Hmm, I had dlded a concert and created a DVD with it (a movie dvd) and it played nice and all (even in my PS2) but the format was already .mpeg. I can't remember which .mpeg, but so you know, .mpeg (II I think) is the format of DVD movies. .avi is a DivX format. In the latter, a fully movie of decent quality would be of around 650 to 750 Megs (more like 700 to 780M). You won't find many in .mpeg as they are larger.
And no sweat about the help.

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