DVD recording in AVI

Hi,I am new to burning DVD's and I have a question.I have downloaded a
few AVI files,Movies,that will play in windows media but if i burn it to
a dvd it won't work in my DVD player.I used Xilisoft DVD Creator and it
burnt fine but won't play in the recorder.Just on my pc.I tried using
nero,dvd shrink,cheetah and a couple others.Can anyone give me some
insight? I would really appreciate it
Thanks RH710

"RH710" <rhall710@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,I am new to burning DVD's and I have a question.I have downloaded a few
> AVI files,Movies,that will play in windows media but if i burn it to a dvd
> it won't work in my DVD player.I used Xilisoft DVD Creator and it burnt
> fine but won't play in the recorder.Just on my pc.I tried using nero,dvd
> shrink,cheetah and a couple others.Can anyone give me some insight? I
> would really appreciate it
> Thanks RH710

You have to make sure your DVD player will play
..avi files (or Divx). The Philips dvd players will.
Also, you need to save the .avi files as DATA and
not as VIDEO files. Or, you need to convert the .avi
files into .mpg files.

Good luck.

--
Irulan
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to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.

On May 23, 12:33 am, RH710 <rhall...@mail.com> wrote:
> Hi,I am new to burning DVD's and I have a question.I have downloaded a
> few AVI files,Movies,that will play in windows media but if i burn it to
> a dvd it won't work in my DVD player.I used Xilisoft DVD Creator and it
> burnt fine but won't play in the recorder.Just on my pc.I tried using
> nero,dvd shrink,cheetah and a couple others.Can anyone give me some
> insight? I would really appreciate it
> Thanks RH710

You need ConvertXtoDVD & CopyToDVD. .avi won't run on a DVD player
from a DVD.
When an .avi is converted to .dvd it greatly increases in file size.
You won't need DVDShrink or DVDDecryptor either. Just convert & copy
to dvd.

sandy58 wrote:
> On May 23, 12:33 am, RH710 <rhall...@mail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,I am new to burning DVD's and I have a question.I have downloaded a
>> few AVI files,Movies,that will play in windows media but if i burn it to
>> a dvd it won't work in my DVD player.I used Xilisoft DVD Creator and it
>> burnt fine but won't play in the recorder.Just on my pc.I tried using
>> nero,dvd shrink,cheetah and a couple others.Can anyone give me some
>> insight? I would really appreciate it
>> Thanks RH710
>
> You need ConvertXtoDVD & CopyToDVD. .avi won't run on a DVD player
> from a DVD.
> When an .avi is converted to .dvd it greatly increases in file size.
> You won't need DVDShrink or DVDDecryptor either. Just convert & copy
> to dvd.
>
Thanks Sandy i'll try that.I have seen your name in different newsgroups
and you have helped me before hugggggggggggggggggggggggggg
RH710

RH710 wrote:
> Hi,I am new to burning DVD's and I have a question.I have downloaded a
> few AVI files,Movies,that will play in windows media but if i burn it to
> a dvd it won't work in my DVD player.I used Xilisoft DVD Creator and it
> burnt fine but won't play in the recorder.Just on my pc.I tried using
> nero,dvd shrink,cheetah and a couple others.Can anyone give me some
> insight? I would really appreciate it
> Thanks RH710

I just did one, an episode of House M.D. in AVI format. I converted it
to DVD with ConvertXtoDVD, and it plays fine on my Panasonic. You can
download a trial version.

http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/

Mike O'Sullivan wrote:
> RH710 wrote:
>> Hi,I am new to burning DVD's and I have a question.I have downloaded a
>> few AVI files,Movies,that will play in windows media but if i burn it
>> to a dvd it won't work in my DVD player.I used Xilisoft DVD Creator
>> and it burnt fine but won't play in the recorder.Just on my pc.I tried
>> using nero,dvd shrink,cheetah and a couple others.Can anyone give me
>> some insight? I would really appreciate it
>> Thanks RH710
>
> I just did one, an episode of House M.D. in AVI format. I converted it
> to DVD with ConvertXtoDVD, and it plays fine on my Panasonic. You can
> download a trial version.
>
> http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/
Thanks.I tried ConvertXtoDVD and it worked fine.I appreciate the help.
RH710