[mr. burns]

i have a lot of avi files that that'd i'd like to make into a video dvd [they're homemade biking videos from a message board community] but whenever i drag them onto toast it says it doesn't have the right codec. is there something i'm missing? are there any other burning programs that would let me do this beside iDVD. i don't want to shell out $80 for it. i'm poor and already spent a bundle on a dvd burner. thanks.

[Uncle Skeleton]

do they play in QuickTime?

[mr. burns]

yes, with the right codec, which i had to get. i got ffmpegX and have been parusing the videohelp.com forums. lots of good info there. i just need to sort through it all.

[Rychiar]

i never got aproper dvd from avi files, i tried to burn some tv shows in both toast and idvd, both took forever to encode, ya couldnt fit much on the disc and they ended up being a frame rate below normal that hurt my eyes. one thing pcs are better than macs at, avi/divx

[Lucky8]

Originally Posted by mr. burns

yes, with the right codec, which i had to get. i got ffmpegX and have been parusing the videohelp.com forums. lots of good info there. i just need to sort through it all.

Can't you convert those .avi files thru ffmpegX so you can burn them on iDVD?