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12-15-2006, 04:22 PM
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I would like to learn how to burn videos onto a disc and watch it on the tv via dvd/vcd player.
Can anyone here guide me?Please?
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12-15-2006, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by vampireheart  I would like to learn how to burn videos onto a disc and watch it on the tv via dvd/vcd player.
Can anyone here guide me?Please? |
Depending on what you want exactly this may be either very simple or it maybe very difficult and expensive, needing extra s/w.
Needless to say, the idea is toburn the 'movie' onto the disk in a format that your DVD player will recognise it. The easiest way I know of of doing this is the get an MPEG2 video clip and burn it to to a data CD and put it in your DVD player. If I do this the player will show me a directory lkisting of files on the disk and ask me which one to play. Similar to if Iloaded the disk with JPG pictures and wanted to watch them as a slideshow.
However, if you wanted a quality product on DVD with menus etc then you need extra s/w, time and patience to learn how to drive it.
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I did, thankyou. 
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12-16-2006, 02:51 AM
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mpeg-2?
I have a vcd/dvd player.
I would like to burn data onto a cd and watch it on the player.
My files are in AVI format.
Any help would be well appreciated.
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12-16-2006, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by vampireheart mpeg-2?
I have a vcd/dvd player.
I would like to burn data onto a cd and watch it on the player.
My files are in AVI format.
Any help would be well appreciated.
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DVDs that you buy contain VOB files (amongst others). These files are essentailly just MPEG2 video files, so your DVD player should know what to do with a standard MPG (mpeg2) files if it;s on the disk. I would be very surprised indeed if it would play AVI files.
Of course you could invest in a DVD authoring package (or download a trial) whihc will happily convert your AVI to MPEG2 and allow you to make a 'proper' DVD.
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12-16-2006, 11:19 AM
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Lol, I belive i said i wanted to make a vcd.
That I have a CD-r and I want to burn the movie in it to watch it on the tv.
not dvd.
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12-16-2006, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by vampireheart Lol, I belive i said i wanted to make a vcd.
That I have a CD-r and I want to burn the movie in it to watch it on the tv.
not dvd.
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You mentioned VCD but didn't say that was your ultimate aim. In my humble opinion though, it's a lousy format. I wouldn't aim for anythign less than a proper DVD if I were you. Quality is way way better and 'modern' software is more in tune with authoring DVDs than VCDs.
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12-16-2006, 03:51 PM
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No offence..But that certainly did not answer my queries.
One more, is there a way I can split a video into 2 discs?
How do I do that.
So...Once again, how do I put a video into a cd-r and watch it on the TV.
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12-16-2006, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by vampireheart No offence..But that certainly did not answer my queries.
One more, is there a way I can split a video into 2 discs?
How do I do that.
So...Once again, how do I put a video into a cd-r and watch it on the TV.
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There's no trying to help some people. Having actually made a few VCDs I've got more I can offer here but I'm out of this one. Any other takers?
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12-17-2006, 03:37 AM
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I just need to know whats the format I need to be able to burn it into the disc.
And
Whether I can split the video into 2 discs
Ah, why is it sooo hard??
I have been on here posting for 4 ++ days.
I still have not gotten anything...
Have a nice day.
Once again, I want to burn into a cd-r.
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12-17-2006, 09:32 AM
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