Comments on: Create home DVDs using Windows 7’s DVD Maker

By: Windows 7 – How to burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs

Windows 7 – How to burn CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:43:07 +0000

[...] 7 comes with it’s own Explorer integrated CD/DVD burner. We have shown you before how to create DVD movies using Windows 7 movie maker, but this time we will look at it’s capability to burn generic files. Creating data discs in [...]

By: lextacy

lextacy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:29:58 +0000

Yea it might work with uncompressed .avi true. But compressed dvix and xvid codec versions of .avi will not.

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:40:05 +0000

It does support AVI’s, in fact I’m burning a AVI to DVD right now, but Windows DVD Maker has it’s problems, it’s slow to encode, and its unstable. Also it eats up 99% of your CPU, and there’s now way to change it, I tried lowering the priority with no luck, so I had to tell it to use only 1 cpu instead of both.

By: Jaxboy32

Jaxboy32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:45:31 +0000

I think you will find that Windows 7’s Windows DVD Maker does support AVI files, but just not MP4 files like you said. I have used AVI files with Windows 7’s Windows DVD Maker and it all worked fine.