Burning movies (.avi) to dvd

well what i need to do is burn a .avi movie onto a dvd so that i can watch it on my dvd player in my livingroom. i asume i need a conversion program to convert the .avi to some format of which i dunno. then what do i need to burn the movie onto a viewable dvd?

Is this a divx .avi?
If so, do you have the divx codec installed?
http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
You might also check out divx doctor, which will "fix" or convert the file to a .mov which can be easily used in idvd.

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