Burning avi file on a DVD

Any body have the solution for this error went burning a avi.
Using Toast Titanium 10.5
Interface error: 5. The connection is not stable.
:thx:

Using Toast Titanium 10.5
Interface error: 5. The connection is not stable.
This is apparently a known issue with Toast and some of the newer Macs.
http://forums.support.roxio.com/lofiversion/index.php/t59893.html
I don't have a solution other that to say that users who report the problem mention that burning to external drives or with different programs like DVDRemaster have reported success.
Are you just trying to copy the file to a DVD or re-author it for DVD player playback?
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Burning AVI files to DVD

Can someone please recommend a freeware or open source program to burn AVI files to DVD?
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Credit BGreg for:
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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
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AVI is a video codec and you cannot use disk utility to put this onto a DVD disk as a stand alone playable movie, however there are a few things you can do. Some unbranded and branded DVD players now play loads of different format video files such as AVI and Divx does yours do this, you may have to only drag the avi file to a DVD disk and just copy it. I use leopard and i just drag the AVI file to iDvd and this works ok for me, you have a dual opp system so OSX will do this for you.
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Is it possible to make Front Row read several movie files in a single DVD?
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