burning a DVD

[bigkito]

I have almost 5gb worth of AVI files that I want to burn on a DVD to be able to watch on my TV.....do I have to convert the files to MPEG? I found a program called iVCD but it says it takes hours to convert the files to MPEG then it has to burn them which is an overnight process....how can I be sure that it will play on my DVD player?

[theBB]

If you can watch your AVI files via QuickTime, iDVD should be able to handle them and make the required conversions transparently.

[bigkito]

thanks I just realized that....each AVI file is about 350mb, how many do you think will fit on one DVD-R? And also do you know if theres a way that I can use iDVD to burn it without a theme? Those drop zones that they want in every them are annoying