Convert Avi to an area 1 DVD

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I know someone here can give me a quick link or explanation

I need to burn an avi onto a DVD in DVD format so in will play on US DVD players (ie a very standard dvd player that wont even play vcds)

Where do I start (I don’t need any menus or anything, if it just plays, that’s fine)

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Try this program, it’s open source and works quite nice http://www.dvdstyler.de/index.html

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thanks ondrew, checking it out right now…

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nice authoring program, but it doesn’t convert avi files… have to find a free converter utility… I would’ve thought you could do whatever elephants dream team did, but the way I understand it, joeri used commercial software for the dvd authoring… hmm, anyone know of a handy little conversion utility?

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Hm, I thought DVDstyler supported conversion.

You can use mencoder, which is my favourite, but a little complicated to setup
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html

Or you can try some of these tutorials
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdr-guides.htm

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Use zone 0 --or no zone. Since there is no point forcing to zone 1 and I think you will find that that is the default anyway. I use mencoder, very nice and you don’t need gigabytes of temp storage.

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Google search dvd flick.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=How+to+use+dvd+flick+to+convert+video+such+as+avi++to+dvd+for+free