Busning vlc files to DVD

[manyseed]

I downloaded some stuff that i would like to put on discs to play in a DVD player. The files end with .ISO. I'm not a very literate person with computers, but i did try to download some avi software to try to convert the files and rip them and that didn't work. I hope this makes sense.

[hech54]

vlc files

What?

[redwudz]

Is this a captured or converted video from VLC? If you plan to make a regular DVD, it needs to be in MPEG format, then authored to the DVD specification.
For all this you can use a all-in-one converter: https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/all-in-one-dvd-converters Then burn it with ImgBurn.

It would help greatly to explain what you have and what you want to do with it in more detail.

And welcome to our forums.

[lagaminas]

vlc good player i using it

[redwudz]

If the file is an ISO, then it may be ready to burn to a disc as is. It depends what format the files are within the ISO. ImgBurn can burn a ISO directly to disc. If it's a proper DVD, then you will have your DVD file, ready for a standard DVD player. If it's a Xvid/Divx, then you would end up with one of those. MediaInfo can tell you what the file inside the ISO is.

[Ai Haibara]

What?

One of the things that could possibly be bad about VLC, as I recall, is that if you let it, during the install, it'll try to take all the media filetypes (including AVI, MP4, ISO, etc.) and set them to open in VLC, give them the orange traffic-cone icon. All of those file extensions (yes, including .ISO) will then have a description like "VLC Media File."

Worse, I don't remember if combining that with Windows' default "Hide extensions for known file types" behavior will cause even more problems, at least for .avi and others.

It could be confusing for some, as all they might know about the files is that Windows is telling them it's a "VLC Media File."


(edit: and for some reason, the smileys I set are getting eaten...)