mav88 I use to use this little "all in one" program called
acp and it would convert avi to vcd. I burned allot of VCD's to watch movies on my DVD player using it. You also need a program called TMPGEnc
http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html that is used in conjunction with acp. Whats nice about acp is it is basicly automated in that you load the avi into acp and set the audio bitrate, the template and press the start button and thats about it. It converts the audio and video. Whats also nice is you use
TMPGEnc Templates that can burn up to 360 minutes onto a single CD, however your quality decreases with more minutes you try to compress on a single CD. Anyway after you download a template you install into your TMPGEnc directory and load it along with your avi and your set. I haven't used it for awhile and I'm not sure how practical it is anymore, but it was fun to mess with, and you don't need to be a brainiac to use it in that you don't need to know about scripts etc,.
You can find out more about acp here. It is in an archived section at this site. You won't find out much about this program anywhere else that I'm aware of:
http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2021 The problem with acp is the guy who developed it is not updating the program anymore. (Thats the bad part)