Making DVDs

ste_bla · 5 Feb 2012 at 21:53

IS there an all in one or easy/free way of making dvds to work in a normal xbox from AVI and MKV files?

Cheers!

Meatball · 5 Feb 2012 at 22:03

It's a messy job and the quality will likely be poor. Converting to DVD will involve:
Interlacing the video
Converting to the inferior MPEG2 codec
Taking any widescreen footage and letter boxing it in 4:3 frame or making it anamorphic

For the trouble you'll go through and the sub-par quality you'll get you're better of buying a media receiver (ACRyan or WDTV Live) and using that to play the video.

Why do you need to convert to DVD?

ste_bla · 5 Feb 2012 at 22:07

Play videos around a friends house, and how bad is bad?

Philtor · 5 Feb 2012 at 22:09

Convert X to DVD is what I use. Freemake is also worth a look mind and it's free

bledd · 5 Feb 2012 at 22:29

handbrake

nuttyprot · 6 Feb 2012 at 08:08

I use WinAVI All in One Converter I know not free but its awsum piece of software.

Cyclone · 6 Feb 2012 at 09:02

Avi2dvd

soundesciple · 6 Feb 2012 at 12:15

philtorrens said:
Convert X to DVD is what I use. Freemake is also worth a look mind and it's free

+1 convert X to DVD, i use this and never had a fail yet, it converts, resizes, and burns to disk all with one click.

Dirk · 6 Feb 2012 at 14:00

soundesciple said:
+1 convert X to DVD, i use this and never had a fail yet, it converts, resizes, and burns to disk all with one click.

Not to mention the ability to add menus/chapters etc. Really useful bit of kit all told.

alle · 6 Feb 2012 at 17:21

...Aimersoft video converter ultimate.
Does the same job.

Stoner81 · 7 Feb 2012 at 14:58

+1 for ConverXtoDVD.

Stoner81.

davethe11 · 7 Feb 2012 at 18:32

As an alternative this may be of interest if you don't mind streaming from a pc/laptop to the xbox. Never tried this though, only found it recently for someone else to check out.

Doco · 8 Feb 2012 at 00:23

philtorrens said:
Convert X to DVD is what I use. Freemake is also worth a look mind and it's free

i use this too and have done for about 2 yers now, really good and easy to use

lemoon · 9 Feb 2012 at 06:37

Try aneesoft DVD creator, a program allows you import different video formats such as AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, DivX, VOB, M2TS and MKV for outputting to home movie DVDs, if you want to create DVD folders and ISO image files, it's OK too.

Well, just searched in this forum, and found this tool also seems not bad: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=ME-023-VB

maybe you could get the aneesoft trail version to have a try and then make choice.