want to view and avi on dvd player

Hi

Another mac newbie. Have an avi file that I wish to view on my dvd player/tv. In windows I would convert using nero but not sure how to do it on a macbook

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers
Al

al gilliland said:

Hi

Another mac newbie. Have an avi file that I wish to view on my dvd player/tv. In windows I would convert using nero but not sure how to do it on a macbook

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers
Al

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Well what do you want to convert it to, DVD? Then you need to convert it to mpeg2 then burn it using toast.

convert it to mp2 or mp4

Hi

Do I need to convert it to mp2 or mp4 before using toast. Do dvd players recognize mp2

Al

DVD players generally only recognize mpeg-2.

Drag it into Toast, it should convert it to mpeg-2 on the fly, unless Toast doesn't have the proper codec, since .avi is a wrapper, not a format.

if you have a dvd burner, iDVD will convert and burn an avi in one step.

I'm having a problem with the video using Toast 7. The movie my friend made (not sure what he used or how it was formatted, although it is an avi file) plays on both his desktop and my laptop fine but when I burn it as a DVD and play it in a DVD player not all of the image is viewable on the screen.

Basically it looks like the movie was made for widescreen, because I lose almost 50% of the video because it's not fitting according to screen size.


Is there something I'm doing wrong or a program I can buy that will fix my problem? It's basically something for school and I don't want to lose out on quality because we didn't exactly have any high quality recording gear so it's important that the video id affected as little as possible.

Thanks in advance,

Jason

At least you had an image on your DVD player. Mine works fine in the Mac, but my DVD player/recorder rejects the disk.