecs tom play the different file types. I think I will use nero to burn the disks because i can play the two halfs of the film as one single video.
thanks
 
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