Movies to DVD

[The Black Baron]

I'm interested in playing other file types on my DVD player, too, so this thread is helpful. I guess a good place to start in this process is to look at my DVD player's manual and see if there is any info on the formats it supports.

[auster]

Originally Posted by anal61

Best to convert the full dvd to avi , split into the scenes you wish , then convert each split into a seperate dvd.

That would work but for £35 you can get a dvd that will play xvid and divx so you have to ask yourself - is it really worth all the headaches.

I agree.
My DVD player is also avi, xvid, divx and mp4 enabled, plus it has a USB input.
This allows me to transfer movies from my PC using my 8gb flash drive.
Additionally, since divx files are so small, the flash drive can carry up to approx 20 hours of films in one load and I don't need to use disks any longer - although the player will handle all the formats on disk as well.
You should also bear in mind that Flick takes about ninety minutes (on my PC) to convert and burn a two hour DVD format disk.
Player cost £25 (on offer) and the flash drive cost £10 - a pretty modest outlay for such a neat solution.

[Hugh Jampton]

A few movies have started to appear on the Classic Movies forum as fully fledged DVD files ( with .vob files etc )

They play OK using VLC or PowerDVD but does anyone know how to save these movies to DVD's that will play thru PC and DVD player?

I imagine I'll be looking for a piece of software.... any links to freeware that does the job would be welcome.

[DubSalute]

Good freeware alternative when you do not have Nero Burning Rom is this program:

CDBurnerXP

• 100% Freeware
• Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
• Filesize: about 5MB
• Info and download: http://cdburnerxp.se/

It also offers a few small illustarted guides: http://cdburnerxp.se/help/

Here you can find how to burn the VIDEO_TS/.VOB files, look at second part under "Burning video DVDs":
http://cdburnerxp.se/help/Data/create-video-dvd

Here is a small guide on how to burn .ISO images to disk:
http://cdburnerxp.se/help/Data/burn-iso

Succes

[thumper]

IMGBurn!

[lds17pl]

To save space at PC and at burning DVD/CD I convert DVD format to Xvid (AVI) and store at Data-DVD/Data-CD. Most of not too old DVD players are able to play Divx/Xvid format.
Same converting at DVD rip to generate smaller Xvid (AVI) files by 2 reasons:
- easy video cut with AVIdemux
- saving a lot of space and time at uploading to file hosts (free accounts) for postings like at VEF

links to free XP software (no registration needed):

Any Video Converter (please remove ".bin" extension)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xozmhnnngdm

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum 4 (free serial number included)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?k5dnwlmwmqm

[T2000]

I use the free version of Deep Burner:

http://www.deepburner.com/?r=product...r&prr=features