Burning to DVD format.

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Well I have a couple movies I'd like to burn to DVD so I can play them on my home theater. For the most part my home theater can read pretty much most burn discs.

I tried 2 different programs last night to burn them to no avail. This is making me feel like a tard as I'm pretty tech savvy.

1 program I used is DivX player.

2nd was merely my Windows Media player with the settings changed to be read by DVD players.

I'm not sure if it's the discs I'm using or I'm just failing miserably with this. It's the first time I've ever tried to burn a movie, I only ever burn audio.

Can someone suggest maybe another program I can use or advise me where I may be going wrong.

Thanks a bundle =)

EDIT: I have Roxio.. but, there didn't seem to be a straight forward 'burn to DVD' format option. I didn't want to chance using 'burn data' as I doubted that would be the correct format.
 
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DVD Decrypter. Rip as .ISO then burn as an image. You'll most likely need dual layer DVDs to hold the movie.
 
Draciot said:
DVD Decrypter. Rip as .ISO then burn as an image. You'll most likely need dual layer DVDs to hold the movie.
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I did have the option to burn as an image using Roxio. I thought that may be like burning pics onto a disc for viewing. That should work though, I mean if the discs are compatible?
 
Morcheeba said:
I did have the option to burn as an image using Roxio. I thought that may be like burning pics onto a disc for viewing. That should work though, I mean if the discs are compatible?
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Roxio can burn the image for you, if you have the ISO. Doing that should make an actual dvd that will work in standard players. Now, if you don't have the image, and it's just a video file, I don't know how to turn those into normal dvds.
 
Draciot said:
Roxio can burn the image for you, if you have the ISO. Doing that should make an actual dvd that will work in standard players. Now, if you don't have the image, and it's just a video file, I don't know how to turn those into normal dvds.
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Bah, they're .aiv and I dl'd a coversion program to convert to ISO.. but it doesn't recognise .aiv.

Huh I'll have to search out the .iso of these movies... poo.
 
What you're looking for is DVD *authoring* software. I can't think of any free ones off the top of my head, but it's basically going to write the dvd as if it were a home movie from a camcorder and you make up the chapters. That's pretty much the only way to make a DVD from a movie file. ISO and other data rips of DVDs will actually contain the extras, language features, and menus from the actual DVD release, but are rare to find online because they're not readily viewable by people who would download it.
 
Taurothar said:
What you're looking for is DVD *authoring* software. I can't think of any free ones off the top of my head, but it's basically going to write the dvd as if it were a home movie from a camcorder and you make up the chapters. That's pretty much the only way to make a DVD from a movie file. ISO and other data rips of DVDs will actually contain the extras, language features, and menus from the actual DVD release, but are rare to find online because they're not readily viewable by people who would download it.
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Thank you!

I did find a couple sites that offer free dl'ble software.
 
So I'm trying this trial version out. I've run into a new problem though, if 718,192kb equals 701.35938mb why is this program wanting 2000 + mb of space to write this dvd? Anyone know?
 
Where are you getting the 718K number from? Is that the reported file size of the current file? If so, bear in mind that the current video file is probably in a very highly compressed format. In order to burn it in DVD format, the program probably splits out the audio track, uncompresses both the Audio and Video then recombines them on the DVD resulting in a larger file size.
 
alanon said:
Where are you getting the 718K number from? Is that the reported file size of the current file? If so, bear in mind that the current video file is probably in a very highly compressed format. In order to burn it in DVD format, the program probably splits out the audio track, uncompresses both the Audio and Video then recombines them on the DVD resulting in a larger file size.
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I was completely unaware of that fact. It makes better sense being explained as such. That being said, someone mentioned dual layered discs for burning DVD. Am I to assume this is required not just optional as the burning process will split all the components?
 
Morcheeba said:
I was completely unaware of that fact. It makes better sense being explained as such. That being said, someone mentioned dual layered discs for burning DVD. Am I to assume this is required not just optional as the burning process will split all the components?
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I was the one that mentioned DL DVDs, but I thought you were trying to rip and copy real DVD movies, the ISOs for which can be around 9gb.
 
Draciot said:
I was the one that mentioned DL DVDs, but I thought you were trying to rip and copy real DVD movies, the ISOs for which can be around 9gb.
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Naw I have no use ripping from DVD's. It's the file formats I get from online that I'm having difficulties with.. avi, dvdrip etc. The ISO's are very difficult to find.
 
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