Burning .avi file - volume stops?

I am using iDVD 08 to burn a large .avi file with .mp3 sound. The file plays perfectly in Quicktime on my Mac, but when I burn it with iDVD (Professional Quality) it plays fine for about 5 minutes but after that the audio stops for some reason. I still get the video playing but the audio gives out, is this some bug in iDVD or is something else wrong?
Thanks!

Try the following basic trouble shooting steps that are mentioned on many posts.
Save as a disk image
Burn disk image using Disk Utility at a slower speed (2x or 4x)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
Use DVD-R (not +/-RW or +R)
Use Maxcell or Verbatim disks
Hope that helps
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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?
Thanks in advance for any help!

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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Burning .avi files

I have an iBook G4 with a that will burn CDs and view DVDs. I've been burning .avi files onto regular CDs, but have a few .avi files that are too big for such discs. Can I burn them on the blank DVDs I see for sale alongside the blank CDs? Or do the discs come formatted in such a way that I can't use them that way, even though I don't want to burn DVD files?

Or you can use the terminal split command. Here are the instructions I COPIED from some other guy on it's site. I've tried it, it works and it's not complicated.
Say you just used forty two to rip a DVD to a 1.1GB AVI file and want to split it up so you can fit it on two CD's. Just fire up the terminal and run split. Here's what it would look like if you wanted to make it fill the first 700mb CD completely and then have a 400mb file for the second CD. % split -b 690m bigsupertroopers.avi supertroopers
The -b option is for bytes and the 690m tells split to break the files into no larger than 690mb files.
This will create two files called supertroopersaa and supertroopersab. If you didn't add the supertroopers on the end of the command you'd have two files named xaa and xab.
To join the files back together, just use the cat command. To join the files in this example, type % cat supertroopersaa supertroopersab > supertroopers.avi
This joins the two files with the > output and creates a filename that follows the > . If you have more than two files or you just don't want to type each split file then you can use wild cards to make it easier. For example, you could just type % cat supertroopers?? > supertroopers.avi and it will join the files just like the above cat command.
You'll then have a file identical to the original bigsupertroopers.avi only now it's called supertroopers.avi or whatever you called it.
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DVD Burning. avi. file

I have an avi. file. Can this be burnt straight to a DVD (using Disk Utility) to be played on my home DVD player or does it have to be converted to another file before burning please?

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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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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Audio on .AVI Files Suddenly Stops Working

I've started capturing some of my game playing using MSI Afterburner. Things have been going great over the last week. I would record a session, bring it into Premiere Pro CS5, edit the video, and export it with ease. (After a couple days of fiddling around)
Fast forward to today and I do my same steps, except now when I add a captured video the audio wont play in the source, nor will it play in the sequence. In fact, the audio channel in the sequence doesnt even show up. The audio levels dont even move.
I can add exported media from previously finished videos and the audio works fine. I can record my own vocals and the audio works fine. When I load up past projects, after re-connecting the media, I get the message, "Audio does not match the connected media's format."
Here is what the file properties look like.
Here is what my Premiere layout looks like with the audio channel not being recongnized. (Its kinda messy because I've been reorganized things to see if different things work + only using one monitor.)
What I've tried:
1. Messing around with my Audio preferences in Premiere Pro CS5 and Windows 7 64-bit control panel.
2. Updating my audio drivers
3. Re-installing Premiere Pro CS5
4. Changing the audio tracks to mono,stereo, and 5.1 - still nothing showed up.
What happened before this started occuring:
This weekened I picked up a new external HDD to store the video captures on. During this time I organized other hard drivers, but nothing on my main system install/Adobe install drive. I deleted some unknown files on a drive that wasnt used anymore. A part of me is worried I deleted some stray audio/video codecs that Premiere Pro CS5 might have been using to play these files. Is that even possible? Would that matter?
Right now im re-installing Afterburner.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,

The first two things that I would consider would be:
Upon Import, did you allow PrPro time to fully Conform the Audio? See this article for more detail: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/726693?tstart=0
Check that the Export settings in your video screen-cap program have not changed, such as Multiplexing = OFF, or perhaps the Export setting for the Audio have been altered.
Good luck,
Hunt

Quicktime upgrade stopped avi files playing.

Hi everyone.
Having upgraded to Quicktime 7.1.2, I've noticed certain types of AVI files have stopped working - as in, Quicktime "quits unexpectedly".
Has anyone else experienced this or managed to fix it?
Thanks.

Hi, shropshire_massiv.
Are these AVI files that previously opened in QuickTime or new AVI files?
AVI files are strange animals. It is a "container" format, but the actual CODECs used for the audio and video can vary widely and a file still be considered AVI. When QuickTime cannot play an AVI file, it is usually because of one of the CODECs in which the audio or video is encoded is not one supported by QuickTime.
For complete information about viewing AVIs and DivX files on Mac OS X, including converting such to QuickTime, see my "Playing AVIs and DivX Files" FAQ.
Good luck!
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Putting .avi files onto DVD

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this question (and I can't seem to find any other threads about it), but I have a bunch of TV Shows in .avi format on my computer. I'd like to be able to place them on a DVD where I can simply watch them on my TV or through a DVD drive. Is there a way to do that with iDVD or is it iMovie that I need? Thanks for any help!

I might be able to help...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2091550&#2091550
a post discussing playing .avi files. Download the divx component to enable Quicktime to play majority of .avi files. Anything that Quicktime still can't play can be played in VLC.
I had 3 .avi movies, one widescreen, and couldn't burn them in iDVD. They previewed, tho, so I converted the widescreen into .mov using Quicktime (Pro only?). Quality was still good. Without converting the other 2 .avi files, I easily burned all 3 (1 .mov and 2 .avi) using iDVD.
My theory is that iDVD can burn .avi files, just as long as 1)they play perfectly in Quicktime and 2)at least one .mov file is included in the burning.
But I've no idea why this worked, and it was the only time I tried it, so it might not work. Although the 3 .avi files were exact same format (DivX 6.0)
You can use an iPod converter, like iSquint, to convert any .avi file into iPod format, which obviously plays in quicktime. Just make sure H.264 is unchecked, since it degrades quality for TV viewing.
oh yeah, iDVD burning and Quicktime converting takes really long! I had to leave my iMac on overnight once for each.
Hope this helped
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Avi files not burning to DVD

I have been exporting windows avi files from premiere cs3 to the desktop, then importing them as either assests or timelines in encore cs3. It plays fine when i preview it, but when i try to burn it to DVD, once it has finished 'transcoding', and begins to write the DVD, without fail, it finds an error in one of the timelines and stops. It says 'internal software error, line (something)'. Anyway, i keep having to go back to encore cs2 as i cant get cs3 to burn to a dvd.
If anyone can help me out at all, or has any ideas it would be much appreciated.
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To Burn Error Proof DVDs (Well, close to error proof!)
Use the SLOWEST possible burn option your burner will allow in Encore, since it is much better to take a bit more time burning the disc than it is to burn "fast" and have a disc that won't play
Set the VIDEO portion of the transcoding options to a Maximum of 7,000 so your burned disc will have a better chance at playing in desktop players (which support burned discs, if at all, only as an "after thought" of the DVD specification)
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i would like to burn dvds..does anyone know a good safe easy to use converter/burning download to allow me to change mp4 /avi files to dvd so i can burn them on a disc that will play in all or most dvd players..also is it possible to upload store boughten dvds/bluerays to my macbook..if so does anyone know how one would do that ? im just getting used to this mac and i do love it but alas i am comp stupid hahaha...thank you

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I get the error message in QuickTime "operation stopped the operation is not supported for this media" most times when I try and export an .AVI file as something else (.m4v). I have not touched the file in any way (no trimming, clipping or other editing)

I get the error message in QuickTime "operation stopped the operation is not supported for this media" most times when I try and export an .AVI file as something else (e.g. .m4v). I have not touched the file in any way (no trimming, clipping or other editing), all I want QuickTime to do is export the file in a compressed format. Bizzarely, if I shutdown and open QuickTime many times I can occasionally export a clip as another format (maybe one in 10 times). I have seen that other users have had a similar problem after clipping files in QuickTime but this seems to be a slightly different bug in that all I do is open the file and then try and export the file as is - either way, this is a very annoying bug

@Z_B-B, thank you for taking the time to respond to my cry for help. However, the link you supplied does not address the problem: I am not trying to export from Final Cut Pro to QuickTime, I am trying to export from QuickTime to the rest of the world (like people's iPhones and Ipads) in .m4v format (so I am not emailing my freinds such huge files).
If I were to spend hundreds of Dollars on a copy of Final Pro I could export directly from there and not have to bother with QuickTime, but I do not take enough video clips to justify the cost. I must say that I never had any of these problems before I decided to switch from Snow Leopard to Mountai Lion.

Hi, my mac has stopped playing some avi files (that used to work). I can see the video. Does anyone know why and what i can do? My version of quicktime is 7.6.9.

Hi i have avi files saved in iphoto that i used to be able to play through quicktime. However in the last few weeks i cannot play many of these files. I can see the videos and click on them but nothing happens (i have version 7.6.9 of quicktime). Does anyone know why this has happened and what i can do about this?
Thanks.

What do you mean by what audio/video formats are involved? These are all files from several digital cameras.
As previously stated, AVI is a file container. It is somewhat old and its originator, Microsoft, dropped official support of it over a decade ago. However, it remains popular with PC users since almost any valid audio and/or video compression format can be stuffed to the file which synchronizes the content by interleaving the individual audio and video frames. The compression format is the specific manner in which the audio and video data are encoded as it is placed in the AVI container. You can find the compression format by inspecting the file in the Finder "Info" window, or in the "Inspector" window of the QT player (or other media player) if the file can be opened.
For instance, one popular compression combination would be to place DivX encoded video and MP3 audio in an AVI file container. However, neither DivX nor MP3 is natively supported by the QT player. (Although iTunes will natively support the MP3 audio.) Therefore, people who wish to play such files in the QT 7 Player would normally install either the DivX component or Perian but not both. Either installation will independently play such files in the QT Player, but if both are installed, the file will usually stop working since these two codecs can create a playback conflict.
However, the AVI container could just as easily contain DV along with DV audio. In this case, the file should play correctly in QT since this compression format is natively supported by the basic component configuration that comes in every current OS installation. Therefore, if such files suddenly stopped playing, this could be an indication that a component has been moved or deleted or that your system or QT embedded structure has become corrupted.

How to burn 23 AVI files onto DVD?

I am trying to figure out how to make a DVD of a tv show season which has 23 episodes for my kids.
How can I make a DVD with all these?
Do i have to convert them first or create a project and drag the AVI files in?
Thanks
Patrick

Hi RIPNHL2005
Welcome to apple discussions. If you find that the avi file/s will not work within iDvd directly (and some will not since avi is simply a container format) then the best way I find is to first convert them with an app like Mpeg streamclip. There are at least two web locations where you can download this freeware and they are shown below.
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
Assuming your episodes do not exceed 120 mins. per single layer dvd (or about twice that for dual layer media) then you can use iDvd thereafter.
However I do have an alternate suggestion also. I use software from Elgato / EyeTV3 in combination with EyeTV products to capture directly to my Hdd and then I can use Toast to burn them to Dvd thereafter. Works rather well and especially if I need to exceed 120 mins per dvd. Toast offers a fit to dvd option that you can't find within iDvd.
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How can I break .avi files into parts so I can burn them onto DVDs...

...and the files will fit? I have asked this before on another discussions board unsuccessfully.
Each .avi file is only 250 - 350mb each. So I should be able to fit two .avi files on one 700MB DVD disk. But have tried to use Roxio Toast 6.0 before, but when I try to burn a file onto a DVD a message comes up saying " There's not enough free space on this disk: 2063612 sectors (3.9 GB) are needed, 359849 sectors (702.9 MB) are available."
But I don't understand this because the actual file that I want to copy onto a DVD is actually only 250 - 350 MB (each). So what I can I do? Please help!
P.S. I have only used Roxio Toast 6.0 to burn something successfully once before, but that was a .bin file and was around 700MB.

In iMovie you create a project and then after that you work on the video files. Files are always grey/faded in a Save As dialogue box.
Try this:
Create a new project, just leave it as My Great Movie. Select a location and click "Create".
File menu > Import
Select the file(s).
If it's a large file then go and make a cup of tea.
Select the clip
Move the Playhead Marker to where you need to split the clip.
Press Apple - T (or go Edit menu > Split Video Clip at Playhead .
Drag the resulting clips to the timeline.
Choose <i|>File menu > Export
Either export as Quicktime or straight to iDVD.
Once you're done delete "My Great Movie" project.
cheers
mrtotes
EDIT: Some of the exact terms will differ between iMovie versions. I'm using iMovie HD 6.0.3 which is the final version that will ever work on the iMac G4.

AVI files stops before the end, Zen

I recently bought a 6G Zen player and pretty happy about it. I updated the firmware weeks ago, everything is fine. I found proper softwares to convert FLV files to AVI. The final AVI file is fine, sound is synchronized, the whole file is there.
My problem is that when I transfer the file to the Zen, or to an SD card, the video doesn't play until the end. It stops and the player returns to the video list menu. Sometimes 5 seconds before the end, sometimes 30 seconds, the time is not always the same. On the PC, the file was playing correctly.
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You probably have end actions on the chapter points. Remove them the end actions from the chapter markers, and see if that fixes it.

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