Is there a way to take a normal avi...

[goldpup]

Wanted to know if i can turn a normal avi into a dvd compliant movie?

[p3distxii]

Easily. I would load the .avi into CCE and then use the mpv and audio file produced in an authoring program.

[goldpup]

everytime i try that when i import the sound to dvd meastro i get an error of invalid sampling rate. what now?

[ErMaC]

If you're asking if you can drop a AVI file onto your DVD itself, no - it must be transcoded to a DVD-compliant MPEG2 video stream and the audio must be in one of the numerous formats acceptable by DVD (PCM, AC3, DTS, and MPEG2 Audio in Europe).

Transcoding the video is easy enough - if you want a free solution grab the TMPGEnc trial and encode using it's DVD template, it works fine. The audio will be the more difficult one. For the easy way, just convert your audio to WAV and then resample it to 48000Hz (DVD-Video's audio is ALWAYS 48000Hz regardless of codec, it changes when you get to DVD-Audio). This WAV file can be imported into your authoring program as Linear PCM Audio. Just make sure the WAV is 16-bit 48000Hz Stereo.