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Can .avi files be burned to a dvd?

Asked by meagan (4675points) August 9th, 2011

I’ve been trying to burn .avi videos to a DVD, but every time I put them in the DVD it says that my DVD may not have the playback feature. I’m using iDVD to burn these files on a memorex DVD+R blank dvd.

How do I fix this problem?

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Rarebear's avatar

Do it from a program like Nero or something like that (I don’t know a Mac equivalent). If you want to play it in a DVD player you usually can’t just burn the file like a data vile, but you need to burn a DVD image onto the disc.

jrpowell's avatar

iDVD doesn’t like avi containers. Convert it to mp4 with Handbrake first.

You can also try using Burn without converting first. My DVD player will read about 90% of the avi files I toss at it using Burn and simply burning them as data.

blueiiznh's avatar

I do it all the time with Nero. There are other recode programs out there for free too.

If you simply make a Data DVD, the player has to be compatible to play the files on it.
If you recode the .avi, you can then play it on any DVD player and even create chapters to various files or logical breaks within the avi.
The later will burn it into the traditional .vob files for play on your DVD player like any traditional DVD movie.

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