Burning DVD Videos

[Jim]

On 05/20/2010 01:18 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 12:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
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>> On 05/20/2010 12:23 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:01 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>
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>>>> I have the Pacific 10 Mini Series Videos 1 hr each, if I burn all 10 on
>>>> a DL_DVD I can play each video on my Computer, but !  If I put the DVD
>>>> in a CD/DVD Player to play videos on a TV will the player allow me to
>>>> play each individual I hr. Video or how would I Burn them on a DVD to
>>>> play on the CD-DVD Player ?
>>>>
>>>> They are *.avi videos
>>>>
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>>> Think about it: does your player work with .avi files? Most modern ones
>>> do. If so, just create a "Data DVD" (e.g. using K3B) with the files on
>>> it. If not, you're out of luck.
>>>
>>>
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>> Well, you are only out of luck if you don't want to do the work to get
>> the *.avi files into the format, with menus, to play on a "standard" DVD
>> player.
>>
>> I've done that a long time ago....forget the steps that I went
>> through...but I think it involved converting the *.avi files to *.mpg
>> and then using dvdauthor.  I'm sure a google would lead to solutions....
>>      
> I've done it with devede. Not too difficult and it works pretty well,
> but of course the resulting files are much larger than the .avi sources.
> That's why he's out of luck if he wants to get a whole series onto one
> DVD as he said.
>
> poc
>
>    
I can get the whole series on a DL-DVD, right around 6gb.