AVI files with iDVD??

does anyone know how to make a 45min long avi file work with iDVD? i want to burn them to a watchable DVD, thanks

does anyone know how to make a 45min long avi file
work with iDVD? i want to burn them to a watchable
DVD, thanks
There are many different CODECS used to compress the video in .AVI files - some are Mac QT compatable - some are not.
I have a small digital movie camera that produces .AVI files compresed in DivX format. Since upgrading to Mac OS 10.4 and QuickTime 7, the ONLY way I have found to use these files in iMovie/iDVD is to convert them to DV stream files using ffmpegX at http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
To find out the form of video compression used in your .AVI files, open one in QuickTime and select Window>Show Movie Info. What video format is shown?

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