Someone oil up a padlock please :up:

Quote from Lotesdelere :

You can either:

Burn the AVI file directly to a CD. Most DVD players are now able to read AVI files encoded with DixX/XviD + MP3.
You can use any burning software such as the popular Nero or some freewares like InfraRecorder or CDBurnerXP.

Convert the AVI file to a VCD/SVCD Video CD format and burn it onto a CD.
Once again Nero can do that or have a look at the freeware Avi2Dvd.

Convert the AVI file to a DVD format and burn it onto a DVD.
Freewares which can do that: Avi2Dvd or DVD Flick.
But in this case you obviously need a DVD burner.

Sense at last. Funny how everyone here was trying to sound so clever by recommending the pile of crapware that is nero.

Nero works for me and has done for the past 5 years.

So, ShaaaatAaaap!

Quote from J.B. :

Sense at last. Funny how everyone here was trying to sound so clever by recommending the pile of crapware that is nero.

Agreed. Nero only worked for MP3 CDs for me, nothing else. Even then it didn't work half the time. (Apparently it didn't like 320kbps MP3 files, either..)

I was a nero user for several years but got increasing pissed off wit hit begoming a massive piece of bloatware with little provided to stop me from installing all the extras that came with it. I've recently switched to SilentNight MicroBurner as it's a single exe, about a meg, doesn' need installing, and still burns everything I've asked of it.

Quote from Bob Smith :

And a question that can easily be solved by google in a matter of seconds?

Bob, if you try to perform a search about AVI conversions in google you'll most likely end up with loads of pages advertising for not so cheap useless converters, which are more or less rip-offs of freeware applications.

Best place (for me) for video conversion related stuff and guides: www.doom9.net.

Quote from Albieg :

Bob, if you try to perform a search about AVI conversions in google you'll most likely end up with loads of pages advertising for not so cheap useless converters, which are more or less rip-offs of freeware applications.

You haven't payed attention, have you?
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=630967#post630967

Quote from squidhead :

You haven't payed attention, have you?
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=630967#post630967

I don't know what you mean saying I haven't paid attention. Care enough to explain?
If you cared to look at doom9 you'll see that harjun request is perfectly fulfilled by the docs and links there, with free software. Doom9 is a respectable source that provides what Harjun wants, and more for those who have different (but related) needs and may perform a search in this forum in the future.

As for tech assistance related requests, I'm used to provide the best possible answer without suggesting google if the searches are likely to end up in a pile of junk (just like in this case, and many other popular ones). It's part of my daily job, both for trivial and non-trivial questions. Maybe you didn't perform the search in google yourself. I did it months ago, so I know what I came up with.


I can agree that NeroVision Express does the job pretty easily, but it's far from being the best performer, and version 7 is pure bloatware. Moreover if you have basic editions the DVD authoring plugin isn't included for copyright reasons and you have to purchase it separately, so the only option is burning an SVCD or having the Ultimate (maybe Enterprise) Edition.

Moreover, I'll always suggest free resources whenever possible because doing otherwise would be, ultimately, encouraging piracy or an unneeded expense: Nero isn't free.

On top of that, I'm used to clueless people. Once again, it's part of my job. I can't see why I shouldn't give the most informative, clean answer I can, and that means: I cannot cure lazyness, but I try to help providing respectable sources. In this, I do the best I can.

Edit: and of course I've read that thread you link too, stumbling in not so free junk software too (first link in the thread). That's primarily why I posted the link to Doom9, which is far more informative (and free) than what you provided.

Re-edit: and just to be clear, two out of five of the links appearing in that search page are deemed dubious download sites by SiteAdvisor. I can clearly see you don't use it, but I do, and I always take a look. That's perhaps the best reason for which I seldom suggest google searches: I don't want to put people into trouble.

Quote from Albieg :

I don't know what you mean saying I haven't paid attention. Care enough to explain?
If you cared to look at doom9 you'll see that harjun request is perfectly fulfilled by the docs and links there, with free software. Doom9 is a respectable source that provides what Harjun wants, and more for those who have different (but related) needs and may perform a search in this forum in the future.

As for tech assistance related requests, I'm used to provide the best possible answer without suggesting google if the searches are likely to end up in a pile of junk (just like in this case, and many other popular ones). It's part of my daily job, both for trivial and non-trivial questions. Maybe you didn't perform the search in google yourself. I did it months ago, so I know what I came up with.


I can agree that NeroVision Express does the job pretty easily, but it's far from being the best performer, and version 7 is pure bloatware. Moreover if you have basic editions the DVD authoring plugin isn't included for copyright reasons and you have to purchase it separately, so the only option is burning an SVCD or having the Ultimate (maybe Enterprise) Edition. On top of that, NeroVision Express is far from being the best performer. It may be easy, but it takes ages for transcoding.

Moreover, I'll always suggest free resources whenever possible because doing otherwise would be, ultimately, encouraging piracy or an unneeded expense: Nero isn't free.

On top of that, I'm used to clueless people. Once again, it's part of my job. I can't see why I shouldn't give the most informative, clean answer I can, and that means: I cannot cure lazyness, but I try to help providing respectable sources. In this, I do the best I can.

Edit: and of course I've read that thread you link too, stumbling in not so free junk software too (first link in the thread). That's primarily why I posted the link to Doom9, which is far more informative (and free) than what you provided.

PERSONALLY....i think you just OWNED that noob....

Thank you very much for helping me....i used AVI2DVD

Quote from harjun :

PERSONALLY....i think you just OWNED that noob....

Thank you very much for helping me....i used AVI2DVD

That's lame, Harjun. Squidhead knows his stuff about video. I know my stuff about tech assistance, security and user attitude. Just don't let me point to the posts that made me desist from doing tech assistance here, they would be embarassing. I may help you but if you have to settle scores, do it on your own. I just explained.