Burning Avi's to DVD?

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 16 Dec 2006 2:01 am

I've got some YouTube videos that are in avi format, what do I need to do to make a disk that'll play in my DVD player?

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 16 Dec 2006 7:01 pm

Andy,
You will need a converter, I've been looking for a freeware version, but to no avail guess I'm gonna have to break down and buy a program unless someone knows of a freebee. I bought a 512mb camcorder that does 1/2hr, but you have to use it to watch on TV.

Bill

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 16 Dec 2006 7:54 pm

Do I need to convert the avi's to another format before I burn them onto a DVD disk?

John Fabian · Post by **John Fabian** » 18 Dec 2006 6:22 am

Yes. You need to change the format. The best way to do this is with some kind of DVD authoring program.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 18 Dec 2006 9:46 am

I think I am a bit confused here, I have two different DVD burning programs ( Nero and Roxio) both allow for burning of AVI files as well as many other formats as standard recognized file formats.

YouTube files are genrally .FLV files, are you sure you are not talking about YouTube FLV files which were downloaded from YouTube with the YouTube downloader ? Those files must be converted with a 3rd party program, which after the conversion to AVI or MPG they look pretty bad.

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 18 Dec 2006 11:25 am

Tony, I used to download the youtube videos and then add the flv extension until I found this video downloader on another thread. All you do is copy and paste the url and then the downloader converts it to either avi or mpeg format.

John Fabian · Post by **John Fabian** » 19 Dec 2006 3:26 am

You can burn AVI files to a
DVD but they will not be playable on a DVD player unless they have been encoded into a format that the DVD player can use and recognize.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 19 Dec 2006 6:28 am

When you "burn" a DVD that is to be played in a DVD player, you put a lot of stuff on to the DVD that ain't video. There are tracks of data, and whole structures of data, video and non-video, that must be assembled and burned to the disk for the player to know what to do with the disk. That is what the "authoring" program does.
That's why a DVD isn't just video files. Check out the book "DVD Demystified" that is available for purchase. Do a google search on it.