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First I would say go to the doom9 link and read their opening statement. It reiterates some of what I said. There will be a loss (a substantial one) converting AVI to dvd. If your encoding your own media it makes no sense to compress it first. So I'm assuming we're talking about shared avi's gotten over the net (usually poor quality to begin with).
Now I live in Canada and buy (wholesale) blank DVD-r's by the hundreds (spindles), retail 7-9 dollars. I get them for about 3 dollars (Canadian). If I buy a spindle of 80 min Cd-r's (retail) I can get a cd for about 30 - 45 cents. That's with all applicable taxes (and we have a media tax added above the 15% sales tax). So maybe you can get dvd recordable media cheaper. But for me not comparable yet.
"Secondly even svcd cannot capture most AVI's without sacrificing a lot of quality."-???? I'd go on about bitrates and and compression but I think it's futile (Video divX 1000kbits/s -DVD 8000kbits/s-SVCD 2500kbits/s max). The better picture probably comes from your DVD players filters (my sony doesn't filter vcd's so they look horable compared to playback on my panasonic). Not from the conversion. The end product is only as good as the source.
"BTW: most newer DVD players will play SVCD." -This may be true in Europe/Asia but not in North America. All my players are less than two years old (2 Sony (less than two months), an Hitachi (proscan), Panasonic (proscan), and Panasonic(recorder)) none play svcd's but all play VCD's.
That said, Afterdawn seems much more qeared to going from DVD to CD than with DVD burning in general. Perhaps that will change as DVD rippers(Do you mean rewriters/recorders/burners???) drop in price and more people are useing them. ??? - You need to scope more forums- I've gotten straight forward information on utilities I wanted to try (DVD burning) and thank all the posters for that.
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