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Burning a movie to a cd?

  • 21-06-2007 8:06pm
    #1
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,640 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    I have Windows XP and I'm trying to burn a video of mine onto a cd. Does anyone know how to do this?

    I'm pretty sure I found out how to do this a few months ago but I can't for the life of me remember what I did. Google hasn't been much help either. I think there's a special way of downloading videos to a cd?

    Help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    galactus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭galactus


    Assuming you want to burn an .avi to CD* and play it on a standard DVD player you'll need Nero other buring software.

    XP's built in DVD burner will only burn the avi file as data: this is OK if you have a newer (DivX) player.

    Great guides for all this are at afterdawn.com

    *Meant to say DVD here!!


  • #3
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    but you can't burn a movie/video to cd...it has to be a DVD disc??


  • #4
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,640 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    When I say a movie I mean like a movie from Windows Movie Maker. One of the video files.

    Isn't there an easy enough way to do this without special software?


  • #5
    Oman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Oman


    well if its in movie maker save it as movie, click file and then click save movie. then with whatever software u have for dvd burning it should recognise it because its a wmv file i think instead of a msmms thing or whatever it is when you save it normally


  • #6
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    I think what u are looking for is software to burn a video file to VCD (Video CD). Loads on guides on how to do this. Afterdawn & doom9 sites are really good.
    A VCD will play on a standalone dvd player, old or new.


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  • #7
    galactus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭galactus


    philstar wrote:
    but you can't burn a movie/video to cd...it has to be a DVD disc??

    My bad typo.


  • #8
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    philstar wrote:
    but you can't burn a movie/video to cd...it has to be a DVD disc??

    Yes you can, it's called, a Video CD. :) I have a load of Video CDs. They were big in the Far East a while back. And yes, they were perfectly legal.
    degsie wrote:
    A VCD will play on a standalone dvd player, old or new.

    I would say that is not always the case. Video CDs are Mpeg 1, DVDs are mpeg 2. Some DVD players can't play mpeg 1.
    Mr.Nice Guy wrote:
    Isn't there an easy enough way to do this without special software?

    Google it. I remember doing it a long while back. There's an article on Microsoft's website about it.


  • #9
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    tom dunne wrote:
    I would say that is not always the case. Video CDs are Mpeg 1, DVDs are mpeg 2. Some DVD players can't play mpeg 1.
    QUOTE]

    Ok so, then use SVCD which is Mpeg2 ;)


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