What CD/DVD Burning Software to use? Help!

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Really fustrating. All I want to do is covert my torrent films to DVD. The current Blank CD'S are Verbatim DVD-R ones. I've tried using Windows Media Player and Nero but when I use Windows Media Player my DVD player says "Cannot play" and when I used Nero it worked but there was no picture, only sound! My DVD player can play DVD-R disks because on the front of it it states it can play -R, RW, +R playback bla bla bla.

What FREE software can I use to do what I want! Thank you for reading :)
 
Just get a dvd player that plays xvid/mp4 files. They're less than £20 at a well known supermarket. No more faffing around converting to vobs, just burn avi's as data discs, shove the resulting dvd in and watch.
 
SourChipmunk said:
Heh. I thought that was too simple. Attempt to convert and it fails immediately. :(
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DVD Flick doesn't even work. It took 3 hours to do, popped the disk into a DVD player and nothing happened. Shocking software that it. Don't download DVD Flick. All my friends seem to be using Nero but when I do it there is only sound and no vidoe! ggrrrrr
 
I'm experimenting with AVS2DVD now. You really have to pay attention to the installation because it installs 5 different support applications. The first pass took 2 hours and 10 minutes. It created the VOB beautifully, sound and video synced perfectly using default settings, and it plays well on my PC.

However, when I attempted to burn it to DVD (using Win7 Explorer), my wife's PC and my DVD player don't recognise it. My office PC recognised it though. I kicked off using the application itself to write to DVD (I overlooked that option the first time), and am waiting to see the results of that.

Well worth a play, though! :)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd/
 
Ashampoo free doesn't seem to have the conversion tools.

avs2dvd (post #11) - I put the DVD in my PS3 to see if it would work there, no joy. BUT! It did give me the reason why... PAL!! I didn't check the preferences to change it to NTSC (I am, after all, in the US ;)). So, giving it another go with the correct settings this time. See ya in a couple hours!
 
Heh. I thought that was too simple. Attempt to convert and it fails immediately
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DVD Flick doesn't even work. It took 3 hours to do, popped the disk into a DVD player and nothing happened. Shocking software that it.
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I've used DVD Flick on different occasions in the past and never had any problems with it, either converting or burning...

Will give this latest version a go sometime when I get the chance.

EDIT: Just installed and ran current version 1.3.0.7 and it worked ok with me, encoding, authoring and burning, just under 28 mins from start to finish (video file 1 hour 53 mins) and played in a dvd player...
 
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jbloggs... I'll give it a try again next time in need. Maybe I just needed a reboot. :)

But I finally got results! AVS2DVD to encode (NTSC this time), then ashampoo FREE to burn the VOB. Worked perfectly! And... wow! The quality of the video, the audio sync, just perfect. :)

Seriously, though, pay attention to the install of AVS2DVD. It is open source, but MS Security Essential flags it as potential bad-ware. It is absolutely clean and fine. And it installs 5 other packages with it, each one with it's own installer. They are fine also (don't bother with desktop or start menu items though). Whoever created the package to sync them all together knew what he was doing, and the resulting VOB is immaculate. I just couldn't get the "burn" feature to work, so ashampoo took care of that. Yay!!
 
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SourChipmunk said:
jbloggs... I'll give it a try again next time in need. Maybe I just needed a reboot. :)

But I finally got results! AVS2DVD to encode (NTFS this time), then ashampoo FREE to burn the VOB. Worked perfectly! And... wow! The quality of the video, the audio sync, just perfect. :)

Seriously, though, pay attention to the install of AVS2DVD. It is open source, but MS Security Essential flags it as potential bad-ware. It is absolutely clean and fine. And it installs 5 other packages with it, each one with it's own installer. They are fine also (don't bother with desktop or start menu items though). Whoever created the package to sync them all together knew what he was doing, and the resulting VOB is immaculate. I just couldn't get the "burn" feature to work, so ashampoo took care of that. Yay!!
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When you use AVS2DVD all you did was encode your avi video to a folder you chose, then opened ashampoo, chose burn dvd video then opened your encoded video that you did in avs2dvd?
Sorry but im a complete noob, whats the point of encoding when there are programs out there that can just burn a dvd without the need to encode. Does encoding produce better quality DVD's?
 
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