Avi To Dvd - Audio Cutting Out

Hi folks,

For the last few months I've been happily using iDVD to burn .avi movies to dvd. Everything worked perfectly until yesterday. I burned off a disc and when I played it in the DVD player the audio cut out after about 5 minutes into the movie. I checked the .avi file it came from and it plays with sound all the way through.

Thinking it might be the brand of disk I bought some more expensive ones, selected a different .avi movie and burned that. Again the same thing happens - about 5 or 10 minutes in the audio cuts out on the DVD even though the original .avi is fine.

I tried both the disks in my macbook and the audio is cutting out in the same place, so I know it's not my dvd player.

Has anyone encountered this problem before? Any ideas on soloutions?

I'm using Magic iDVD to burn the disks.

Many thanks,
Michael.

I never use Magic iDVD. I just create a new project, and do it all manually.

Thanks Leopard
I've never really figured out my way around iDVD so I don't know how to create a project manually. If you could outline how to do this I'm happy to give it a try.

I've tried switching the project settings to PAL which I hoped might be helpful but no....

I've burned the same .avi using the same batch of disks on my wife's Windows machine and the resulting movie works perfectly. I again tried burning a couple of other avi movies with iDVD on my macbook, and the same thing keeps happening i.e the movies plays fine and then always about 7 - 8 minutes in the audio cuts out.

I know there has to be somebody out there who knows why this is happening!!!! Help....!!!!

I remember having some problem with iDVD last year and when I cleared my hard drive to leave 15+ gb of space it seemed to sort the problem out...... Would this have any bearing on burning DVDs??