Posted by William A. T. Clark on 05/05/06 18:30

In article <e3fp5v$kns$1@e250.ripco.com>,
Bruce Esquibel <bje@e4500.ripco.com> wrote:

> William A. T. Clark <clark.31@nospamosu.edu> wrote:
> :>
> :> >> I have an .avi file, that is now a DivX movie file, of an event that I
> :> >> would like to convert to a DVD that will play on any DVD player, not
> :> >> just those that can handle DivX format.
>
> : Thanks for the suggestions, but the are Windows apps. I am working on a
> : G5 iMac.
>
>
> Just get Toast and screw the apple supplied software.
>
> Whatever version Toast is up to now can do a lot of conversions from
> different formats into standard dvd format. It also seems to have Popcorn
> built in, where if the dropped avi's are larger than what normally can be
> burned will auto-compress them. It also can generate menus and has other
> tricks that make it a decent swiss-army-knife kind of application.
>
> -bruce
> bje@ripco.com

Yes, I tried Toast 7, but it spent a long time grinding through the
conversion (it was quite a large file), but at the final stage it just
spat it out and gave an error message.

William Clark

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