Converting WMV (Windows Media Video) to play on standard DVD player

ERU · 22 May 2006 at 11:04

Ok folks i have a serious problem i need to sort out by tonight. I have made (am still making) a video for work that i need to show to a large audience tomorrow.

My problem is that i need to show it on a standard home DVD player but it is currently in .WMV format. Whats my chances of:
A) Converting the files to play on a home DVD player? I think they are .VOB files?
B) Getting it converted to DIVX so it can play on a DIVX DVD player?

All help will appreciated and time is running out. I'll be replying during the day

ERU

scaramanga182 · 22 May 2006 at 11:44

I think Nero 7 will convert as it burns if you want to create an SVCD or a proper movie DVD.

binaryknight · 22 May 2006 at 11:49

think winavi can do it as well

A2Z · 22 May 2006 at 11:51

Hi

Winavi will do both perfectly for you

Just select the convert to DVD option, and select the wmv file and it will output a folder with audio_ts and video_ts folders. To burn just go into Nero and select the DVD-video burning option under DVD, and copy the video_ts folder over. (audio_ts will be empty, dont need that)

To play on DivX player, select the convert to avi option in Winavi, it should automatically use DivX to encode anyway, but you can click advanced to check. Burn in Nero as DVD-ROM(ISO) under DVD, (basically as a data dvd) and should play fine in your DivX player

Good luck with your presentation

ERU · 22 May 2006 at 13:15

I've just noticed that saving the finished video as 'DV-AVI (PAL)' might help. I thought you could only save as '.WMV' in Windows Movie Maker 2 but this saves it as .AVI
Will this help?

Sirrel Squirrel · 22 May 2006 at 13:17

If you save it as DV-AVI it will be far better quality depending on what your source is, I'm assuming you've edited a video tape or something? I thought windows movie maker has an option to export to dvd?

ERU · 22 May 2006 at 15:11

Sirrel Squirrel said:
I thought windows movie maker has an option to export to dvd?

I've looked for ages and i can't find it.

Sirrel Squirrel · 22 May 2006 at 15:21

ERU said:
I've looked for ages and i can't find it.

Yeah sorry my mistake, I just had a look, I was thinking of the export to cd option.

Export the movie to DV-AVI though and then use Nero or one of the programs in this thread to put it on a dvd.

http://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/nero7-demo.php for Nero, the program that does it is called Nero Vision Express

Energize · 22 May 2006 at 17:23

Use svcd2dvd its much better than neros poor quality encoder.

ERU · 22 May 2006 at 22:55

Cheers for the help guys. I went for DVD Santa in the end as it simple to use and produces high quality output compared to Nero.