Finally! I have found an easy, no fuss method for converting AVI videos to DVD. The Google search “convert avi dvd best” led me to this guide over at afterdawn.com which uses the Avi2DVD program. It’s just a GUI for other freeware command line tools, but one that makes sense. I did a video 1h 46m long today and it took about 2 hours on my P4-HT desktop machine. The original was 656×352 resolution. The quality after 2-pass encoding was not too shabby either, and the audio was perfectly synced. It supports batch processing too.
Not that I’ll be using this much since the 360 plays most AVI files.
