Does converting an .avi file into a DVD-specific file (like .xvid) by...

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...renaming it in a WinRar archive work? Ever since I bought WinRar, I discoverred that you can change a file's format by renaming the extention inside a .rar archive. I want to change a few .avi files into .xvid files to write them on a DVD disc. Using some freeware avi-dvd converter (like AVI2DVD) results in enormous output files (8 gigabytes, or so), but is that what good DVD files are supposed to be like?

I have one-time-write-only discs and don't want to sacrifice one of them for an experiment, so I'd just like to ask whether simply renaming the files' extentions and then burning them onto the disc works?
 
No or more explicitly, not consistently. xvid is one of several codecs which are SOMETIMES used to create avi files, so yes I know cases where it worked, but usually no.

Sometimes dvd files ARE humoungous. Even other files like ESOcasts or Hubblecasts (which are podcasts for fans of the European Space Agency) can be too much for this old computer running the latest testing version of Slackware. However there is a program which allows you to convert and manage the size of your output files called Avidemux which I will swear by, as in "By Avidemux that was a good movie."

Anyhow here it is:

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

There are others out there and several are quite good, however I will only OCCASIONALLY swear by mplayer and never do by the others.
 
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