.avi files

Alright please do not jump all over me. I am a new Mac user. I recently purchased myself the new 24" iMac. It took a while for me to save up for it, and I am very proud of the fact that I purchased it myself with my own earned money. Now I have a few .avi files left over from my windows machine. My windows machine did not have a DVD burner. The iMac does of course. Now when using iDVD, or even Roxio Toast Titanium to try to make a DVD (that will work in a DVD player) I am un-successful. This is very frustrating, I have gone through about 20 DVD+Rs. I am sick of wasting them. I have tried converting it over to a DVD format using Visual Hub. No luck. It mounts everything. But I still don't know what I am supposed to do with what was mounted then. I'm sorry I am clueless. But if someone could help me it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Have you installed all the right codecs? That is, can you play those files properly in quicktime?

Get Burn for OS X (free),

ON the screen there are tabs. You will want the Video Tab. Then select from the dropdown "DVD". Now drag your file into the Box. It will ask if you want to covert to mpeg2 or some DVD friendly format. 'Yes'...then if it doesn't try to burn it immediately, pay attention to what you title it, and then find it on your mac, and just use BURN to burn it.

Brian

thank you very much. I actually had burn. I forgot that I had it. It worked beautifully. Although it doesn't work in the PS2. But that's alright. Thank you again.