Burning .avi to DVD for use with a cheap DVD player

[jpbl68]

I've got a .avi file that I want to burn to DVD to play on my DVD player (Philips 5960). The Philips can play .avi files from a USB flash drive but they tend to stutter during action sequences.

Do I need to convert the file to another format? What software (preferably free) is best for burning DVDs in Leopard 10.5.8?

 

[spinnerlys]

You can try Burn, it gives you the option of burning a video DVD, thus converts the .avi to an MPEG-2 encoded .vob file.

Also use MRoogle to find many threads about this issue.

 

[jpbl68]

Thank you, I'll give Burn a go.

 

[Mal]

iDVD would work fine as well, but it's probably going to take longer to encode and burn than Burn. I did this a few weeks ago, and it was going to take about 2 1/2 hours, but Toast did it in about 45 minutes.

jW