Converting AVCHD to .Avi or don't need to?

willhub

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Hi.

This person I know has a JVC GZ-EX215BEK camera, and basically, he wants to take some of the videos he makes and put them onto DVD so he can play them on any DVD player.

From what I gather not all DVD players play AVCHD video (.mts) ?

And trying to put it onto a data dvd, the DVD players won't read it, you see he wants it to be able to work on any dvd player he puts it in, I've tried .avi, .wmv and all come up as unknown format.

I've never really done anything with putting videos onto dvd's so I'm not familiar with it, is a proper piece of software like the full Nero suite needed to burn video to disk for playback on all devices? Does the video even need to be converted from AVCHD?


Thanks
 
you will need to convert it to proper dvd format if you want it to play on dvd players

convertXtodvd might to the job

EDIT: Avoid nero like the plague
 
Andre said:
It needs to be in special DVD format...

DVDFlick generally gets well recommended
Click to expand...

I would actually go with convertxtoDVD, as I've found DVD flick to produce audio sync issues. I use the built-in dvd converter in W7 to better effect (makes nice main menus too), but I don't know if it can handle AVCHD or not.
 
If you want it to play on any DVD player you will need to make a Video DVD, something like Nero will be able to do this for you automatically by converting the AVCHD file to an MPEG2 VOB file and then burn an authored Video DVD.

The Windows 7 DVD Maker might even be able to do this for you.

Only issue you have going to Video DVD is that the video will be converted from HD to SD.
 
Will it only play in HD on BD players?

Does the DVD player need to say HD Ready on it? What formats does it need to support? .m2ts or something?
 
A Video DVD will be SD only, if you want it to be HD for playing on a Blu-ray player you'd need to make a Blu-ray.

Some DVD players can probably read a data DVD containing a HD file but they'll be few and far between. The majority of Blu-ray players are able to play back HD files be it from a data DVD, SD card or memory stick.
 
So only option is burn it as DVD video and in SD. And to play in HD it'll have to be on a BD Player but then no point really burning it as majority of them have SD Card or memory stick slots no?
 
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