Burning .avi to DVD

I have 2 .avi files that I want to burn to a DVD for use in a standalone dvd player. I did a search and read the tutorials, but I'm still confused about the process. I have Toast, Popcorn, ffmpegx (which I'm not quite sure how to use yet). I basically need a dumbed-down how-to with steps to take my avi's and burn them to a DVD. Thanks in advance guys!

yea ill second that one, was messing with ffmpegx and all the stuff it told me download and it still made no sense as there was nothing to compile just bash scripts

I recommend trying Divx Doctor 2 to convert it to a .mov, then in toast, use the video tab to burn them.
note: converting to a .mov will close to double the size at least.

I tried using DivX Doctor II, and everytime I try it, it gives me a message saying there was an error while doctoring the avi. I tried ffmpegx too, it took forever, but I *think* it might be working, I'll have to wait and see as Toast is currently encoding it. Any more suggestions are welcome, but as always, thanks MacMan

Well I read this thread earlier this morning and decided to give it a go with the above helpful ideas. This encoding process can't be going the right way.. I only needed to burn 1:35 minutes. It's been encoding since about 9:30 AM (it's 2:03PM now) and I'm only 75% done so far. Is this normal?

I did... .avi > .mov with Divx Doctor II. And now Toast is running the rest.. Is there a more efficient program out there?

You can burn avi's in iDVD5

Drag and drop like or is it a bit keyboard intensive? And will they play in a stand alone normal TV type DVD Player?

Drag and drop and they work

Ah.. Nice.. What are the turn around times? Does it not need to go through the same "encoding" process?

i think i did something wrong with iDVD then. I tried that last night, and left it overnight. when i woke up this morning it said that encoding failed. what am i doing wrong?

This is incredable... It's 4:10 and still not done!

Just my luck.. For whatever reason the toast let me start the job, with enough disk space only to 5+hours later tell me there isn't enough room. ***

yea, iDVD is pretty slow too, but if it works it really wont matter to me.