[Larry Klassen]

Hi folks, I've done a bunch of searches but haven't come up with anything yet. I'm wondering how to make an AVI file into a DVD that can play on a TV and still look good (is it possible to approach DVD quality, for e.g.). I've tried with iDVD, but when I drag the file into one of the windows, once it burns it looks pretty crappy - grainy, and the flow "stutters" (for lack of a better term). I did it on a dual layer DVD and it said it was going to take up about 7+ gigs, but it looks at best like some poorly compressed file onto a CD.

I've tried Roxio 7 (Popcorn 2) - won't recognize it. I'm not too savvy with this, I know it says it needs to be a VT2 file, but even when I switch to image file it won't recognize it.

Any thoughts? Any tips? its a movie-sized AVI file. I've tried it with a number of different files, without luck.

Oh, my system is an iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1g ram. Mac OS X version 10.4.10

Thanks to all those out there that know more than me about this (and you are many!).

[Big Mac]

You need Toast, the Mac standard for burning software. It's a two click operation, and it handles the conversion process itself. Terrific software.

[P]

Toast is the easiest way to do it. ffmpegX will also do it, but is harder to set up correctly.

Quality will be decent with either - not quite DVD quality, but close enough.

[bearcatrp]

Use MPEG streamclip from Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows .
Randy