What's the best way to burn DVDs?

[prettylovely1]

Okay, So i'm really bad with computers but I wanna Burn some dvds for myself of H!P stuff( for when I'm on the road just me & my portable dvd player.) I have tried lots of stuff but I can never get them to play in my dvd player. even though I have a laptop it doesn't fit much and I have to use most of the space for work so i'll die without my fav Hp stuff to watch. so..... Any helping hands?

[huggumwuggums]

Try DVD Flick. Haven't tried it myself, but I heard it was good.

http://www.dvdflick.net/

[NAzu]

If you're just burning the stuff on the dvd the dvdplayer must have a divx playback or else it will just play disc's that are in the dvd format (=VOB). If you have files in VOB format you can burn them to dvd normally and the player should play them just fine.

[tiny]

I'd suggest ImgBurn. It burns plain data dvds and also video dvds. Guides are on the website.

[NAzu]

Program called ConvertXtoDVD works pretty nicely. You just choose a video file and the program converts it to dvd file (audio&video ts files). After it's done you can just burn it to dvd and play it on your dvd player. If there's a separate subtitle file for the video this program can also integrate it to the video file.

[DANG_BLUE]

IMO, Nero Express is best!

[sh15uya]

Program called ConvertXtoDVD works pretty nicely. You just choose a video file and the program converts it to dvd file (audio&video ts files). After it's done you can just burn it to dvd and play it on your dvd player. If there's a separate subtitle file for the video this program can also integrate it to the video file.

I use it and it's pretty good but some dvd players can't read the DVD since there is no zone specified ( I don't really care because my players are region-free ).

for burning DVD I used CDBurnerXP Pro but it doesn't seem to work on Vista so I use Nero ( even if I don't like it )

[strawberrie]

Yeah, most programs still don't work with Vista. I have dvd burning programs on my computer but I have try them out yet to see which one is better.

[prettylovely1]

Thanks guys, DVDflick work really well for a while but then stop( what can you do right?) so I am now trying out other things just a helpful hint for dvd flick users it has alot of bugs and it is always being updated so you have to re-download it again & again.

[JFC]

Would anyone happen to know of a good, freeware program for Macs that can burn ISOs? I was talking to my neighbour's son (who has a G5 Mac), and he's looking for one.

[RatBastich]

Just googled this one:

http://www.centromedia.com/en/products/discburner/index.html

Its freeware and from its screenshots, it does burn image files, so ISO's shouldn't be a prob for it.

[JFC]

^ Thanks bro, I'll let him know the next time I see him.

[Yuna]

When I author my own DVDs I use TMPGEnc for reencode and for menus I use Adobe Encore.
Adobe is not that easy to use but the other is, you should have no problem to use it !

[chokkan 2]

use a DVD Burner

haha just kidding ^_^

I use Nero..... but I hate it because I'm too cheap to buy new software

[Kamui]

Why is it that when I try to burn several eps of H!M onto a dvd I can only fit like 2 eps (approx 700 MB each) and something smaller like an Utaban ep or something onto the disc? And thats without being able to add the subtitles too since I don't know how to burn them onto a dvd. I mean the disc says its a 4.7GB, so whats the deal?

Am I doing something wrong? I mean I can fit like 6 eps onto the dvd if I burn it as a data dvd but then I can only watch them on my computer. Is there some feature of Nero that could help or what?

[frblckstr1]

^ Sounds like you request to burn them as DVD-Video, 4.7GB can fit 1Hour at high quility.

The only thing you can do is reduce recording quality to fit more minutes on the disk.
Or you could by a cheap new DVD-player that can play xvid/divx videos from a data disk.

[Kamui]

Oh I see. I never thought of time as being an issue, I was always looking at file size instead. Thanks.