Burn AVI File to DVD

If you have AVI format file and want to burn it to a DVD disc, you don't know what to do. This page will tell you the answer by offering a great software and the detailed step by step guide.

We all know that the abbreviation AVI stands for "Audio Video Interlaced". This video format was created by Microsoft, which was introduced along with Windows 3.1. AVI, the proprietary format of Microsoft's "Video for Windows" application, merely provides a framework for various compression algorithms such as Cinepak, Intel Indeo, Microsoft Video 1, Clear Video or IVI.

AVI is a file format, like MP3 or JPG. But unlike these formats, AVI is a container format, meaning it can contain video audio compressed using many different combinations of codecs. So while MP3 and JPG can only contain a certain kind of compression (MPEG Audio Layer 3 and JPEG), AVI can contain many different kinds of compression (e.g. DivX video + WMA audio or Indeo video + PCM audio), as long as a codec is available for encoding/decoding. AVI all look the same on the "outside", but on the "inside", they may be completely different. There is no such thing as a "normal" thing, and is probably the most common video format around (although its popularity wavered a few years ago, but has since come back with a vengeance due to the emergence of DivX).

Sometimes it is necessary to convert AVI to DVD to be burned to a disk. However, what is DVD? Are there some features?

DVD, introduced in 1996, was originally known as Digital Video Disc but soon became known as Digital Versatile Disc. It is the next generation of optical disc storage technology. which shares the same overall dimensions of a CD, but have significantly higher capacities - holding from 4 to 28 times as much data. Single sided DVDs can store 4.7GB for single layer and 8.5GB for dual-layer disks. Double sided DVDs can store 9.4GB for single layer and 17GB for dual-layer disks.

Having know this, we go to the core of today's topic: How to burn AVI to DVD?

Super DVD Creator has AVI to DVD VOB converter and DVD burner together in it, making your work extremely easy and simple.

Step 1.Download Super DVD Creator, install and run it. The main interface will display.
Step 2. Convert AVI format file to DVD VOB format file.

<1>. Click "Mpeg File Converter" on the main interface, a window of "Select the output format" will appear.

<2>. Select "DVD disk", click "OK" button. The "Mpeg File Converter" window comes out.

<3>. Click the "+" button at the bottom of the window to get the AVI file to be converted. Highlight the file, and click the rightmost button; the "Start" conversion window appears on which you're also allowed to do some settings. e.g. Working Folder, Output NTSC/PAL, Conversion Engine; click "Start" to begin conversion.

<4>. Now, you get the DVD VOB file from your AVI file.
Step 3. Burn the generated DVD VOB file to DVD disc.

<1>. Back to the main interface, click "Video Disc Burn", and also select "DVD Disc" on the popped up window; click "OK". The "Video Disc Burn" window comes out.

<2>. Click the "+" button at the bottom of the window to get the generated file to be burned.

<3>. Insert a writable disc.

<4>. Highlight the file; click the rightmost burn button at the bottom of the window. Click "Start" on the popped up "Video Disc Creator" window to burn a disc, and you're allowed to do some settings on it.

<5>. Now, you get your DVD disc.