Free application for video to DVD?

[Rob Williams]

A friend of mine has been having problems with her older version of Nero for a while, and she's looking to replace it for a more reliable application. Ideally, something free would be great, but I'm not quite sure what's out there as I never deal with these scenarios myself. She's looking for a tool that will allow her to take any video and convert it so that it can be burned to a DVD to be played on a real DVD player.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[2Tired2Tango]

A friend of mine has been having problems with her older version of Nero for a while, and she's looking to replace it for a more reliable application. Ideally, something free would be great, but I'm not quite sure what's out there as I never deal with these scenarios myself. She's looking for a tool that will allow her to take any video and convert it so that it can be burned to a DVD to be played on a real DVD player.

Anyone have any ideas?

For general burning tasks ... http://cdburnerxp.se/

To convert AVI files to DVD...
http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.php
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/movie-dvd-maker/

To make DIVX DVDs (4 or 5 movies per disk) ...
http://www.divx.com/en/products/software/windows/divx

 

[Rob Williams]

Thanks a ton for the help Tango! The application from Sothink looked good, so I gave it a shot and it seemed to have worked quite well. The DVD works in the PC though, and not in the Xbox, so I'm not sure what's up there. I'd try it in the PS3, but that thing tends to play almost anything. I'll take the DVD I burned and try it at her house later this week and hope for the best. Great program for free though.

As for the DivX DVDs... I don't quite understand that. I went to the site, but there's no mention of DVDs at all. I have heard of that though. That would require the DVD player supporting DivX, right? I'm not sure if hers would, but I'll take a look and find out.

Thanks again, this is great!

 

[Merlin]

Thanks a ton for the help Tango! The application from Sothink looked good, so I gave it a shot and it seemed to have worked quite well. The DVD works in the PC though, and not in the Xbox, so I'm not sure what's up there. I'd try it in the PS3, but that thing tends to play almost anything. I'll take the DVD I burned and try it at her house later this week and hope for the best. Great program for free though.

As for the DivX DVDs... I don't quite understand that. I went to the site, but there's no mention of DVDs at all. I have heard of that though. That would require the DVD player supporting DivX, right? I'm not sure if hers would, but I'll take a look and find out.

Thanks again, this is great!

The Phillips DVD players support DivX...I have two of them

 

[2Tired2Tango]

As for the DivX DVDs... I don't quite understand that. I went to the site, but there's no mention of DVDs at all. I have heard of that though. That would require the DVD player supporting DivX, right? I'm not sure if hers would, but I'll take a look and find out.

Thanks again, this is great!

Players with DIVX support basically look for a displayable menu, like at the beginning of a regular DVD except instead of showing all these extras you get a list of the movies. The big plus is you can also stuff them into a computer and play the movies in MPClassic or WMP just like disk files. Most players with DIVX support have a marking on the tray that says so.

 

[stephenchy]

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