11-26-2006, 03:27 PM

I was trying iDVD for the first time, attempting to convert some avi files into a DVD. I imported the avi files into iDVD and created my menus and everything seemed to work fine except that when I chose one of the movies in the menu in preview it just gave me a black screen. I thought that it may just be the preview that was having the problem so I burned the DVD to see what happened and when I play the dvd, the menus work fine but when I go to play the movies it just gives me a black screen like in preview on the computer. Has anyone else had the same problem or am I just not getting something? Thanks.

11-26-2006, 03:43 PM

I'd recommend converting the avi files to mpeg4 or mpeg2 before you add them to iDVD.

Avi files can be encoded a whole bunch of different ways, so that's most likely causing the issue.

Try using a different conversion app if quicktime pro can't do it correctly either.

11-26-2006, 03:47 PM

I thought that at first so I tried to download ffmpegx but the download keeps timing out with the server or something. I don't have quicktime pro so I don't know how else I could convert to mpeg 2 or 4.