Converting movies to DVD

[violator666]

Iam not only a PC newbie but also a newbie when it comes to copying or burning movies. I cannot seem to master the skill of burning movies that I have downloaded into " My Downloads " folder. Is there a program that can do this and is relatively easy to use and the instructions are easy to understand? Any help would be awesome! Thank you.

Violator666

[guns1inger]

ConvertXtoDVD and Imgburn or AVStoDVD and Imgburn if you want a DVD. Imgburn to burn as data if you have a player capable of playing different formats.

[violator666]

I have used some of them but I had no luck. The problem Iam having is after I DL a torrent ( Movie )and I put it in say a folder called " Action Movies." then when i want to burn it onto a DVD there lies the problem............no Success
even with Nero 9, DVD Shrink, Any DVD, or Alcohol 120% What Am I doing wrong?

[hech54]

I have used some of them but I had no luck. The problem Iam having is after I DL a torrent ( Movie )and I put it in say a folder called " Action Movies." then when i want to burn it onto a DVD there lies the problem............no Success
even with Nero 9, DVD Shrink, Any DVD, or Alcohol 120% What Am I doing wrong?

1) What you are describing is teetering on ILLEGAL.
2) None of those programs you listed above are recommended for doing the job you are wanting to do.

[thegeeman]

First of all, what hech54 mentions is true-on both points. You risk being banned for warez. It was pretty blatant that its borderline funny.

2 things:

1. If you are discussing possible avi files, then you can burn to disc (as a data disc) and then play them (if player is xvid/divx compatible);
2. if player is not compatible, then these need encoding to dvd format before burning to disc. Check out the tools section on the left. As a newbie, i would suggest the all-in-one-converters. I make no secret that dvdflick is my favourite but its all down to personal choice.

[greymalkin]

First of all, what hech54 mentions is true-on both points. You risk being banned for warez. It was pretty blatant that its borderline funny.

2 things:

1. If you are discussing possible avi files, then you can burn to disc (as a data disc) and then play them (if player is xvid/divx compatible);
2. if player is not compatible, then these need encoding to dvd format before burning to disc. Check out the tools section on the left. As a newbie, i would suggest the all-in-one-converters. I make no secret that dvdflick is my favourite but its all down to personal choice.

yet you continue on to tell him how to do it. does anyone have any sense anymore?

[redwudz]

The OP hasn't mentioned anything that is in violation of our rules. Not all torrents are copyrighted. If he is DLing copyrighted videos, then asking for help is a violation.

And, violator666, in the future please use a more descriptive subject title in your posts to allow others to search for similar topics. I will change yours this time. From our rules:

Try to choose a subject that describes your topic.
Please do not use topic subjects like Help me!!! or Problems.

Thanks,

Moderator redwudz

[violator666]

I think there is a misunderstanding here due to my limited experience using a computer. I have friends that have movies of me at skateboarding championships in Australia posted on YouTube........I want to copy those movies for myself because it was an important time in my life. Iam not an idiot, just a beginner.........and I know copying movies is illegal and I did not mean that at all.

Violator666

[guns1inger]

So back to the beginning.

Videos from youtube will be either flv (flash video) or MP4, assuming you simply download them without converting them to something else.

Once you have them on your HDD, ConvertXtoDVD or AVStoDVD can be used to create a DVD structure (video_TS folder with DVD contents), and Imgburn to burn the results to DVD blanks for playback in your player.

That is all there is to it.

[RdM642]

even with Nero 9, DVD Shrink, Any DVD, or Alcohol 120% What Am I doing wrong?

2) None of those programs you listed above are recommended for doing the job you are wanting to do.

Why would nero 9 not be recommended?

[guns1inger]

Personally, me reasons are as follows

1. Nero is bloatware of the first order. A full install of all Nero features is over a gigabyte in size. The functionality it offers simply does not warrant that sort of space commitment.

2. Nero's quality has steadily declined in all areas pretty much in accordance with it's bloat. The more they have added, the more spread the developers have become, and the worse the produce has got.

3. There are simply far better options available at lower costs and smaller footprints. Yes, they are a selection of dedicated programs, and not a combined toolset under a single interface, but each is far better at what it does than Nero's equivalent.

If you want the best quality, use the right tool for each job, even if it means learning 6 good tools instead of one average tool.

I was a Nero fan through to version 5.5, but as version 6 developed they lost me, and I have never looked back. I have a handful of Nero discs at home from various drive purchases, and none have ever been used.

[MpegEncoder]

Personally, me reasons are as follows

1. Nero is bloatware of the first order. A full install of all Nero features is over a gigabyte in size. The functionality it offers simply does not warrant that sort of space commitment.

So 1G for audio (including vinyl cleanup and mixing), video (including capture), CD/DVD authoring and burning, DVD and movie player, photo viewer, many more.... is big for you?

2. Nero's quality has steadily declined in all areas pretty much in accordance with it's bloat. The more they have added, the more spread the developers have become, and the worse the produce has got.

Your opinion. I don't see any facts mentioned here.

3. There are simply far better options available at lower costs and smaller footprints. Yes, they are a selection of dedicated programs, and not a combined toolset under a single interface, but each is far better at what it does than Nero's equivalent.

Your opinion again. There are also many great free tools out there also, like linux. I'm not going to give Nero 9 an A+, but it's not nearly the devils tool that you make it out to be.

[guns1inger]

Nero does not burn DVD Videos disc in a compliant manner, Imgburn does. That on it's own makes Nero useless. The video and audio tools that come in the Nero package are of very average quality and do not warrant the amount of disk space required.

I never said anything about a devil, only that Nero is not a good tool, takes up too much space, and is outclassed in every respect by much better options.

Personally, I could care less if you opinion is different to mine, and if therefore you you Nero. If you note, my post actually does open with

Personally, me (sic) reasons are as follows

So I don't see how can take issue with that fact they are opinions. They were never presented as anything else.

[overloaded_ide]

The OP hasn't mentioned anything that is in violation of our rules. Not all torrents are copyrighted. If he is DLing copyrighted videos, then asking for help is a violation.


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Thanks,

Moderator redwudz[/QUOTE]

THANK YOU for that post! However it still need even MORE comments!

"Copyrighted" does NOT mean anything in itself as for downloading! No mater what the source was, copyrighted materials may be FREELY DOWNLOADED if that was the COPYRIGHT holders intent or has consented to!

Most shareware programs and freeware programs etc... ARE copyrighted but Download.com is full of copyrighted programs ready for free download! That is perfectly legal of course!

My point here and what everyone needs to be fighting for is the right to freely share what we own rights too regardless of where we choose to share it!

I have put out a few movie videos on P2P sites and Torrents, LEGAL YES, I own ALL RIGHTS to everything!
Some small music bands in past years have gave me songs they own all rights to and I have put those on such P2P and torrent sites etc... at their request!!
Yes this stuff is copyrighted, we own our own rights and we have the rights to freely share our works!

If some big artist records the songs the songs are copyrighted and we have recourse to demand our fees for each copy sold! My screenplay is copyrighted, if some big studio decides to use my video as a basis of a movie I can sue them as I own all rights!

That does not mean that since the works are copyrighted that we owners cannot uplod them to places like the old Morphues, Kazza, Piratebay, etc... etc... and uploading or seeding etc... our own works is not illegal nor is some users downloading of our copyrighted works illegal since we owners put them up there for that purpose!

It is a shame that so many people do steal copyrighted works when there are so many FREE copyrighted works legally available from the same P2P or torrents!!

Cobra Bob or Cowboy DES ect... are not well known names and difficult to seed for popular downloads, but we have rights also! We have the right to freely share anything we own rights too and therefore P2P and Torrents NEED to be protected!!!

[VegasBud]

MpegEncoder,

So 1G for audio (including vinyl cleanup and mixing), video (including capture), CD/DVD authoring and burning, DVD and movie player, photo viewer, many more.... is big for you?

That sounds pretty big to me. If you also take into consideration that many people have no need for all the included "features", it's frickin' huge.

I'm not sure how to help you with the "facts" part. To be a fact, something has to be consistently true in a specified set of circumstances.

As an example of the difficulty in providing facts, dictionary.com defines bloatware as "software with large, often unused additional features." In my case, where I have no use for any of the many parts of nero, it's entirely bloatware. To someone who only uses nero for burning (it's core function), it's also bloatware, but to a lesser degree. To someone who uses all of nero's functions, frequently, nero is not bloatware at all. As you can see, to one person it's a fact that nero is bloatware, while to another person it's a fact that nero is not bloatware at all. There indeed facts, but since "facts" can change by modifying the set of circumstances, the facts become relative, and are not absolute.

Hopefully, that should help clarify why "facts" (in many cases) are hard to come by, and opinions (such as provided by guns1inger, for example) can be much more useful (in a real-world sort of way).

There is one fact, concerning nero, that I can provide...it should not be used to burn dvd-video disks. I can say that because it is consistently true in the specified set of circumstances. Since the main focus of this site (and the main interest of most of the visitors) is directly connected to dvd-video, it's a fact worth noting.

If you're not familiar with why that is a fact, I provided two posts about it in this thread...one post defining the problem, and one post to detail the procedure to test for (and verify the existence of) the problem.

By the way, I've never heard of any reports concerning a nero-induced demonic computer possession, so it's probably pretty safe to assume nero isn't a "devil's tool".