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Need to burn avi files to play in normal DVD player

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My neighbor needs help burning .avi files like divx movies and such so they will play in a regular DVD player. He has Toast 9 but needs to convert the files so they will play when he burns them, but I have no idea what format they need to be in or what software i need to use to convert the files. He has an iMac and is running Leopard.
 
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You might need to convert the AVIs into MPGs, then drop them into a Toast DVD video project.
 
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i just burned an .avi via iDVD and am watching it right now on a regular dvd player, the only thing i didnt like about it is it took about 2 hours
 
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is visualhub substantially faster than iDVD?
 
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is visualhub substantially faster than iDVD?

VisualHub only converts a wide variety of formats to more friendly formats.

iMovie cannot accept .avi, therefor does not do the same thing as VH
 
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well magnine said convert and burn with visualhub, speaking about avi's. i use iDVD to do that(not iMovie), but it takes 2-3 hours, but everyone talks about visualhub so i assumed it was faster, which is what prompted my question.
 
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well magnine said convert and burn with visualhub, speaking about avi's. i use iDVD to do that(not iMovie), but it takes 2-3 hours, but everyone talks about visualhub so i assumed it was faster, which is what prompted my question.

O its much faster.

I'm not too sure that iDvd will convert .avi...
 
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Firstly check that his DVD player might support DivX discs

If it does you can just burn the avi discs to a disc and play without re-encoding, and these will just play (most of the time - depends on the codec of the avi file)
 
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If your DVD player supports Divx then you can simply burn the files as .avi to a dvd and watch them. Alternatively try Toast Titanium. It's not free but definitely worth the money if you're going to be doing this a lot.

Either that or download Burn. It's free and does pretty much anything. I havnt tried it out with encoding and burning DVDs so cant comment on how good it is, but definitely worth a shot....it is free after all :)
 
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