DVD burning

[ajpattison]

I am trying to put some videos in .avi format onto DVD so they can be watched on a normal DVD player. the problem I am having is that although each of the avi files is only about 1GB, when they are converted into DVD format, thy expand to about 10GB, so i can't get them on a standard 4.7gb disc!

is there any software to compress the files to fit? Is any of it available free?

[HillyHugger]

Don't know what your using to convert the files . Personally I use this

http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_ to_dvd

Avi. files of 700MB convert to 2.something GB