Burn avi to DVD

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Hi

Anyone know what I can use to create a DVD player readable disc of avi's ?

Example a "data" burn can take about 12 episodes of linux, but a dvd player cannot read that disc.

I tried some AVI to DVD converters, but either the quality is low or you get very few episodes on a DVD.

Thanks
George
 
When you're burnin data you're concerned about space. So putting AVIs on a DVD in a data burn will give you 4.7GB. When you're burning in video format you're concerned with time, so you'll fit around two hours on a standard DVD. That's only two or three episodes in video format. It's just the way it works.
 
george_vg said:
I tried some AVI to DVD converters, but either the quality is low or you get very few episodes on a DVD.
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Thats the way it is.

Compression on the AVIs is much better than on DVDs so you are effectively uncompressing them. That means you either need lots of DVDs or reduce the quality.
 
try a tool like dvdshrink if you want to shrink it while in dvd format... you won`t get the compression you do with divx though.
btw an uncompressed avi can be insanely huge, and dvds are by default already compressed.
 
Just buy a DVD player than plays DivX format. Hi-fi corp has them for around R300.

Then you can get twelve episodes onto a DVD.
 
Garyvdh said:
Just buy a DVD player than plays DivX format. Hi-fi corp has them for around R300.

Then you can get twelve episodes onto a DVD.
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The friend promises me that his DVD players, both of them can play DivX but he says the players cannot read the disc done with Windows 7 internal burner....but you gave me the idea to unpack my old player to see what that does
 
george_vg said:
The friend promises me that his DVD players, both of them can play DivX but he says the players cannot read the disc done with Windows 7 internal burner....but you gave me the idea to unpack my old player to see what that does
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nERO ftw++
 
I got a DVD player for R199 from Game and it plays AVI well, even has a usb port so you can plug your memory stick in there. Reads my AVI files that I create with K9Copy in Linux.
 
wizdumb said:
would nero convert the avi to a readable format that a normal dvd player can read?
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Yes

Edit: just adding that avi and some mpeg files are already readable, all they need is the correct container so that a player can understand what to do with it. Nero will let you add video, and then place them in a container that will be readable by non divx enabled players.
 
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You need to use a burning program that burns avi files to a dvd disc & then you can play it on a dvd player that has divx capability. Use Nero Burn or Alcohol as your software under Windows 7 as I have found the Windows 7 internal burning program to be problematic. This should solve your problem.
 
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the problem I have found with (most) divx dvd players is that there is a 1 gig read limit on avi files.
ie. if a movie is not split into 2 files but is maybe 1.5 gigs big, the movie will play fine until about 2/3 of the way, then just stop.

obviously movie files split into 2 x 700 meg files are fine.
and media players will play all of it fine.
 
i'm clearly the only one that doesn't have a clue what the op is asking.
what does "twelve episodes of linux" mean?
are you having an issue with the compression software, codec used, compression quality, or format burned?
are you transcoding and burning on win/mac/linux?
assuming you have a divx/mp3 capable player, you would need a decent transcoding app, tweak the compression in order to fit more files on a disk.
some dvd players are also capable of wmv playback, which could offer better quality at lower filesize and has less codec compatibility issues.
 
The best program for converting AVI to DVD is ConvertXtoDVD.

I will live and die by this program as it works perfectly for me. You can also use it to convert other formats such as MKV, MP4, etc. to DVD
 
It think the issue might be with the DVD players? I have copied some other linux episodes for someone else using Win7 internal burner onto DVD and they are watching those on their DVD player direct...
I will however also look at Nero as mentioned by "Happy Camper"... I have also tried ConvertX as mentioned, but that creates the problem of either very few episodes on a DVD or the lack of quality as I have encountered.
Ideal would be direct avi burns, which fits about 12 episodes on a DVD without loss of quality. Thus the problem may be more in DVD player's codec library... is avi not also a "container" for different formats?
 
george_vg said:
It think the issue might be with the DVD players? I have copied some other linux episodes for someone else using Win7 internal burner onto DVD and they are watching those on their DVD player direct...
I will however also look at Nero as mentioned by "Happy Camper"... I have also tried ConvertX as mentioned, but that creates the problem of either very few episodes on a DVD or the lack of quality as I have encountered.
Ideal would be direct avi burns, which fits about 12 episodes on a DVD without loss of quality. Thus the problem may be more in DVD player's codec library... is avi not also a "container" for different formats?
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You're getting confused :wtf: :D

DIVX enabled players will play avi's no problem, copy them as they are onto disk and watch them no problem, no conversions required and many can fit on the disk as they are still in their original avi format.

Older players and non-divx enabled players will need to have those files either put into a dvd container or converted or both. This conversion process sometimes makes the file MUCH larger than the original (and most times with a loss of quality too) and hence you will only fit a few episodes on the disk as opposed to the previous process.

In Linux with DEVEDE if the files are already MPG or AVI format you can specify that the files are already playable and just need the container in place which is exactly what you want, no conversion will take place, devede will just add the files to the container and create the iso for you with menu shortcuts included. Nifteh! :D

HTH a bit.
 
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