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rdorsett215

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Are there any special settings for burning an avi file in iDVD5? i was albe to burn an avi file (350mb) using iDVD5, but when i put it in the dvd player the title screen a made in iDVD came up but when i clicked play the movie just was a black screen. any thoughts?
 
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damontgo

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I think DVD players only play certain codecs, and if your video file was only 350Mb it was either very very short, or compressed somehow. I know DivX and Xvid are common codecs for AVI files, which i don't think DVD players can read... do you get sound or no?

I would try to compress in MPEG-2 and then burn a new disc. I think that's the standard for most DVDs.

Can anyone else help? I'm not exactly sure how encoding works with DVD players.
 
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rdorsett215

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thanks...i'll give it a shot. this whole process of burning an AVI to a dvd to be played in a standerd player has been a huge headache. i'm about ready to give up and just buy one of those divx players
 
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Applesaucevideo

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rdorsett215 said:
Are there any special settings for burning an avi file in iDVD5? i was albe to burn an avi file (350mb) using iDVD5, but when i put it in the dvd player the title screen a made in iDVD came up but when i clicked play the movie just was a black screen. any thoughts?
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How exactly did you get an avi file? Was it imported from a windows machine? You should probably convert the file with Quicktime Pro to an m2v file then import it into iDVD 5. However, that is a very short clip, probably not worth wasting a 4.7gb DVD-R disc? Hope this helps.
 
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SPOW05

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I just came across the same issue last night. I tried to add a few .avi files to IDVD, burned the disc, but when I inserted it into my dvd player only the menu screen appeared. When I would click the chapter to play, the screen would just be black. So, by compressing as an MPEG-2, and then re-burning the disc, it should play correctly?
 
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rdorsett215

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i figured out how to use divx doctor 2 and toast 6 to burn the avi file onto a dvd and it plays....not too hard....the file was about 380mb, ,,,,however i just tried to do that with a 700mb file and toast said it was too big. not sure why since the dvd is 4.7 gigs. gotta figure out a way to compress it
 

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