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how do i convert from avi to DVD

Carsten

Well, a DVD isn't just a container format burned to an arbitrary media such as AVI. It's a rather complex set of files with an own file-system. You need to use a special application, which can create movie-DVDs to burn an AVI to a DVD. Some applications might handle the AVI container directly, otherwise you should convert it to a MPEG-PS-container with VLC. That's the only step which can be done by VLC. It can neither burn DVDs nor disk-images which could be burned to a DVD.

See: http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLCSout

It describes the formats needed, has a sample vlc command line to do the initial step, suggests ISO generation/burning tools (for Windows -- hopefully other OS' will be added soon)