Trouble burning avi movies to DVD

im new to the world of apple. i tried burning a movie avi format that was downloaded online. when i tried to drag it to idvd it was showing the progress and "asset embeding" literaly a frame at a time this went on for about 3 hours until i canceled out. i downloaded isquint to convert the file and that has been going for about 2 hours its making progress and going just a little longer than real time. im still unsure what to do after that or if that will even work. If anyone could give me some pointers i would be greatful. or a quicker way to burn full length movies that will be playable on my tv dvd player. THanx
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   super drive

It sounds like something went wrong during the burning of the DVD, and that could be many things. Have you successfully burned a DVD before? You might want to try the iDVD forums to see if they have any hints.
Unfortunately, your 800 MHz G4 is going to be really slow doing video compression. There are some things that you could do like maxing out your memory and upgrading your video card (so that the CPU doesn't have to render your screen along with compressing video) but these still won't make your computer a blazing fast system for video (might not be worth the cost to you). You can also try making sure that you don't do anything else with the computer.
Since it's taking an exceedingly long time to try the compression and view the results, it would probably be advantageous to find a small QuickTime clip on the web and use it in your tests...like some trailers for instance. It's still going to take awhile to render, but at least then you'll get to the point of errors in 4 hours instead of 12 or 28. Once you're successful with a few QuickTime clips, then cut the .AVI clip down to a minute and see if that works. At this point, you'll be able to compare successes and determine where the problem might be.
At the point in the video where you notice the squares, press space to stop, then use the left and right arrow keys to examine frame by frame to see if it's just that your video card is having a problem handling the video when it's running full speed (if it's clear frame by frame, then it'll make a good DVD). I wouldn't change the settings in iSquint yet until we determine if there's a real quality problem.

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