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Actually, it's not all that difficult. Use TMPGEnc. Use the "wizard" and select "DVD"/"NTSC" (if you'e in the US or Japan).
Click on "Next" and select the .AVI video file in the upper box.

If the .AVI file was recorded properly, it will use the .AVI audio file also automatically.

Click "Next" a couple times, to the bitrate setting window. Here you will see how much room your AVI will consume. Reduce the filesize (in the lower box) to about 3.9 gigs if its over that.

Click "Next" and choose where you want to save the m2+wav files it will produce.

OK, you're halfway there...

Now use TMPGEncDVD Author. Use the "wizard" here also to start a "new project".

In the "Source Setup" window, use the "Add file window" to enter the .m2 file that was created earlier.

Then click on the "Create Menu" box at the top.

As a begginer, make it easy: Click on the "Display Menu", then "General", select "Only Main Menu". Then click on the "Chapter Display" tab and uncheck the box there.

Then click on the "Output" box at the top.

Then "Begin Output" button in the middle of the page.

After it makes the .VOB, .IFO, and .BUP files necessary, it will ask you if you want to burn the DVD. EIther say yes - or use Nero to burn.

If your .AVI was of good quality, you'll wind up with an excellent playing DVD.

The above sounds much more complicated than it actually is. My 11 year old daughter captures movies off the cable, compresses them with DivX, then uses TMPGEnc's to make excellent DVD's. She captures at very high bit rates, and encodes them also at high bit rates for best quality.

It's almost a "no-brainer".........

Mark7

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