how do i burn/copy my movies from my hard drive to dvd so i can watch them on my tv?
also, i can't seem to open files that are .avi, .xvid, etc... can you help me, or direct me please and thank you.
newbie help pls or redirect me...
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I believe doom9.org should have all the information you need.
VLC seems to play pretty much anything you throw at it, so I'd give it a shot.
And as a pre-emptive strike, please don't say anything about which movies you're burning, we don't want to know about your copyright infringment.
VLC seems to play pretty much anything you throw at it, so I'd give it a shot.
And as a pre-emptive strike, please don't say anything about which movies you're burning, we don't want to know about your copyright infringment.
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J187
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and to give you a little head start, here's some quick info to get you lookingin the right direction.
You've got a couple different video format choices for buring. Very popular are
VCD
SVCD
DVD-Video
All three of these can be played on a large number of home dvd players and all computers.
DVD-Video is by far the best quality but needs a DVD burning, DVDR media and a lot of HDD space to work with.
VCD and SVCD can be put on regular CDRs but might need to be split to more than one. The quality is slightly better on SVCD than VCD but netiher is as good as DVD.
DVD files are in the .VOB format and are not often downloaded that way because of the sheer size. So, most people end up encoding some other format like .AVI (divx and such) into DVD files and SVCD and VCD files for burning. This is done because AVI files are typically only between 7 and 800mb compared to the almost 5gb of dvd files. FAQ and Guides can be found at Doom9.com, afterdawn.com, here and dvdrhelp.com. Good luck. Start simple and experiment. BTW, codecs are compression agents that allow to compress or decompress files to play on software media players. SO, if you've got something like BS player or windows media player that won't play your files, you've probably got a codec missing. Search for GSpot a program that tells you what codecs are required for what files and if you have or don't have em'.
You've got a couple different video format choices for buring. Very popular are
VCD
SVCD
DVD-Video
All three of these can be played on a large number of home dvd players and all computers.
DVD-Video is by far the best quality but needs a DVD burning, DVDR media and a lot of HDD space to work with.
VCD and SVCD can be put on regular CDRs but might need to be split to more than one. The quality is slightly better on SVCD than VCD but netiher is as good as DVD.
DVD files are in the .VOB format and are not often downloaded that way because of the sheer size. So, most people end up encoding some other format like .AVI (divx and such) into DVD files and SVCD and VCD files for burning. This is done because AVI files are typically only between 7 and 800mb compared to the almost 5gb of dvd files. FAQ and Guides can be found at Doom9.com, afterdawn.com, here and dvdrhelp.com. Good luck. Start simple and experiment. BTW, codecs are compression agents that allow to compress or decompress files to play on software media players. SO, if you've got something like BS player or windows media player that won't play your files, you've probably got a codec missing. Search for GSpot a program that tells you what codecs are required for what files and if you have or don't have em'.
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