Burning video as data DVDs, compatible with most commercial players?

[IceCracker]

The title kinda sums it up. I'm wondering if I can burning video as data (instead of burning an actual video DVD), and be able to play it on most stand-alone DVD players (I.e., not computer ones). The reason being is that I really need to free up some hard drive space and I don't want to use like 50 DVDs to do it... I'd experiment myself but I don't actually have a DVD player besides the one in my PC.

So if anyone knows/has tried this before and could help me out... I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

No.

[IceCracker]

Hehe, alright. Thanks for the quick reply!

[redwudz]

Baldrick's a man of few words. Some DVD players can play MPEGs directly, but it's not universal. DVDs are, so would always be a better choice.

An alternative would be to get a Divx type DVD player and convert your DVDs to that format. Depending on how much compression you use, you may be able to get 3 or 4 videos on a data DVD with reasonable quality.

[theewizard]

frys has a 100 pack of DVD +R for $19

100 movies, if you don't make any coasters

nothing is going to cost less than archiving them to DVD

say you have 90 movies that 90 dvds less than $20

your DviX player is going to cost a lot more than that and you will still need 30 dvds for the 90 movies

it gets even more expensive PER movie if your talking 30 to 60 movies

the player is going to cost money no matter how many DVDs you burn or don't burn

[bendixG15]

frys has a 100 pack of DVD +R for $19

Careful here ......
Many people would not put anything of value on a house brand DVD disk purchased from Fry's for 19 cents.
I wouldn't ....

[MOVIEGEEK]

Great Value(brand)=poor quality

[pro3]

well. If you convert your video to avi file like divx or xvid... which will have a .avi extension. Then burn this as a data on your dvd or cdr. And this will play on your standalone dvd player as long as your players says it can play DIVX or mpeg4.

[jman98]

If the DVD player supports Divx, that means it can play files burned to data discs, so such a player would support video burned as data to DVD discs.

[Baldrick]

Still not MOST dvd players... .

[ogk]

Costco sells Toshiba DVD player for $45, plays DiVX, Xvid, converts PAL to NTSC

[solarfox]

Great Value(brand)=poor quality

Boy, ain't that the truth. Same goes for Office Depot's/OfficeMax's (I forget which) "KHypermedia" brand; both it and Fry's "Great Value" are about as craptacular as it gets.

IMO, there is absolutely no good reason to use this cheap bargain-basement junk these days. You can easily find good Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim discs for around $0.40/disc if you shop around online a bit... and if the data you're archiving onto those discs is worth so little to you that you don't want to pay that extra twenty-one cents, then why are you bothering to save it in the first place?

[turk690]

The "convert from PAL to NTSC" (or vice-versa) feature of some DVD players has to be qualified: on some players the lines are indeed resampled to reflect the conversion (576 to 480, for example), but stay as they are on some; analogue modulation is changed (PAL to NTSC, for ex) on ALL; frame rate IS NOT changed and stays the same on ALL. This means that, in a PAL-to-NTSC converting player the analogue output is NOT true NTSC (which necessarily means a framerate of 29.97, a color subcarrier of 3.579545MHz w/NTSC color modulation scheme, an asymetric bandwidth of 4.2MHz). Since the framerate remains 25 (or 50 fields/sec) it is specifically NTSC 50, which some monitors may or may not display correctly.
While analogue systems NTSC & PAL are going to be extinct one day when they are obliterated by HDTV, many systems around the world still have to currently deal with realtime true-blue PAL/NTSC conversion that demand high quality that can only be provided by, for example, some $20,000 Snell & Wilcox systems converters that are hardly in the same class as a $100 pseudo-converting DVD player, or even a VCR like Panasonic's AG-W3.

[theewizard]

frys has a 100 pack of DVD +R for $19

Careful here ......
Many people would not put anything of value on a house brand DVD disk purchased from Fry's for 19 cents.
I wouldn't ....

I read the guide, i also download the DVD info program

according to the program , these are high-quality SONY discs, 4.5 DVD's single layer

i've been using them for several years for burning with my PC and they have proved to be excellent, great color, NO drop out problems, unless maybe you like to burn all the way to the edge of the disc,

MY eyes can't see any difference in the movie if i Don't use that last 300 meg.