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Avi to dvd..

KrayzieKrayzie Registered User regular
edited February 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So I have a few .avi files that I want to be able to play on my dvd player. I thought the best/easiest way to do this would be to burn to a dvd. However The program that converts/burns it for (dvdsanta) is only a free demo, so when it burns it it leaves like watermarks or something on the video. As I would like to not pay money to do this, are there any programs out there can do what this dvdsanta program does for free without the annoying watermark?

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    whoa whoa whoa, you can burn AVI's to a DVD?

    that can be played on a DVD player? or just for storage/portability?

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  • robaalrobaal Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I suppose you could try AVI2DVD. Its page is riddled with ads, and the guide is in some very strange format, so I'm not sure if you'd want to go there.
    Here's one of the download sites for it.


    Also, I hear that many standalone DVD players can play DivX/XviD encoded video...

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  • yalborapyalborap Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    cooljammer00 wrote:
    whoa whoa whoa, you can burn AVI's to a DVD?

    that can be played on a DVD player? or just for storage/portability?

    Well obvioiusly you can burn AVIs onto a DVD. You can burn any file that'll fit onto a DVD. :P

    And there ARE DVD players that'll play them(oddly enough, it's mostly the cheaper ones), yes, but it's far from standard.

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Rather than go into a long, drawn-out description, I'll just do what inevitably will happen and post the link that was in the last forum topic that covered this.
    Burn almost any video to a DVD
    I swear, one of these needs to be a sticky or added to the AFK, as this comes up A LOT.

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  • robaalrobaal Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    yalborap wrote:
    cooljammer00 wrote:
    whoa whoa whoa, you can burn AVI's to a DVD?

    that can be played on a DVD player? or just for storage/portability?

    Well obvioiusly you can burn AVIs onto a DVD. You can burn any file that'll fit onto a DVD. :P

    Yes, you can make video DVDs out of AVIs. You just need to transcode the video to MPEG-2 with one of the standard DVD resolutions and possibly the audio to AC3 or something. Then you have to make the file structure to look like a DVD so that the player can recognize it and perhaps burn the disc in a special way, so that it will pose as a DVD-Video disc and not a DVD-R in case the player doesn't like writable media.

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