Sony DVD Architect vs. AVI

I am trying to get Sony DVD Architect 5 (trial version) to do what I
consider the second simplest task for an authoring program: to make one DVD
out of three AVIs; no menus, no nothing. And DVD Architect fails.

Gspot 2.70 says the AVIs are OK and all necessary codecs installed. DVD
Architect manual says AVIs are accepted, no limitations, no conditions. All
player SW that I have play the AVIs without problems.

Yet, DVD Architect is adamant: "The file is not of the required format". In
fact, it says this of all the AVIs that I have, and they come from different
sources.

Somebody in some forum said that he got around this problem by changing the
FourCC field in the AVI file header to value "DIVX". I tried this; no help.

So, has somebody succeeded to get DVD Architect to accept AVIs? What are the
conditions? Something specific within the AVI, some particular codec,
something else?

Matti P.

"Matti Partonen" <matti.partonen@dlc.fi> wrote in message
news:_Q_Bl.3989$xx4.1491@uutiset.elisa.fi...
>I am trying to get Sony DVD Architect 5 (trial version) to do what I
>consider the second simplest task for an authoring program: to make one DVD
>out of three AVIs; no menus, no nothing. And DVD Architect fails.
>
> Gspot 2.70 says the AVIs are OK and all necessary codecs installed. DVD
> Architect manual says AVIs are accepted, no limitations, no conditions.
> All player SW that I have play the AVIs without problems.
>
> Yet, DVD Architect is adamant: "The file is not of the required format".
> In fact, it says this of all the AVIs that I have, and they come from
> different sources.
>
> Somebody in some forum said that he got around this problem by changing
> the FourCC field in the AVI file header to value "DIVX". I tried this; no
> help.
>
> So, has somebody succeeded to get DVD Architect to accept AVIs? What are
> the conditions? Something specific within the AVI, some particular codec,
> something else?
>
> Matti P.
>

Just a guess but you might find that a DVD authoring program
finds DVD compliant MPEG easier to digest. Have you considered
transcoding the "AVI" (which could be anything in terms of video,
audio, and other streams) into the DVD compliant format that the
DVD authoring program needs to work with? Even if the authoring
program accepts some forms of "AVI", it will be transcoding it into
DVD compliant MPEG before it can author the DVD.

You can have control over the transcoding process if you use an
dedicated encoding program.

Luck;
Ken