Burn .Avi file/files to be played on a standard DVD player

[Rallepower]

I'm planning to give away some clips to my grandfather and grandmother for Christmas and i need some help. They are in .Avi format (if there is a problem with multiple files i can just merge them i guess). I need them to be playable in a regular DVD player since they don't own a computer or anything. Can you recommend some programs and maybe give me a little help?

Help me save Christmas ;)

[ApertureFan]

If I'm not mistaken, you need a blank DVD-R disc and some sort of disc burning software. I'm going to assume you have a decent Windows computer that came installed with this. Pop the blank disc into the disc drive, go to Start, then search "DVD" and you should see a program called "DVD Maker." Open that. It should open a menu or something of the sort. Click "Add Items" and just select your files, click next, select your menu type, click burn, and wait. I'm not sure how it will work with multiple .avi files, but this method works with one .avi file. So if this doesn't work, just try splicing together all the clips into one.

[Riley]

BurnAware free is pretty decent, it doesn't look nice menu wise on the DVD player but burning the disks it can burn 4gb in 2 - 5 minuets, also it depends on the dvd writer you have.

[Jaehead]

If you have Windows 7 just use the program that comes with it

it's called Windows DVD Maker, I believe

[Emtu]

I haven't had a problem with Avi2DVD - [url]http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.php[/url]
Its very feature rich, including PAL>NTSC and NTSC>PAL conversion, lots of different types of files supported, multiple subtitles and audio streams, and it can export the file as an ISO as well as just regular video_ts/audio_ts folders.

[MetricMoose]

If you don't have Windows 7 or don't want to use the DVD Maker program that comes with it; DVDFlick is nice. It allows you to create a menu, it's free and includes a game of Tetris to play while you wait for the disk to burn (Can burn to a disk or create an ISO file).

[Shadaez]

FYI .avi isn't a format, it's a container.

[kmlkmljkl]

Astroburn is a good program, also, you might want to convert it to mpeg or wmv