how to put ifo by email onto cd/dvd disc

symikins

hello

ive been recieving spanish lessons by email and have saved them in a folder on my email system ,can i transfer them onto a cd/dvd disc , the lessons are visual as well as sound so which disc do i use ? ... i have a really bad signal for my broadband and keep losing it so it would be good to have it all on disc for when im off line ..... very simple directions would be good pse thanks in advance

esuhl

CDs and DVDs can be recorded in a special format so, for example, you can play an audio CD in a standalone player, and a video DVD in a separate box attached to your TV...

You could try to convert the video files you have into DVD video format (do a web search for DVD authoring), but it's a pain in the bum and... you only need to do that if you want to be able to play the DVD in a standalone player.

As well as the special audio CD & video DVD formats, computers can use these types of optical disks to store any types of computer files on, a bit like a floppy disk or a hard drive or whatever. But, of course, if you "burn" (i.e. record) the files like this, a CD won't play on a separate CD music player and a DVD won't play in your set-top box.

So, if you just want to save the video files, you can use any disk so long as it has enough "space" to store them. A CD can typically hold 700MB, while a single-layer DVD can hold 4.7GB, a double-layer DVD 8.4GB, a Blu-Ray 25GB and a double-layer Blu-Ray 50GB.

You may well have CD/DVD-recording software on your PC, but if not, a really quick & simple program to do this would be the free version of DeepBurner:
http://www.deepburner.com/?pr=deepburner&r=products