2 avi files to DVD

Hi
I need to transfer two large avi files to a DVD. I want the dvd to be able to play back on a DVD player, including my computer. If it helps, I have ffmpegx.
Thanks!

I would try using iDVD. To make those two clips play without using a menu, do the following:
1. Create a new iDVD project.
2. Click on the "Map" Button.
3. Drag both clips into the box that says "Drag clips here to play when the DVD is inserted"
If you want to go ahead and create a menu, then by all means, create a menu, and to add the clips to the DVD, just drag them into the iDVD window. Make sure not to drag them into the "Drop Zones". Those are reserved for pictures or small video clips (several seconds long) to add to the design of the theme.
If your clips total between 1 and 2 hours in length, then make sure to go to into iDVD preferences under the iDVD menu, and select "Best Quality". Under the setting "Best Performance", you can only burn up to 1 hour of video to a single-layer DVD.
Hope this Helps
Trevor

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Toast Titanium by Roxio.

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Can someone please recommend a freeware or open source program to burn AVI files to DVD?
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There are a number of ways to turn an avi into a DVD viewable on a normal DVD player. You need to convert, or render, the avi file to a DVD image and then burn it onto the DVD. Here are a few ways to do that:
Using included Apple iLife apps, you can import an avi file into iMovie, passing it on to iDVD for making the DVD, which includes menu's.
Commercial programs Popcorn 2 and Toast 7 from Roxio are good for converting different file types to DVD, and give you more options than the included Apple iLife programs.
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Credit BGreg for:
There are a number of ways to turn an avi into a DVD viewable on a normal DVD player. You need to convert, or render, the avi file to a DVD image and then burn it onto the DVD. Here are a few ways to do that:
Using included Apple iLife apps, you can import an avi file into iMovie, passing it on to iDVD for making the DVD, which includes menu's.
Commercial programs Popcorn 2 and Toast 7 from Roxio are good for converting different file types to DVD, and give you more options than the included Apple iLife programs.
You can use programs like MPEG streamclip, truly the video Swiss army knife for video stream conversion, and DVD imager to burn the image. Both are available through http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx
When you burn your DVD, using quality DVD's will maximize the chances that your DVD player will play them (I tend to use TDK when available on sale). Unless you have a pretty new external DVD player, you should probably stick with DVD-R or DVD+R disks. DVD-RW probably won't work in older DVD players. I've used both -R and +R's successfully.
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Right now my main priority is creating individual DVD's of each of my tapes that I have previously captured via WinDV on an XP system. Those tapes are stored, each clip separately, via AVI files on external hard disks.
Now I would like to, as quickly as possible, use either version of iMovie to burn a DVD that simply includes all the clips from a given tape capture. The plan is that these will be simply playable versions (a playable backup, if you will) of all the clips on each tape - I'll come back later and do edits to create "finished" DVD's.
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Any suggestions as to the most efficient and quickest way to create the DVD's?
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
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I might be able to help...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2091550&#2091550
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ffmpegx allows more configurability but is also, therefore, a little more complicated. In my experience the greatest problem you're likely to face is losing sync between the audio and video, though this is correctable with ffmpegx, if a little convoluted.

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