am I in the right place

[fishfingers]

I would like to know of any software that is user friendly for making it possible to burn films onto a cd so it is viewable using my home dvd player.
with thanks David

 

[fishfingers]

Please forgive me if this is not the right place to ask such questions, I would be glad of notification one way or the other so as not to make the same mistake.
thanks. David

 

[RSMemphis]

Well, it depends on your DVD-player at home...
Most of them these days are capable of reading CD-Rs, and most of them can play back SVCD and VCD... (MPEG 2 and MPEG 1).

Your video editing software should be able to output your films in the SVCD and VCD format, and Nero in the later versions can burn it. Due to less error compression, you can even get more data on it than normal (I think 800 MB on a 700 MB CD).

Hope that helps.

 

[fishfingers]

My player will play both formats that you mentioned RsMemphis, and thanks for your quick response, now comes the hard part, I am using Nero, but am new to actually using it to burn the film I have onto cd,[I have only had broadband access for a few days] and would like to know if there are any help sites to get me going.
with thanks David,

ps I have got as far as actually burning the cd but alas theres nothing on it when I try to play it and yet it says it is no longer a recordable disc
I have done this 4 times now.

 

[RSMemphis]

Ah, broadband... Talking about pirating videos in these forums is frowned upon.
So, what you mean is not burning movies you made yourself with a diggy cam, but stuff off of the internet.

Well, sorry to tell you, but most movies you rip off the internet is in DivX / MPEG 4 format, and currently no hardware player can play that back.
Unsure if you can convert DivX back into MPEG 2 or MPEG 1, the former would take too many CDs (at least 8) and the second would diminuish the quality a bit too much.

It's not worth it, IMHO, anyway.