How can I watch a video from my computer in my DVD player? Can't play burnt AVI files

I have a DVD burner and everything, but I am still not able to watch it on my DVD player ( I'm referring to the one I use on my tv). Is it because I'm using the wrong type of DVD disk? DVD-R or DVD+R? Or do I have to convert the files onto another format?? I saved them as .avi files...

You can use freeware DVD Flick. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player.

Supported file container formats: AVI, MPG, MOV, WMV, ASF, FLV, Matroska and MP4.

Supported codecs: MPEG-1/2/4 (XVid, DivX, etc.), Windows Media Audio/Video, MP3, OGG Vorbis, H264, and On2 VP5/6.


Please note that some DVD Player support not only DVD-Video, but also other formats like MPEG-4.
AVI as well as OGM, MKV, MP4, DIVX is just a container. AVI files can have videos encoded with MPEG-4 compatible codec such as XVid and DivX.

DVD Players, that can play MPEG-4 videos, support limited number of containers, video and audio codecs. Besides DivX certified player support only videos encoded with a special profile of DivX, so not every DivX video can be played on a DivX certified player. The same is with other video codecs. Not every feature of XVid video codec is supported.


Also some DVD players don't support DVD+R, DVD-R and/or DVD+RW, DVD-RW. Most newer DVD should support all these discs.


Please read the manual of your DVD player to know the list of supported formats, containers, codecs, DVD discs.