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Burning .avi for living room entertainment

Hey all:

I've only had my DVD burner for a few days now, and tonight some friends want to get together and watch American History X.

Hopefully I can (with some help) figure out how to do this. I've read a little, and from what I've gathered, I need to convert the .avi to mpeg1 or mpeg2? I have seen a few programs on download.com

After this, what method do i use to burn the movie to a DVD?

I've seen alot of different programs at methods on VideoHelp.com; could someone recommend a program or something to get me started?

Thanks a ton!

Edit: Freeware please!

Last edited by the_jamester, June 30th, 2005 12:30 AM (Edited 1 times)

most dvd burners come with software that can do it straight out of the box
the most common one is nerovision express, which is pretty simple to use and does it all for you.

most other dvd burning programs can also burn straight from avi to dvd.
you should be able to find one on download.com
you probably wont need a seperate conversion programme.

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Full tutorials on converting DVD and vise versa, they are very easy to follow and have links to everything you need: http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/guides.htm

But, I beleive this is what you are after:
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/conversionguides.htm

I just got a dvd burner yesterday, so I know how you feel! But I do have a lot of experience with VCD's before that.

What Aidan linked to is the best site for all your dvd backup, along with dvdrhelp.com which is a bit more newbie friendly.

I would specifically look at:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/tmpg-dvdencoding.htm - To encode the contents into a new file, smaller so it fits on dvd-r

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/tmpg-dvdauthor.htm - To place the encoded file onto your dvd-r

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Last edited by Daystar, June 30th, 2005 01:18 PM (Edited 1 times)

i use "Cucusoft AVI to VCD DVD" and just burn the mpg file to a dvd disc....

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Thanks alot for the help guys, I'll look into those links when I get home this afternoon!

I'll also try Nero: I have it somewhere.

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