What CD/DVD Burning Software to use? Help!

[davetrace1]

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

 

[davetrace1]

Heh. I thought that was too simple. Attempt to convert and it fails immediately.

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

 

[davetrace1]

Convertxtodvd.

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Just downloaded that, it doesn't covert straight to DVD, it encodes it then puts it in a folder.

 

[davetrace1]

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!!

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?

 

[davetrace1]

FINALLY got a stable DVD burning program that burns DVD with high qulaity, DVD Flick! Really good program, I didn't realise you could "tick" an option "burn directly to disk". If you tick this DVD Flick will encode the video first then burn it directly to your disk using Image Burn. Just finished then and the quality is amazing! The video and audio sync is perfect! I will be using this from now on Thank you jbloggs who suggested DVD Flick Oh and do you know what formats Dvd Flick uses? I can't seem to find the information.