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Old 4th January 2012, 02:56   #5  |  Link
hello_hello
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If you've burned DVDs you'll know there's different types of ways to burn them. A DVD complaint video disc is pretty much in the same format as a DVD movie you buy. Alternatively you can write video files to a DVD the same as you'd write any other type of file (data disc).
Most DVD players support playing standard definition AVIs burned to a DVD data disc. Many Bluray players will play high definition AVIs, MP4s and MKVs also burned to DVD data discs, and they'll all still play the traditional DVD video discs.

How you convert your Bluray discs though depends on what formats your player supports. These are 2 HD video disc formats for Bluray which use DVDs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#BD9_and_BD5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD#C...y_Disc_players

If your player's more clever it'll play file types such as AVI, MP4, & MKV etc burned to a normal DVD data disc. If it's even cleverer it'll probably have a USB input and will be able to play the same file types from a USB stick or even a USB hard drive.

Somewhere in the manual should be a list of file types and formats your player supports, or post the make and model here. With any luck it'll support MP4 and MKV so you don't have to mess around creating BD5/9 or AVCD complaint video discs.

Edit. Whichever way you go you're going to have to convert the original video in order to fit it on a DVD. You'll probably want to be using a quad core CPU. I have two PCs with basically the same CPU only one's a quad core and the other's dual core. I never use the dual core for encoding with the x264 encoder (which is normally used for HD) as it's way too slow.

Last edited by hello_hello; 4th January 2012 at 03:06.
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