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burning avi's to dvd?

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I've done a bit of research here and tried the suggestions but i'm still having problems. I have an .avi file that I want on DVD to watch on a normal dvd player. First, it plays perfectly on VLP. I first downloaded a converter (3ivx and divx doctor II 2.5) After running it through the doctor, it would play in quicktime, but without audio. Oh yeah, while running it through the doctor it said something about the audio file being ac3 and it was going to dump it. Now, it just plays on any player, but without audio. i've tried using idvd and divx6 with their codec that i put in the quicktime folder. Anyone have any suggestions? thanks
 
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Try FFmpegX to convert it into a DVD iso or bin/cue. Then burn the image to DVD.
 
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Thanks guilio.

When I download FFmpegX, it says I need to download two other files (mpeg2enc & ffmpegXbinaries). The ffmpegXbinaries is a zip and seems fine, so far. The mpeg2enc doesn't seem to download at all. The hosting site says to "control click on the link, and save to disk". I have the option of "saving to desktop". When I do that, it saves as a txt file and is nothing but code. Is that normal/what I want and what do I need to do with it now?
 
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One more thing. When I open FFmpegX, it brings it's own install which says I need to install mpeg2enc, mencoder, mplayer When I try and install those it says
You must locate mpeg2enc file in your disk by clicking on Locate... in order to install it.

If I try and skip that and install mencoder, it says the same thing for that file and again with mplayer. What am I not doing right? thanks again

ps. If I click on the icons with that label, nothing different happens.
 
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Never mind. It's been a long day trying to do this and I didn't read the directions very well. I've never burned a DVD and i'm begining to lose my patience, lol. So far, so good, i'll try and convert and burn now.
 
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Toast will burn the avi to dvd as well.
 
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I tried toast, it kept crashing. I'm trying the suggestion above, and burning it with toast right now. hopefully that works.
 
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using toast, it still didn't transfer the audio. This was what I did after doing the above suggestion. Anymore ideas? If I can get it to play right in QT, then I should be ok, right?
 
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I hadn't tried Itunes or IMovie. Just before bed, I tried again to encode the movie with FFmpegx, this time to mpeg4. I can now play it in quicktime and it saved it as .mov.mp4. I'll try and burn it later in either Idvd (slow) or toast(not as slow) Is there something that is faster, or is this just the nature of the beast.
 
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If you just want to burn a simple AVI with no menus or anything, you can use burn, which will let you do just that quickly and simply. It's not very configurable though, so if you want anything else you might be better looking elsewhere. I've had nothing but trouble with FfmpegX, although plain old command-line ffmpeg works fine. It doesn't seem to be able to 'see' the extra downloads, despite downloading and pointing it to them several times.
 
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Thanks for all the tips. If I convert them to FfmpegX as a Mpeg4, then burn in IDVD, it works like a charm. When I convert, I click the audio tab and select #1. Don't know if that matters or not, but it's working for me:)
 
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Glad to hear you got it working!
 

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