AVI to DVD Converter
While watching AVI files on your PC would suffice for short, low quality clips and miscellaneous videos, no PC that isn’t priced on the highest end of the tag price scale will ever compare to the experience of watching DVDs on a home theater system. Unfortunately, majority of DVD players these days cannot play AVI files that are simply burned on a blank CD or DVD. In order to play AVI videos on your DVD player (or even other DVD-capable game consoles), you need an AVI to DVD Converter software that will format Audio Video Interleave (AVI) videos into something that can be read by standard DVD players.
An AVI to DVD Converter is needed because DVD players, while able to “read” any CD or DVD disc burned from the PC, will only play movies that are converted to the DVD-Video format, which consists of an MPEG-2 video with a resolution of 720 x 480px for NTSC and 720 x 576px for PAL running at 29.97 and 25 Frames Per Second, consecutively. AVI to DVD converters will also convert the movie’s audio, since DVD players will only acknowledge AC-3 and DTS audio formats.
Bear in mind that some freeware AVI to DVD converters will only convert the video and its audio to a DVD-playable format, but will not create a burnable DVD disc, which uses a special structure of folders where audio, video, subtitles and other data are separately located. If you want to create a DVD disc can be readily played on your DVD player, you need to use one of the higher end AVI to DVD converters or a commercial DVD Authoring program.