I downloaded some fitness videos (avi files) and want to see them on my dvd player. I tried to convert one of them to DVD format using Avi2Dvd program. Dat really didn't work, for some reason, it only converted about 15 minutes of the video, and it took about 9 hours! Are there other formats that can be played on a dvd player but dont take hours to convert? Thanx for any help.
I'm sure that on http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ you'll find lot of methods to convert an AVI to DVD MPEG2.
A personal suggestion: since it doesn't seem you want to watch, on your DVD player, a "Kolossal" , like Star Wars trilogy or Independence Day, with Dolby Surround sound, my opinion is that making a plain VCD MPEG-1 (the fastest way to watch AVIs in a standalone DVD player) is excellent.
Its resolution will be 352x240 instead of 720x480 and there's no Dolby Surrond (AC3) sound but MP2, but the quality is very good, too.
More, you can fit, if you Author the DVD with DVD Lab (The only which accepts multiple VCD movies in a DVD without re-encoding them into DVD MPEG-2 format), you can fit approx 450' of videos (1' VCD = 10 MB) in a plain 4.5 GB DVD-R and twice as much in a dual layer 9 GB one. The only drawback of VCD is if you use a CD-R only 80' of movie fit in a 800 MB CD-R, so often you must use 2 CD-R for a whole movie, but won't be our case, since you'll put multiple movies on a DVD-R using DVD Lab for authoring. More, you'll save lot of room on your bookcase to keep your stuff (1 DVD x 450' videos). Believe me, this is the cheapest and less time-consuming solution!
