How to burn AVI File

How do I burn an AVI file to a disk that will play on a DVD Player. everytime I try, I get a on screen message(Unknown Disk) The disks I am useing are DVD-R
and burner is a NEC DVD+-R/RW Dual Layer 8x IDE.
The disks play ok on Computer.
any help would be appreciated.

 

numinbah ,
Welcome to the forum. You are going to need to take the .avi file and turn them into Mpeg2-DVD Compliant files for them to be able to be played in a DVD Player. There are guides on this forum and on other forums that will let you do this. For my home movies I use Adobe Premiere and then import the file and edit out what I do not want and then export the file to timeline and then use Nero's NVE to burn it to disk. Premiere is a little pricey but there are other program that can do it for a lot less.
You might start looking here and see if this helps or do a google search on .avi to DVD.
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/convert_avi_to_dvd.cfm

 

Thanks. I will get started on what you suggest straight away I will let you know how I get on

 

I have just thought of something, I suppose Nero ShowTime files are in AVI format or am I Completely wrong.