converting a tv show of multip avi episodes to 1 dvd

at the risk of being a newbite, I did a search but was unable to find a perfectly clear answer. I have a tv show, season 1, episodes 1-7. They are all .avi files and I would like to burn them onto a dvd as 1 file. Can someone point me in the direction of a guide or give me the steps and programs I would need to take to get 7 avi episodes into 1 burnable dvd file?

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anything?

 

I'm not the best on this but here goes. First, if your avi episodes are 1/2 hour, fine. If they are 1 hour, the quality would be terrible. There are many programs that will join your avi files, some free and some not. Virtualdub is free:http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/14/59/. Easy Video Joiner or Avi Joiner are payware. Then you will need a program to encode your file. Some like TMPGEnc or MainConcept can join your files as they are encoding or after they finish but I would suggest VSOConvertXtoDVD. I don't use it but I tried the prior version, ConverttoDVD, and was impressed with its speed and quality and, also that it encodes, authors and burns. The trial leaves a watermark on the video but you can try it and see what you think. I have only read good comments on it. Otherwise, you will need a separate authoring program and a burning program. Here is a guide for it:http://www.bitburners.com/Guides/DVD_Movie_Backups/VSO_Software_ConvertXtoDVD/. It won't join files but you could also skip joining the files. There would only be a seconds pause between files and the only other difference would be the counter on your standalone resetting to zero at each file.

 

can virtual dub join more than 2 .avi files? Like I have seasons with like 5-10 episodes each

 

I have never used VirtualDub except to create a wav file but step 5 in the guide says you can add as many avi files as you like. Actually, I wondered about this myself. Also, to add and somebody correct me if I'm wrong; I believe I read somewhere that the trial of VSO ConvertXtoDVD runs at 1/2 speed.

 

let see, how about it tmoneysju, you download avicodec, run your file through avicodec so that we can atleast give you more guidence once we see what the properties are that you paste into your next post