hmmm i dont think you can just change file names and make it work.. There are some commands in .ifo and .buf. so renaming the files alone will not work..

Well surprise surprise, it worked. Selected NTSC and 4:3 ratio and sure enough, have one folder now instead of 2 for a stubborn movie that always encoded to 2 folders. Problem is now it\'s 4.56 GB so I don\'t know if it will fit on a DVD, but that\'s fine. At least now it looks like the 2 folder problem has been fixed. I\'ll try the rest of my difficult conversion .avi\'s and post the results.

Do nothing
the simplest solution is this: do not double click on the file when you browse for it
if you have to convert several files to make a DVD, make sure to hold CNTL then click on each file in sequence
I did have the same problem and it took me a while to figure out, and this works quite well

Same problem here.

One thing that has worked is renaming the 2nd, and sometimes even 3rd and 4th (!) folder files in ascending sequence so I can move them all to one folder in order, and yes all these files are under the 4300 cap. Then creating new .ifo and .bup using vobedit and ifoedit. Needless to say this is a huge pain in the... to do. The resulting files work on my pc when I click the ifo to play. I haven't attempted a dvd burn, but I assume they would work ok on a stand alone also.

I'll have to try some of the suggestions here. Setting Auto for the format seems the most common cause of the multiple folders for me. OR if I set NTSC to try to get a conversion from a file that comes up PAL as auto format (is this even possible to do? I've yet to get a single folder doing this).

Very aggravating for sure. At least winavi is fast so you don't have to wait hours to find out it screwed up.

I am using winavi version 7.1 presently and I have two avi (divx) files with each 700mb size and subtitle files which I would like to convert and burn into DVD.

My question is why the vob files being created are not consistent.  Sometimes three or four vob files are being created or even up to five vob files and sometimes it only contain part of the movie when I played back using the POWERDVD. Has it got to do with the computer disk space?

For your info, my setting of the WINAVI is as follows:

Selected Constant Video Size/1 disk/4300mb file size
Preference: By quality
Target Format: Auto
Aspect Ratio: Auto
Output Setting: Set Chapters/150 per second
Audio Bitrate: 192000


The other problem is after burning the converted files to DVD-R or DVD+R using NERO, the picture quality has pixel problem and sometimes the picture freezes. Does anyone encounter this problem? With all these problems, I think I should try out other another converter to convert my files. Has anyone use CUCUSOFT converter before and I would appreciate your opinion on this converter.

BTW, it is advisable to convert three or four avi (700mb size) files into 1 DVD.

hi Nesh,
Did you do the conversion like this?
First, click the "DVD" button on the main interface of the program, and then highlight your two avi files under a select file window poped up,... and then click "Ok" to batch convert them...