How to Make Your Own DVDs from Almost Any Video File

If you’ve got a lot of AVI videos in your media collection, you might want to be able to play them on your DVD player—or even more likely, give a DVD to a family member to watch. Here’s how to create your own DVDs easily.

For the purposes of this guide we’ll show you how to do it using the freeware DVD Flick utility, or the Windows DVD Maker application bundled into some versions of Windows. Either one will work fine, though Windows DVD Maker will require installing extra codecs to be able to support every type of file.