How do I burn DVD on PC to watch on DVD player?

fatboyonadiet

I've got some Windows Media Player videos that I wanted to put onto a DVD to watch on a DVD player. I've used Roxio to get them on it and it works fine on my PC but not on my DVD player - Help!

BertieMeldrew

Try this place... it's excellent for all things DVD etc

Donnie

You'll need to convert the WMV files to a format playable on your DVD player before you put them on DVD. e.g.; mpg or avi(DivX) if your player is compatible with DivX.

You can use this; http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/mediacoder.cfm

nemo183

There's an increasing problem on the internet where sites advertise a good freeware product, but then direct you to a tacky, hopeless bit of software that has almost the same name.

The https://www.afterdawn.com site is one of the most honest I have come across. On the whole, it seems to deliver what it says.

For DVD copying, it has DVD Shrink 3.2 , which is as fast and reliable as any commercial software and is free. I think it is available at

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm

I've used this for a year, and it's great. Easy to use, reliable, etc. The only thing I'd do with the copy options is change your maximum write speed by half, which is slower but a bit more reliable.

fatboyonadiet

Cheers, I'll have to get it and give it a whirl...

BillScarab

A couple of other useful sites are

http://www.doom9.org which has some useful step by step guides

and

http://www.videohelp.com which has lots of information and guides

halloweenqueen_2

Will have a look at these thanks!

nemo183

fatboyonadiet wrote:

I've got some Windows Media Player videos that I wanted to put onto a DVD to watch on a DVD player. I've used Roxio to get them on it and it works fine on my PC but not on my DVD player - Help!

Do let us all know how you get on. There may be different solutions for different versions of WMP, and also if the download is copyright.

For better or worse, there will be not only a solution, but the best will probably be free. FairUse4WM is a tool that MS are trying to have removed as a download, but it's still widely available if you decide to strip copyright.

fatboyonadiet

Managed to get it sorted but having issues trying to get it on DVD, was using DVD-RW but someone advised me to try DVD-Rs instead. I used Roxio but it will only work on PC's not on DVD players but a friend has said try using Nero and burning as images (?).

Donnie

Did you finalise the disc? If you converted the WMV files to MPEG2, you'll need to use Nero to create a DVD playable in your DVD player.
If you have converted them to DVD, you may just need to 'burn' them as a data file.

fatboyonadiet

Think so, reckon I need to have a mess about at doing this again.