oh, btw, they're always either avi's or mpgs, etc., in case that wasn't clear any help greatly appreciated! i would love to put 500 short avi's (totally only 2-3 gig) onto a 4.3 …

Are you burning DVD Data or DVD Video? You need to convert all the clips to MPEG2 (which will make them larger or lower quality) and burn a DVD Video if you want it to work in set-…

i download movies from limewire as well as pay sites i belong to, and they DL as avi's or mpgs or mov's. so it's video (they're movies - - not data), rt? are you saying i need to…

You are not understanding. If you want these to work in a DVD player, then they will have to be converted to "video DVD", and one of the things along that process is converting th…

you sound very very knowledgeable ok, so i have this FFmpegX converter thingy can i put these avi's in a format playable by a dvd player by selecting, what?, "DVD mpeg2enc"? or …

btw, i'm experimenting converting an ".avi" to dvd mpeg 2 enc, and just so you know, it is VERY slow going. it's a 700 MB file, and it will prob take hours. it's at 3% done after…

lastly, this 700 MB file i'm converting to dvd mpeg2enc looks like it's gonna be about 8 gig when the conversion is done? is this to be expected? that would be a roughly 10 to 1 …

With FFMpegX, you can change how bit the MPEG-2 file is going to end up by clicking on the "Video" tab and using the bitrate calculator to change the VIdeo Bitrate to fit on 1 DVD.

ok, i'll try that, thanks will it affect how long it'll take. my 700 MB conversion has taken 3 hrs and is 38% done? thanks again

fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB i did that video tab / bitrate calculator thing and it says "170 mins…

Conversion to MPEG2 can take a while, espically on a pokey machine. To get 10 hours of video on a DVD you need to encode them all at about 1002kbps (in MPEG2, of course). Currentl…

thanks for the info, i'll experiment. btw, i have a G5, twin 2.5 mhz when i took a quick look at how it was doing (after about 5 hrs, about halfway done), there was no sound. i …

ok it finally finished converting. the final file was 10 gig so, it wouldn't fit to one disc. i'll have to try changing that bit rate as mduell suggests BUT, when i popped the …

ok, i did the whole thing again and again it's asking where the audio component is (and it's not accepting as a 'valid' audio file the similarly named file w/.wav at the end, which…

Quote: Originally Posted by smileLP fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB) That's WAY too much to fit…

best thing is to just get a phillips DVP 642 that will play your .avi files without conversion. They're like $60 and worth every penny. If you must make a DVD, i think you're on t…

hotani, are you saying that that DVP 642 will play a disc filled w/avi files i just "copied" onto the disc, like copying any data? (a different process than "burning" movies or avi…

(but i will also try the "process" you have outlined, thanks)

reggie X; i've always found the topic of how much fits on a disc confusing i've got 700 MB worth of avi's, and a disc holds 4.3 the avi's play as 10 hrs, but is it the size (700 …

Quote: Originally Posted by smileLP hotani, are you saying that that DVP 642 will play a disc filled w/avi files i just "copied" onto the disc, like copying any data? (a differe…

Quote: Originally Posted by smileLP reggie X; i've always found the topic of how much fits on a disc confusing i've got 700 MB worth of avi's, and a disc holds 4.3 the avi's p…

>>The really easiest way to do this would be Toast, since it'll handle all the conversion for you automatically, and show you how many files will fit on a single DVD. I use T…

hotani, sad to say none of the outlined steps or "missing codecs" resulted in a positive result so i'm now very int'd in that philips dvP 642 one question: how does the menu opt…

also, as many avi's show up "small" on a computer screen, does this dvd player expand each avi to fill the screen (tv) size? thanks again

When you insert a data disc into the DVP 642, it shows a listing of all the files on the disc. When playing them, it resizes to your screen. Only thing I see it having trouble with…