ok im tryin to figure out how to convert avi to dvd, im using transcode and im so far following the tutorial on this site,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers/556

heres what happens when i run the comand it says to run,

[root@localhost test]# transcode -i The.Aviator.A-BMF.avi -y ffmpeg --export_prof dvd-ntsc --export_asr 3 -o The.A
viator.A-BMF -D0 -s2 -m The.Aviator.A-BMF.ac3 -J modfps=clonetype=3 --export_fps 29.97
transcode v0.6.14 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg
[transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms
[transcode] auto-probing source The.Aviator.A-BMF.avi (ok)
[transcode] V: import format | XviD RIFF data, AVI (V=ffmpeg|A=ac3)
[transcode] V: import frame | 576x240 2.40:1
XXX: zoom=yes pre_clip=yes
[transcode] V: pre clip frame | 576x336 (-48,0,-48,0)
[transcode] V: zoom | 720x576 1.75:1 (Lanczos3)
[transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.174
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 25.000,3
[transcode] V: Y'CbCr | YV12/I420
[transcode] A: import format | 0x2000 AC3 [48000,16,5] 448 kbps
[transcode] A: downmix | 5 channels -> 2 channels
[transcode] A: export format | 0x55 MPEG layer-3 [48000,16,2] 128 kbps
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 29.970,4
[transcode] A: bytes per frame | 6408 (6406.400000)
[transcode] A: adjustment | -1600@1000
[transcode] A: rescale stream | 2.000
[transcode] V: IA32 accel mode | sse3 (sse3 sse2 sse mmxext mmx asm C)
tc_memcpy: using mmxext for memcpy
[transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x576
[import_ac3.so] v0.3.2 (2002-02-15) (audio) AC3
[import_ffmpeg.so] v0.1.11 (2004-02-29) (video) FFmpeg0.4.9-pre1b4730: MS MPEG4v1-3/MPEG4/MJPEG
[filter_modfps.so] v0.10 (2003-08-18) plugin to modify framerate
[filter_modfps.so] converting from 25.0000fps to 29.9700fps
[export_ffmpeg.so] v0.3.13 (2004-08-03) (video) FFmpeg0.4.9-pre1b4730 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM
[import_ac3.so] AC3->PCM
[import_ac3.so] tcextract -a 0 -i "The.Aviator.A-BMF.avi" -x ac3 -d 0 | tcdecode -x ac3 -d 0 -s 1.000000,1.000000,
1.000000 -A 0
tc_memcpy: using mmxext for memcpy
Warning, allocating 0 bytes
Warning, allocating 0 bytes
Warning, allocating 0 bytes
Warning, allocating 0 bytes
Warning, allocating 0 bytes
Warning, allocating 0 bytes
[export_ffmpeg.so] Could not find a FFMPEG codec for 'mpeg2video'.
[transcode] warning : (encoder.c) video export module error: init failed
[transcode] critical: failed to init encoder
[root@localhost test]#

ne ideas please help im going to go crazy this is driving me insane , i just got totaly rid of windows, lol i dont wanna go back

Search on Google then come back if you still need help.

i think the video is a divx i dunno, google not helping , i tried using ffmpeg but the quality gets so crummy afterwords its not worth it,

I have tried to use transcode several times, different distro's, but never got it to work properly.
Always some codec's missing no matter how many I install, no matter if the "missing" codecs is installed or not...

So my advice is: skip transcode.
You want to convert avi to dvd, I suggest tovid
It creates an .mpg, then use dvdauthor to create the dvd-structure. Or try a gui-tool like dvdstyler or qdvdauthor.
Feel free to come back here if you have further questions!

I recently had the same problem in FC3. I found that only certain combinations of the following packages worked.

In FC3 I used:
ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.20041110.3.1.fc3.rf
faad2-2.0-4.2.fc4
transcode-1.0.0-1.1.fc3.rf
mjpegtools-1.6.3-0.2.rc2.2.fc4
mjpegtools-libs-1.6.3-0.lvn.0.1.rc1.4

In FC4, the only difference is that I use:
mjpegtools-libs-1.6.3-0.lvn.0.1.rc3.4 (note the rc3 as opposed to the rc1)

You can download these packages from http://rpm.pbone.net/

To install the older packages use the comand:
In order to keep yum from updating these packages to newer incompatible ones I update with the command:
It may also be possible to add the package names to the line in /etc/yum.conf as follows:
note that this will install new packages and not "clean" the old ones so that old and new libraries will both be available. Using this method you will not need the --exclude lines in your yum update. Although this seems easier, I have had mixed results and recommend excluding the packages instead of installing multiple versions.

Of course, outdated packages can be hazardous in the future, so it's sometimes helpful to try out new updates to see if they are once again compatible, but keep the old ones handy if you need to revert. Good luck.