# avi to dvd conversion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avi-to-dvd-conversion/562533>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avi-to-dvd-conversion/562533 "2010-12-01T12:53:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avi-to-dvd-conversion/562533/41 "2010-12-02T21:09:02Z")

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> [@x-ray\_vision](#):
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> You meant Avi2Dvd, not ConvertXtoDVD, right?

:smack: Yes. My head has been so far up my butt lately, I’m winking at my small intestine.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avi-to-dvd-conversion/562533/42 "2010-12-03T06:14:24Z")

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Not being able to have periods (.) or hyphens (-) in the filename or path is a very weird restriction, and an easy one to fix (move the file before converting). I suspect the program is not being actively developed.

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**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avi-to-dvd-conversion/562533/43 "2010-12-03T13:17:52Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Not being able to have periods (.) or hyphens (-) in the filename or path is a very weird restriction, and an easy one to fix (move the file before converting). I suspect the program is not being actively developed.

This is probably a problem for me, as my file name has periods in it. Before testing this, though, I downloaded DVDflick, and that seemed to do the trick.. But I downloaded almost all of the suggested programs, and will be going back to a couple of them to see if I can get them to work.

The user interface on DVDflick could be better. There were a couple of programs with excellent user interfaces, and the recommended free studio seems to have great potential for any conversion I could possibly need, however this one didn’t work either for me. I have no idea why.

So, thank you all for the great suggestions. DVDflick isn’t bad, so I;ll keep that one around. When I get some time, I’ll be deleting most of the other programs when time permits. For a couple of the programs that looked promising, I’ll re-try when I can. I’ll make sure to rename the avi file to something more friendly.

Cheers

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