Problems when burning .avi to DVD

[J Boss]

OK, so first of all I'd like to admit that I'm a completely new Mac user.

I'm having some problems with burning avi's to DVD. I have all the codecs and the files play in Quicktime. I'm trying to burn them using iDVD and all the previews work just fine, it burns easily, but then when I stick the finished DVD back into the drive on my Macbook the video just comes up as a blank green screen.

Am I doing something wrong or should I perhaps try using Toast or something?

 

[BlueRevolution]

Yeah, I'd give Toast a try. If you're trying to play in your DVD player, you might want to check if it supports DivX/Xvid/H.264 playback, which would save you a bunch of work.

 

[Hestian]

HI,

I use the program BURN from Sourceforge--I have used this program for 4 months now to burn avi formatted files on to both R & RW DVD's.---Toast works great but I found it a little too complicated for what I needed. Each 700mb takes approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds each with BURN---I can get up to 6 files at 700mb each on 1 dvd--Hope this helps

 

[BlueRevolution]

As I mentioned, that requires a player that supports data disks.

 

[J Boss]

Yeah, I'd give Toast a try. If you're trying to play in your DVD player, you might want to check if it supports DivX/Xvid/H.264 playback, which would save you a bunch of work.

Thanks. I'll give Toast a try. But as I said the DVD won't even playback when I try to play it on my Macbook.

I've burned avi's to DVD before on my old Windows PC and they played just fine in both my DVD player and my PS3, so I assume there should be no problem in that regard.

 

[JoMomma]

I apologize if you tried this already. It sounds like a stupid answer, but it evaded me for quite a while.

When I got the green screen, I clicked on "view" and selected "fit to screen." That gave me the play, pause, etc. controls, and I was able to view the video.

Jo